U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt and Secretary of State Cordell Hull confer in the Summer White House in Warm Springs, Georgia. U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt and Secretary of State Cordell Hull seated on chairs outside the Summer White House in Warm Springs. The officials confer. The officials shake hands and smile. The President signs on the report of the results of London Economic Conference. The Secretary of State seated beside him.
United States Secretary of State Christian Archibald Herter and other Foreign Ministers at Policy conference in Paris. Secretary of State Christian Herter enters the French Foreign Ministry. He talks with the British,French and West German Foreign Minister to establish a common grounds in preparation for their Summit meeting in Geneva.
The Greenbrier Resort at White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia, United States. Flag of Mexico and Red Ensign of Canada flank the U.S. flag at front of the building. President Dwight D. Eisenhower chats with Louis St. Laurent, Prime Minister of Canada, who waves his hat to crowd of spectators standing in cordoned off area. President Eisenhower shakes hands with Mexican President, Adolfo Ruiz Cortines. Secrtetary of State, John Foster Dulles, stands behind President Eisenhower. The three heads of state pose for photographers.
Formations of B-24 Liberator bombers are seen in flight, headed for Ploesti, Romania, on August 1, 1943, during World War 2. Next, vertical columns of bombs are seen falling from the planes. Animated map of Europe shows Romania and Ploesti. It show paths of oil from the Ploesti oil fields to Germany. (Narrator states Ploesti provides 30% of Axis oil.) Map show path of 9th Air Force bombers from Libya to the Ploesti oil fields. Scenes shift to captured German films from 1944, showing the fires and destruction resulting from the constant B-24 raids. Huge black clouds rise from the area. Firefighters rush to combat flames. They direct streams of water on the conflagrations. (Commenter states: "Delayed action bombs prevented firefighters from rushing in, until too late.") Nighttime views of large fires and heavy smoke from 6 of Ploesti's 7 refineries ripped wide open. Film advances to August, 1944, showing Ploesti with the fires out, following Rumania's capitulation. Next, with some fires still burning, King Michael I of Romania, tours the site with military officers. They walk amidst the debris. Smoke rising near a rail marshaling yard. Against a background of dense smoke rising, a Slate is displayed showing the cost to the United States of the Ploesti raids, as 300 bombers and 3000 American airmen were lost.
President of South Vietnam Nguyen Van Thieu during his visit to San Clemente in California, United States. U.S. Marine troops perform a drill during a state ceremony. President Thieu and U.S. President Nixon review honor guards and walk towards a platform. U.S. and South Vietnamese dignitaries watch the honoring ceremony. Marching troops of U.S. Marine band parade and play during the state ceremony. (Vietnam War period).
Tricia Nixon attends a party in her honor before her wedding at the Anderson House in Washington DC. Tricia Nixon and her fiancé, Edward Cox, meets with United States Secretary of State William Pierce Rogers and his wife Adele. Adele Rogers hosts a party for Tricia Nixon at the Anderson House in Washington DC. Guests during the party at the Anderson House. Tricia with guests from the Diplomatic Corps. Tricia receives silverware as a gift from Dean of the Diplomatic Corps, Dr. Guillermo Sevilla-Sacasa (Ambassador of Nicaragua). Some female reporters are also present in the party. United States President Richard Nixon talks about his wishes for his daughter and her future husband. “And I look forward to a time when this will truly be an open world- where they will have the chance to go to your country and all the countries in the world, to know the people of those countries. Because what a wonderful future it is for your children and our children to know each other” President Nixon says during his speech to the Diplomatic Corps on his daughter’s party before her wedding.
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