Views inside the Strategic Air Command Headquarters Command and Control Center at Offutt Air Force Base, near Omaha, Nebraska. Six huge display screens cover the wall and controllers at monitoring stations are seen in semi-dark environment. An Air force Senior Master Sergeant stands near one of the control stations, as he calls up various computer-driven displays, which are shown onmonitors depicting the distribution and status of SAC's world wide assets at any moment. An Air Force Colonel occupies the Senior Controller's position on the main floor of the Command Post. Camera focuses on the Colonel, and his "fruit salad" (rows of military ribbons); his Command Pilot's wings; and the eagle's on the shoulders of his uniform. Scene shifts to variety of telephones in different colors. Looking over the shoulder of the Colonel, the camera focuses on a gold phone providing a direct line to the President of the United States; the National Military Command Center in Washington, DC; and to other Major Command Headquarters. Red and Gray phones comprise SACs primary alert system and show numerous connections to sites in the 2nd and 15th Air Forces. Closeup of the red phone control board. Scene shifts to a B-52 bomber in flight, and to pilots in a B-52 cockpit. The SAC Senior Controller, Colonel, on the gray phone, ostensibly talking to the B-52 pilots.
A Television Journal titled 'Longines Chronoscope'. Co-editors of the program ask Senator Fulbright about trading with Russia. Fulbright says that there would be no trading with red China i.e. Communist China. Fulbright talks about Senator McCarthy of Wisconsin and the McCarthy subcommittee and the Army-McCarthy hearings. Fulbright says that Senator Joseph McCarthy is "a menace to our system of government. I think he's much more dangerous than most people believe that he is. I think that he is confronting this country with the greatest test that it has had since the war between the states. His approach to the problems of government is quite similar to that of the fascists or communists, if you like. His actions in the present hearings remind me very much of the actions of the communists in the old hearings...in other words it's to obstruct, to take advantage of every technicality to destroy the hearings. And that's what he's intending to do. He's done it in every hearing." He further states, "if this country cannot destroy this senator's influence I see no real future for it because it will undermine the very moral basis for our kind of government." If McCarthy, as a result, is removed from his committe or expelled from the senate, Fulbright says, "then I think there might be a rebirth, I might say, of the enthusiasm of the people for self government in this country." He continues, "I think given the opportunity I think the people of this country will recognize a demagogue such as he is -- well, that's only faith -- I have nothing to base it on other than on a faith in the discrimination of the people of the country."
Debate on the 'Role of Congress in Foreign Policies' between John C Stennis and William J Fulbright in United States organized by the American Enterprise Institute. Senator John C Stennis, Chairman, Armed Service Committee talks on the topic 'Role of Congress in Foreign Policies'. He says that treaties signed previously must be reassessed on new political and economic grounds. He talked about Russian weapons and power. Stennis discussed about the bases of reappraisal of treaties. He said that review and analysis must be done world wide and it must be done with in the congress. He then talked about steps taken by Foreign Relations Committee. He states that it must review weapon system, funding and recommendations for a treaty. Reassessments of treaties must be done in respect to other countries who have signed the treaties. He discusses the basic approach necessary for foreign policies. Stennis talked about Russian Strategic Threat and the work Congress must do in the future.
Activities at Phan Rang Air Force Base,Vietnam. HH-53B helicopter moving on the runway and then taking off. An Air Force official walking towards a building. (Vietnam War period).
101st Air Cavalry Dv. of Operation Somerset Plain. UH-1H flying and landing. U.S. Soldiers unloading the cartons from UH-1H helicopter. African American soldier hoisting a box. Aerial view of fire support base from a mountain can be seen. August 1968. (Vietnam War period).
During the Second Italian-Ethiopian War, General Emilio De Bono arrives at an Italian Air Base. He reviews the troops, and addresses them. General De Bono awards medals to several flyers who then stand as a group for photographs. Ceremony concludes with troops passing in review.
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