Leonid Brezhnev, General Secretary, Communist Party of the Soviet Union, visits United States and meets with U.S. President Richard Nixon. An airman stands near a helicopter at a base in Camp David, Maryland. Motorcade of dignitaries arrives. Secretary Rogers and Kosygin followed by other staff members walk towards the helicopter. They board the helicopter as servicemen salute them. The helicopter takes off.
U.S. President Nixon addresses the Mississippi Economic Council silver anniversary meeting in Jackson, Mississippi. President Nixon from speaker's podium in the Coliseum speaks about economic growth of United States. He compares United States economy with other nations like Italy, Great Britain, Germany, France and Soviet Union. He details problems of economy like inflation and energy crisis. He insists on sound government policies and more production to control inflation. Spectators listen to him carefully and applaud his remarks. Officials attending included Governor William Waller, Senator Jim Eastland, Senator John Stennis, and Mississippi congressmen.
During his resignation speech, President Nixon from the Oval Office in White House speaks about his tenure as a President during last five and a half years. He lists some of nation's achievements under his tenure. He mentions peace efforts with People's Republic of China and Middle East. He speaks about treaty of limiting nuclear arms with Soviet Union.
The beginning of the Korean War with the invasion of South Korea by North Korean troops. ROK (Republic of Korea) troops in trenches and at sandbagged positions on the 38th Parallel. John Foster Dulles, Consultant to the U.S. Secretary of State, visits the front areas and converses with an officer at a map. Dulles standing with ROK (Republic of Korea) troops. South Korean refugees fleeing. United Nations Security Council's meeting in progress. The empty chair of the delegate from the Soviet Union. Secretary General of the United Nations Trygve Lie speaks. The Security Council passes a resolution calling for cease fire.
Andrei Gromyko of Soviet Union walks out of a meeting of Security Council on Iranian question in New York, United States. Representatives of 16 nations meet to implement the European Recovery Plan in Paris.
Nazi leaders tried for war crimes during Nuremberg trials in Germany. Justice Kravechenko of Soviet Union reads a statement from a bench. Prisoner's dock and courtroom as Sir Geoferry Lawrence speaks about Schutzstaffel, slave labor and experiments on human beings. The Tribunal adjourns and people stand to leave. Erich Raeder, Fritz Sauckel, Rudolf Hess, Hermann Goering, Joachim Von Ribbentrop in prisoner's dock. The Tribunal resumes again, the following day.
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