U.S. Army Airborne soldiers undergo a training in the United States. An instructor briefs the soldiers on the training mission. The soldiers board U.S. Air Force C-130 aircraft with their parachutes. The aircraft taxi and take off. The instructor gives last minute instructions. Paratroopers jump from the aircraft in flight and descend on the ground.
American military servicemen are kept informed through newspaper and radio telecasts in the United States. A U.S. military man operates a reel-to-reel tape machine in a studio and records the interview of an officer. Printing of Stars and Stripes newspaper on a printing press. Army soldiers viewing the newspaper. Closeup of newspaper headline, "Nixon would bar the lazy from welfare 'trough'." A truck loaded with bundles of newspaper moves through streets. Soldiers aboard a ship underway at sea read a newspaper. Close-up view of soldier viewing a large advertisement in the paper featuring a woman dressed in a bikini bathing suit. U.S. Army soldiers in a tent listen to a portable radio while one soldier shaves. A man operates a recording device at a American Forces Radio and Television Station. American military soldiers watch television shows on televisions in a common area. Newspaper editors and reporters discuss news material in a journalist office. Broadcast technical specialists operate devices at a station.
Presidential election debate held between Democratic nominee Senator John F. Kennedy and Republican nominee U.S. Vice President Richard Nixon in the United States. NBC correspondent Frank McGee asks Senator Kennedy if he considers twenty-seven and a half per cent oil depletion allowance inequitable. Senator Kennedy responds stating that there are many commodities and minerals that have some kind of depletion allowance including oil and no one should get a tax break on the same. He says that if he is elected the president, the whole spectrum of tax will be gone through carefully. ABC correspondent Bill Shadel asks Vice President Richard Nixon to speak on the topic. Vice President Nixon says he favors the present depletion allowance. He further says that if there is no depletion allowance oil exploration will be cut substantially in the United States.
United States Senator from Minnesota, and former Vice President, Hubert Humphrey, records a speech related to the U.S. Presidential election campaign of 1972 in the United States.
Self-portrait of Richard Nixon aired during his 1968 presidential run against Hubert Humphrey and George Wallace in the United States. Pictures showing young Richard Nixon and his old home. An interviewer asks him about the period when he enlisted in the U.S. Navy. A 1945 picture of U.S. Navy Lieutenant Commander Richard Nixon. He speaks about his views about the problems the nation confronted in World War II.
U.S. Secretary of State James F. Byrnes in the United States reports about a London meeting He speaks at his desk and says that the first session of the council of foreign ministers closed in a stalemate in London, England. But that need not and should not deprive them of a second and better chance to get on with peace. The foreign minister of the Soviet Union has not rejected proposal of the United States for a peace conference. Byrnes says that Soviet government will agree that the all the nations that fought the World War II shall have a chance to make world peace. This has been a people's war and it must be a people's peace.
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