The U.S. Capitol in Washington D.C., United States.Two young men, selected from each U.S. State, participate in the American Legion "Boy's Nation" activities in Washington, DC. They are assembled on the Capitol steps to pose for pictures. Several of the young men shake hands with a welcoming official. They talk and laugh.They wave, collectively for cameras and then ascend the steps.
A mob, seeking revenge against Fascist leaders, fills a city square. They pound on steel gates of a government building. Soldiers and police attempt to protect various persons from the mobs. Others are unprotected and suffer beatings and death. Bodies of Benito Mussolini and his Mistress Clara Petacci are seen hung upside down by Italian Partisans in Milan, Italy, on 28 April 1945. Scene shifts to image of postwar occupying powers, United States, Soviet Union, and Great Britain, whose flags are displayed in the center of a conference table during the Third Moscow Conference. Principals signing agreements, in November, 1943, providing, among other things, for lawful and orderly trials of war criminals, following World War 2. Seen signing are: Soviet Foreign Minister Vyacheslav Mikhailovich Molotov; U.S. Secretary of State, Cordell Hull; and British foreign Secretary, Sir Anthony Eden. View of General Dwight D. Eisenhower, leading a contingent of American wartime Generals on a mission to document Nazi atrocities at liberated German concentration camps. Closeup of a man directing local German citizens who were forced to observe the horrors of the camp. Closeup of an oven used to dispose of bodies of victims. Dead bodies of concentration camp victims strewn in a heap. A room filled with documentary evidence to be analyzed and used in war crimes trials. the body of German General Admiral Hans-Georg von Friedeburg , and of Heinrich Himmler, both of whom committed suicide. A hand holding cyanide capsules. Body of Leipzig City Council deputy mayor Dr. Ernst Kurt Lisso slumped over his desk, following suicide. Body of his daughter, Regina Lisso also a suicide victim. Nazi war criminals being rounded up by Allied military.One being carried on a stretcher. Another, a German officer, is taken into custody. Next, Josef Kramer, the Commandant of Bergen-Belsen concentration camp is seen under guard by a British soldier. British soldiers guarding the court room of the second Belsen trial, convened by the Allied occupational forces, in the Gymnasium building of Luneburg. View of the courtroom with defendants wearing numbers. Closeup of numbers 1 and 2, Josef Kramer, and Fritz Klein, respectively. View of Allied military officers sitting in judgment. Closeups of women defendants, including Irma Grese (number 9) and Elisabeth Volkenrath (number 11). Camera pans around the courtroom.
A U.S. Army documentary about the spreading threats of communists and communism versus the American way of life in the United States. Soldiers and band parade on a main street in Ottumwa, Iowa, in remembrance of Veterans on Veterans Day. The Eagles state champion drill team. Veterans of wars march. The Sears store and the C.E. Crons Company store visible. Town's people of all ages stand by the sides of road and watch the parade. A troop of Boy Scouts carries a large American flag down the street. In Central Park, U.S. Military senior officers lay wreath and pay homage to the veterans who fought for American freedom. Soldiers fire rifles in their honor. The monument with an eagle atop and inscription "To Heroic Sons." The memorial service. A planning meeting of the Town Council underway.
The motorcade of President Nixon on the roads of Moscow, Russia, Soviet Union during his visit there. Posters of Vladimir Lenin along the roads and streets of Moscow. Soviet Premiere Leonid Brezhnev and other leaders welcome Nixon and other delegates. Dignitaries, including Nixon, Brezhnev, and Gorbachev, during a state dinner. Various agreements signed during the visit, including one to sell grain to the USSR. Shots of a combine harvesting wheat in the United States. Nixon and Dr. Henry Kissinger confer at the White House. Nixon and Brezhnev sign the Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty to limit nuclear arms on May 26. The President addresses directly the people of the Soviet Union on May 28. Footage shows Nixon laying a wreath at the cemetery for the dead from the siege of Leningrad during World War 2. Various shots of young Soviets as Nixon explains the story of Tanya Savicheva, a 12 year old girl who kept a diary describing the siege of Leningrad. A photo of Tanya is seen. The U.S. Congress welcomes and cheers for President Nixon. From a pro-Nixon "documentary" called "The Nixon Years: Change Without Chaos" covering President Richard Nixon's first four years in office. Released during his 1972 reelection campaign.
President of South Vietnam Nguyen Van Thieu during his visit to San Clemente in California, United States. President Nixon, the First Lady Patricia, President Thieu and his wife sit for a luncheon at a poolside. Flowers and plants in the garden. Mrs. Nixon and Mrs. Thieu take their lunch at a poolside table. U.S. Secretary of State Dr. Kissinger talks to a South Vietnamese official at another table. Other dignitaries on dining tables. President Thieu stands and speaks at the dinner followed by President Nixon. Other people at the luncheon watch President Nixon as he speaks.
U.S. President Richard Nixon addresses U.S. citizens on the Watergate scandal in Washington, DC. The President questions upon the occurrence of the Watergate scandal and whom should one blame. He finds 1972 as the year of crucially important decisions, of intense negotiations and of new directions in achieving goals for bringing peace to United States. He states that the Presidency stands before politics. He has limited his appearances in campaigns. He believes that the culprits must bear the liability and pay the penalty. He finds it cowardly to blame his sub-ordinates, to whom he had delegated the responsibility, for the improper actions that took place within his campaign organization. Instead he accepts all the charges as he believes that the man at the top of an organization is the one who is responsible for all. The President takes a pledge to ensure a fair justice in the Watergate scandal.
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