A biographical documentary shows the life of Dwight David Eisenhower who was the President of the United States from 1953 to 1961. Dwight David Eisenhower and officers salute. Others stand near him. Eisenhower with his wife Marie Geneva Doud “Mamie” Eisenhower attend the birth of their granddaughter, Susan Eisenhower. Eisenhower and his wife coos over baby Susan as her mother Barbara holds her. He walks with his wife. Soldiers holding flags salute. Dwight David Eisenhower in a car salutes them. He sits with a woman. In 1948 he is appointed as the President of Columbia University in New York. He walks with other professors. He is being honored and appointed as the president by other personnel. He addresses the students. In Washington: A plane taxis. Dwight David Eisenhower comes out of a car. Cameramen click pictures. Dwight David Eisenhower wearing a hat stands. He enters a building. He opens his coat. He is greeted by U.S. President Harry S. Truman. The United States Capitol building.
The role of women in in the United States Army. A nurse helps an injured soldier in a hospital. A physiotherapist moves the leg of a soldier. A women dietitian works in the laboratory. View of Congress, on June 1948, during passage of the Women's Armed Services Act. Colonel Mary A. Hallaren being appointed as the first WAC officer in the regular Army of the United States. General George Marshall witnesses the appointment and swears in Sergeant Bates, as the first enlisted woman in the regular Army, as Colonel Hallaren witnesses. Women recruits arrive at WAC processing center by train. They get into a bus. Women enter the WAC training center. They are issued uniforms. Women being taught military matters in open air classrooms. WAC in close order drill, and donning gas masks.
Activities of the people in a rural mining area in the United States during the depression. View of a railroad yard filled with coal cars. Men unloading trucks with sacks. People on the porch outside a house, in what appears to be a coal mining town. A child stands on the stairs. African American children on the roof of a house. Location is likely Appalachian or southern United States.
Activities of the people in rural area in the United States during the Great Depression. Segment of woven fence made of wood. A man makes a table. Man stands in front of the house. Aerial view of the houses. Unemployed men loiter. Men,women and children barter at window of a cooperative store. Woman inside the corporate house writes on a paper. Men seated on ground. Includes mix of white men and women, and African American men and women. Setting appears to be a mining town in the United States South or Appalachian areas.
Precautions taken to prevent diseases in the United States. Milkmen open the lids of milk cans. They work on milk pasteurizing machines. Bacteria free milk is packed in bottles. The milkmen work on the machine. Milkmen open the lids of milk cans and work on milk pasteurizing machines in the United States.
Several scenes of large map of United States of America. Nebraska is outlined and Omaha (Headquarters location of the U.S. Air Force Strategic Air Command (SAC) is highlighted. An arrow points a bold dot representing city of Omaha in Nebraska,United States.
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