United States President Richard Nixon and First Lady Pat Nixon on tour to Indonesia. President Nixon and the First Lady welcomed at Jakarta by General Suharto (successor to President Sukarno) and other dignitaries at the Merdeka Palace (Jalan Medan Merdeka Utara, Jakarta Pusat, Daerah Khusus Ibukota Jakarta). A chandelier lit up inside the palace. The dignitaries walk through a palace. Workers and housekeepers of the palace. President Nixon, General Suharto, Lady Nixon and others at a conference hall. Suharto and Nixon talk with each other.
United States President Richard Nixon and First Lady Pat Nixon on tour to Thailand. U.S. National flag and Thai flag at a government building. President Nixon's motorcade on the roads. Posters and cutouts of President on buildings and on the roads. Thai buildings and houses. Cavaliers salute the President. President arrives at the government building. He is greeted and welcomed by the Thai dignitaries and officials.
Nellie Tayloe Ross, the 28th Director of the Mint, and Employees at the United States Mint, Department of Treasury oversee the first shipment of government gold from the U.S. Mint in Philadelphia to the U.S. Bullion Depository at Fort Knox, Kentucky. Clip shows casting and weighing of government gold, at the U.S. Mint facility in Philadelphia Pennsylvania. Nellie Tayloe Ross seen speaking and seated at a desk with other officials nearby. Mint officials check the quality and dimensions of a cast gold bar to be transported to Fort Knox in Kentucky. Gold molded into bars by ram machines. Nellie Tayloe Ross signs papers. Molding machines and employees at work. Molten gold in a kiln. Man casts it into gold bars. Officials and armed guards keep an eye on the process. Gold bars are placed on one side of a large scale and weighed. Exterior view of the U.S. Mint department building in Philadelphia. View is of the third U.S. Mint building in Philadelphia, North facade, facing Spring Garden Street (building later owned by the Community College of Philadelphia, as of 1973). Late 1930's automobiles seen passing by the U.S. Mint on Spring Garden Street.
Citizens Military Training Camp in East Lynn, Massachusetts. Maneuvers of a frontier held for State governors and executives. Enemy aircrafts attack during the maneuvers. Anti-aircraft gun mounted on a jeep fires following the course of enemy planes. Fighter planes in air. Single old type of tank moves in battlefield and fires. Regiment of soldiers march on Parade ground, as military officials and governors stand on reviewing stands.
Garden Party for United States soldiers at White House, Washington DC. Troops stand in files. President Franklin Roosevelt addresses the soldiers. Mrs Eleanor Roosevelt talks to soldiers. Women at the Garden Party. Soldiers talk to a woman. The White House during the Party. (World War II period).
United States Marine Corps unload warfare equipment and material to resupply a unit engaged in a sweep mission, in Vietnam. A Marine UH-34 helicopter lands on a rugged hill in a demilitarized zone. Marines unload wooden boxes containing 'C' rations and fresh water supply from it. The helicopter takes off and flies away. (Vietnam War period).
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