Major dinner attended by many dignitaries, including Winston Churchill, Cordell Hull, and John Foster Dulles.
Vice President Richard Nixon and his wife, Pat, mingle with officials seeing them off from Washington National Airport, Washington DC, on a trip to Asia. Luggage at the airport. 'Dick Nixon Special' sign on the airplane. Well-wishers with posters and banners stand on the observation deck balcony. One sign reads: "We Love Pat." President Dwight D Eisenhower is personally seeing them off. Mrs. Nixon carries a bouquet of flowers. The Nixons wave goodbye as they board the waiting aircraft.
A map of Connecticut, on which Director Bert Schnikel points regional centers such as Hartford, New Haven and the Seaside Regional Center Waterford, on the Long Island Sound. Mr Fred F Finn, Director of Seaside Center points out the importance of family in a mentally disabled person's life. Volunteers take care of children. A volunteer helps a girl to take medicine. The volunteer strokes the face of the child. And the child makes faces. Children play outside on a tractor ride. People get into a car and the car drives away. Mentally disabled children from Mansfield and Southbury come to "Seaside Regional Center for the Mentally Retarded" to prepare for community life. A boy puts on a television and sits down to watch it. A woman hands things to a girl. Volunteers help children to walk. A mentally disabled girl holds a book in her hands. A postcard sent by a normal sibling of a mentally disabled boy. Children play in snow. A boy sits on a seat while a man bends. A mentally disabled boy plays with his brothers. A couple talks about their mentally disabled child while he sits nearby.
Families of mentally disabled children tell how their children have profited from rehabilitation programs. Snow covered land. A woman tells how her mentally disabled child has benefited after going to Mansfield School. A family in a room. The mother tells about the change in the facilities and attitude for the mentally disabled as awareness about mental disability increases. A mentally disabled boy reads from a book.
Vice President Alben Barkley and members of Congress, including Senator J William Fulbright of Arkansas, pose by the DC-6 Presidential aircraft, the "Independence." Vice President Barkley takes off his hat and waves. Closeup of Senator Fulbright. An officer stands nearby. Members of the party wave their hats as they board the aircraft, which then taxis out for takeoff.
Film starts showing Dwight D. Eisenhower's diploma as honor graduate of the Army Command and Staff School, in 1926. Image of Major Eisenhower (in civilian clothes) Narrator says he was assigned to France, to prepare a guide book on American battlefields in Europe. Image of Eisenhower as a member of General Douglas MacArthur's staff in the Philippines, where MacArthur was Commander-in-Chief of the Philippine army. Glimpse of headquarters building there. MacArthur in his office helping the Commonwealth of Philippines work out a plan for its military defense. Image of Lieutenant Colonel Eisenhower in 1939, serving as Executive Officer of the 15th Regiment, at Fort Lewis, Washington, View of the Regiment's Headquarters building. Scene shifts to 1940, showing German forces invading Holland and Belgium. German tanks are seen in action. German Junkers 87 Stuka dive bombers and Heinkel 111 bombers drop bombs. After passing of the Selective Service draft act, President Franklin D. Roosevelt is seen at a public ceremony on October 29, 1940, where Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson drew from a bowl the capsule containing the first draft number of World War 2. Views of Lt. Col. Eisenhower as Chief of Staff of the Army 3rd Division and later as Chief of Staff of the Ninth Corps. Next, he is seen as Chief of Staff to General Walter Kreuger, who in 1941 led the Third Army in the most realistic maneuvers held by American troops (The Louisiana maneuvers). Views of American troops engaged in those maneuvers. Image of Eisenhower as a Brigadier General. Views of the Pearl Harbor bombing during Japanese attack on December 7, 1941.
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