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U.S. President Richard Nixon during his meetings with various world leaders and during his historic trips to Romania and China.

United States President Richard Nixon boards the U.S. Air Force One aircraft for his visit to countries of South East Asia. Nixon's motorcade on roads and Nixon during meeting with leaders of countries like Indonesia, Philippines and others. Nixon's helicopter lands and he debarks for a meeting with British Prime Minister. Nixon during meeting with Canadian Prime Minister Trudeau, Israeli Prime Minister Meir, and Japanese Prime Minister Sato (Satō). Nixon during meeting with Pope Paul VI in Italy. Nixon walking with French President Pompidou in the Azores. President Nixon and First Lady on their tour to communist Romania in 1969. Nixon on his historic tour to People's Republic of China meets its leaders Zhou Enlai and Mao Zedong. President Nixon and dignitaries visit the Great Wall of China. President Nixon and Henry Kissinger meet and confer with Mao and Zhou Enlai. From a pro-Nixon "documentary" called "The Nixon Years: Change Without Chaos" covering President Richard Nixon's first four years in office. Released during his 1972 reelection campaign.

Date: 1972
Duration: 4 min 23 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675056804
U.S. Chemical Warfare Service trains troops to become accustomed to wearing gas masks during regular duties in World War I.

U.S. Chemical Warfare Service. U.S. soldier is wearied after exercise wearing gas mask . He is tired and sits besides tree after 15 minutes of exercise. He takes off his gas mask and lights a cigarette. In contrast, a company of soldiers returning from a five mile hike in gas masks show no undue weariness.They remove their helmets and masks and appear fine. A platoon commander inspects his troops wearing gas maskes, prior to entering a gas chamber for training.

Date: 1917
Duration: 3 min 35 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675057556
Chemical Warfare Service training. U.S. Army division in live fire chemical warfare maneuvers. Encounter windborne gas; gas shell

Chemical Warfare Service training of U.S. Army trains in the United States during World War I. American Army soldiers wearing gas masks attempt to identify chemical agents as they are discharged on a field. The Division is deployed in trucks and on foot. Soldiers move forward in a line around a hil and along a muddy road. Soldiers lying in foxholes as cloud of gas approaches. One soldier swings a gas alarm ringer round and round to alert everyone. Other soldiers immediately don their gas masks. Later wind conditions allow them to rest. But the enemy fires gas shells into their midst anyway. So they must don gas masks again. A patrol goes out and encounters mustard gas. They check wind to avoid contact with it and move upwind.

Date: 1917
Duration: 4 min 49 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675057560
Role of Air Transport Command and increase in naval power of the U.S. during World War II.

Animation depicts the role of Air Transport Command during World War II. A man brushes his teeth. A globe depicts Air Transport Command aircraft flying around the world. Animation depicts Chinese war effort against the Japanese and the amount earned by a Chinese soldier. U.S. Naval Fleet at the beginning of the war. U.S. Naval Fleet after a 14 fold increase in number of ships during the war.

Date: 1944
Duration: 1 min 52 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675057709
The FBI arrests eight Nazi German spies after they landed off the coast of the United States (WW2)

Nazi German spies attempting sabotage are caught in the United States during World War II. A sign on a building reads 'Federal Bureau of Investigation'. An official at a desk inside an office. A submarine underway at sea as a crew member looks through a periscope. Pictures of Nazi German would-be saboteurs caught by Coast Guard personnel and apprehended by the FBI after they landed near the coasts of Amagansett, Long Island and Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida. (This was Operation Pastorius which disrupted a Nazi German sabotage plot on U.S. soil in 1942.)

Date: 1942, June 27
Duration: 1 min 1 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675057751
Joseph Kennedy proposes a plan to build new merchant ships to replace ships like the Leviathan in the United States.

A vast ship building program to be undertaken by the Maritime Commission in the United States. The newly appointed Chairman of the Maritime Commission Joseph P. Kennedy, speaks on the proposed plan to build new merchant ships. He emphasizes the necessity for a complete refurbishing of the Merchant Marine. Outmoded merchant ships built during World War I. Several ships docked at the New York harbor. People cheer and wave as the new ocean liner SS Rex sets sail. Flagship of the United States Line, the Leviathan, in dry dock. The British ocean liner Queen Mary leaves for Europe. Foreign merchant ships entering and leaving the harbor.

Date: 1937
Duration: 2 min 22 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675057825