American country music singer Merle Haggard performs at the White House in Washington DC, United States for U.S. President Richard Nixon and his family on March 17, 1973. Merle Haggard performs for the Nixon Family. President Nixon, the First Lady of the United States Pat Nixon, her daughters Tricia Nixon Cox and Julie Nixon Eisenhower and her sons in law Edward F. Cox and David Eisenhower seated. Merle Haggard sings 'Fightin' Side of Me'.
Singers perform at the White House in Washington DC, United States for U.S. President Richard Nixon and his family on March 17, 1973. Merle Haggard performs for the Nixon Family. President Nixon, the First Lady of the United States Pat Nixon, her daughters Tricia Nixon Cox and Julie Nixon Eisenhower and her sons in law Edward F. Cox and David Eisenhower seated and applauding after the performance. Merle Haggard thanks the audience and reads out few words for Mrs. Nixon. President Nixon and wife Pat Nixon walk up the stage to thank Merle Haggard and the Osborne Brothers for their performance. President Nixon speaks a few words into a microphone. President Nixon and wife Pat Nixon shake hands with the performers before leaving the stage.
A political advertisement from the Nixon campaign or Republican party during the 1968 Presidential election campaign portrays Democratic party challenger Hubert Humphrey in a negative light. Still images show Democratic presidential nominee Hubert Humphrey at the party's convention in Chicago, Illinois. Riots in the United States following assassinations of prominent leader in the African American civil rights movement, Martin Luther King, Jr., and Senator from New York Robert F. Kennedy, in 1968. U.S. soldiers battling the enemy in Vietnam during the Vietnam War. A picture depicting poverty shows a poor family. Images of Humphrey are interspersed throughout, portraying him as disconnected from the issues of the day.
U.S. President Richard Nixon addresses the nation from the Oval Office of the White House in Washington DC, United States. President Nixon says that lack of energy supplies would bring temporary shortages in fuel supplies and some increase in fuel prices. He says that if energy resources were properly developed they could fulfill American energy requirements for centuries. He says that his administration was going to end quantitative controls on oil imports and establish a national energy office in the United States. He talks about increasing the ability of the United States to prevent oil spills. The President proposes that the Congress should remove government regulations which discouraged the growth of domestic natural gas industry. Secondly, the Congress should help to establish research and ground work for developing new forms of energy for a long range future (alternate sources of energy). Thirdly, the Congress should permit the licensing of new deep water ports to open the way for long delayed Alaska oil pipeline.
Clip shows opening slate and contains audio only. No visual images. U.S. President Richard Nixon at a photo opportunity with the Boy Scouts of America (BSA) in Washington DC, United States on 21st February, 1974. A boy scout speaks about the activities of the boy scouts in the recent years. President Richard Nixon is presented with a collection of coins. President Nixon speaks during the occasion. He speaks about character building, boy scouts joining the armed forces and progress of the boy scouts. He thanks the boy scouts for the honor and for the invitation to their Jamboree and regrets that he cannot attend, but says he is glad he does not have to go on a 50 mile hike. He invites them on a tour of the White House.
Telephone conversation between U.S. President Richard Nixon and the astronauts of Apollo 11, while they are on the moon, July 20th, 1969. President Nixon seated at a desk in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington DC, United States. Technicians setting up video cameras. Nixon talks over a phone. Men setting up a monitor screen. Flickering moving images of the astronauts beside the Lunar Lander, on the surface of the moon. A camera focuses in on a document titled: DRAFT 'Talk to men on the moon' on the desk. The opening sentence reads: "This is an epic day in the history of man." A split image on the screen shows President Nixon talking and the astronauts on the moon. President Nixon talking to an astronaut on a phone at his desk in the Oval Office. Picture of "Earthrise" as seen from the moon, on wall in the Oval Office. NASA Astronaut, Frank Borman,who commanded the Apollo 8 mission,in 1968, comes before the cameras in the White House and makes speaks on behalf of NASA astronauts involved in the Apollo missions.
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