Development works under the Works Progress Administration (WPA) Projects in Missouri, United States. A Missouri farmer uses an ancient divining rod to search for underground water. Geological survey of underground water by experts, under WPA project during the Great Depression. Survey machines and experts work in a field to test the availability of underground water in the field. equipment drill tube wells. Experts in a laboratory test the minerals and salts in available water. Public health improvement works in St Louis. Construction and repairs of sewers by workers. New built homes in the area.
A news presenter speaks about President Johnson's assuming office under strained times. An excerpt from a file interview with the then Vice President Lyndon Johnson follows. Lyndon Johnson talks about his childhood, his school and college life. He reveals that it was his childhood ambition to become a Senator. His father was a public representative which created his interest in public life and politics. He also talks about his experience as a Vice President of United States.
Views of United States Army cadets graduating with wings and receiving diplomas at Maxwell Field. New pilot officers of the U.S. Army Air Force are seen near aircraft on airfield, together with women guests at the ceremony. Group of AT-6A training aircraft parked at airfield.
Relocation of Nisei people in United States during World War 2. Japanese Americans arrive at the Manzanar relocation center (internment camp). Family members exit a bus. A young boy looking unsure as he observes the camp. New internees undergo medical examination. They participate in Americanization classes. They train themselves in self government. Block leaders are presented citations at a meeting. Japanese-American children internees are looked after in day care centers as men and women go to work. Young boys and girls seated at a table. Internees at Manzanar working in an experimental laboratory house for extracting rubber from guayule shrubs to increase rubber production during the war. Japanese American internees working in cultivating the guayule shrub. View of a project at the Parker camp where internees were working to irrigate desert land. View of sugar beet fields where internees could work. View of Manzanar war relocation center with mountains behind. War time propaganda narrator promotes the relocation centers as "setting a standard for the rest of the world in the treatment of people who may have loyalties to an enemy nation. We are protecting ourselves without violating the principles of Christian decency."
A map shows pipeline network for the transportation of oil and its by-products in the United States, largely for the war effort during World War 2. Shows the laying of the Big Inch petroleum pipelines in Arkansas, Texas, and other locations. Tractors and explosives being used to clear the ground for laying the pipelines. Oil pipeline being laid across a river bed. A welder welds the joints. Pipelines being laid in trenches. Men operate valves to turn on the flow of oil in the new Big Inch pipeline. High octane aviation gas is filled in an aircraft at an airfield. Soldiers fill gas cans all lined up in a lot. An oil tanker in the background. Troops load gasoline jerrycans on trucks. B-17, B-26, and B-24 Bomber aircraft in refueling operations on various airfields. B-17 taking off and formation of aircraft in flight. Long lines of jerry cans being filled with gasoline by personnel near a railroad track. Close up view of gasoline dispensing nozzle in top of Jerry Can and a hand opening the next jerry can in line. Jerry cans loaded into trucks, transported, and unloaded by U.S. Army soldiers. Motor oil being poured into funnels for use in vehicles. Narrator declares, "Oil for freedom. American oil. The blood of the mechanized legion!" A formation of tanks and military vehicles move along a wide field. Narrator encourages sacrifice of American people giving up home comforts of goods and fuels made from oil so that they can be directed to the war effort.
Presidential candidate Richard Nixon appears in front of a panel in a television program, Michigan, United States. The television program is named 'Man in the arena'. A panel sits in the center of the studio. The panel of citizens consists of a columnist, a news editor, a man from a community center, a housewife, a student, a dermatologist and a Public Relation Counsel. Audience seated in the studio. Bud Wilkinson acts as a moderator. Audience applauds Richard Nixon as he enters the arena. Richard Nixon introduces George Romney, Governor of Michigan and his wife. Nixon also introduces his wife and two daughters. Judd Arnett asks him about his program plans. Nixon answers that he will start programs for jobs, tax credit to private enterprises and houses for citizens.
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