Desron (Destroyer Squadron) 20 returns from Vietnam. At a shipyard in Newport, Rhode Island a sign reads 'Desron 20, Families and Friends Welcome Aboard Arcadia'. A refreshment table with cakes and dough nuts. An eight years old boy in a sailer suit is offered some refreshments. Children around the refreshment table. The boy has some coffee and cake. A young mother with a small child in her arms. A navy band plays on the pier. Dependents look on in the background. Dependents on the pier. Many of the dependents behind a roped off area. A woman is being interviewed by one of the radio or TV stations. Another DD approaches in the mid back for tying up. A man holding a small child waves. A part of the USS Arcadia seen in the background. Bow view of the USS Charles P Cecil approaching the pier. Line handlers haul a hawser towards a bollard in the mid foreground. They put a bow line around the bollard. Dependents behind the roped off area. An officer in a blue uniform. Smiling faces of the women dependents as the ship is tied up.
Desron (Destroyer Squadron) 20 returns from Vietnam. People at a shipyard in Newport, Rhode Island. A sailor holding a small girl on his shoulder waves. Many dependents in the background behind the roped off area. A sailor embraces his wife after his arrival. The dependents jam a gangway to board one of the ships. A woman talks to a young sailor. Reunions take place aboard one of the ships. The dependents board one of the ship's unident. Two women talk with a sailor in dungarees. Ships tied up in the background. A young child with a large dough nut walks along the pier Naval personnel depart their ship with souvenirs. Naval personnel and crewmen from one of DD depart the ship over the brow. A RADM (Rear Admiral) stands at a podium on the pier and addresses the crowd. People in the background. The dependents approach the pier with their husbands. Men and their dependents depart one of the ships. A sailor holding his young child in his arms walks with his wife. Other people walk down the pier in the background. A small group of dependents stands on a pier next to one of the destroyers.
U.S. Navy RA-5C Vigilante and F-4B Phantom II aircraft parked on port side of flight deck on an aircraft carrier underway in the South China Sea, during the Vietnam War. Crewmen stand near the aircraft on the flight deck. RA-5C Vigilante taxis out from parking area.
President of South Vietnam Nguyen Van Thieu during his visit to San Clemente in California, United States. President Nixon, the First Lady Patricia, President Thieu and his wife sit for a luncheon at a poolside. Flowers and plants in the garden. Mrs. Nixon and Mrs. Thieu take their lunch at a poolside table. U.S. Secretary of State Dr. Kissinger talks to a South Vietnamese official at another table. Other dignitaries on dining tables. President Thieu stands and speaks at the dinner followed by President Nixon. Other people at the luncheon watch President Nixon as he speaks.
President of South Vietnam Nguyen Van Thieu during his visit to San Clemente in California, United States. After a garden luncheon President Nixon, the First Lady Patricia, President Thieu and Mrs. Thieu walk towards the speech site for the final communique. U.S. and Vietnamese dignitaries talk to each other after the dinner. The dignitaries walk out of the residence. President Nixon and other American officers bid goodbye to President Thieu. Thieu sits in his limousine and the President turns and walks inside the residence.
President of South Vietnam Nguyen Van Thieu during his visit to San Clemente in California, United States. Mrs. Thieu talks with American and Vietnamese dignitaries standing on a poolside before a garden luncheon. President Nixon, the First Lady Patricia, President Thieu and Mrs. Thieu walk towards the lunch table at the poolside.
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