Special Consultants, Counselors and assistants of U.S. President Richard Nixon speak about him as President of United States. Richard Nixon with U.S. Secretary of States, Dr Henry Kissinger discuss while walking in the White House. Dr Kissinger talks about his role assigned by Nixon, in the U.S. Air Force One plane. Assistant Patrick J. Buchanan talks about Nixon's efforts to bring peace in Vietnam, Middle-East and People's Republic of China. The secretary during an official government ceremony in China with U.S. and Chinese flags hanging together on a wall. (Vietnam War period).
Crew of United States Air Force B-52D Stratofortress aircraft on the U-Tapao Royal Thai Navy Airfield in Thailand. Buckets of water on pick up truck. Sign on back of pickup truck reads 'Vietnam 100 Missions B-52D'. B-52D aircraft taxis on the airfield. Crew leaves B-52D aircraft. Airmen put buckets on water on airfield. Airmen toss buckets of water on pilot and crew chief. Crew members greet each other. (Vietnam War period).
United States Air Force (USAF ) support for the evacuation of Cambodian refugees from Boung Long, Cambodia during the Vietnam War. A child walks in a field. Cambodian refugees with their children and belongings wait in the field. A USAF C-47 Skytrain taxis in the foreground. Refugees board the C-47 and a C-7A. The refugees and Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN) troops standing. A large crowd of refugees stand near aircraft. A sack of food supply from the United States. A woman feeds milk to her child with a milk bottle. A woman seated beside a pond.
U.S. Air Force C-54 aircraft (Tail number 50-72649) arrives and parks on ramp at Grand Turk Auxiliary U.S. Air Force Base. Commander Shepard, who had just flown from Arguello, California, steps from the aircraft with his belongings. He is there to participate in the Mercury-Atlas 7 post-mission debriefings. He is met by Air force officers and Mercury project personnel.
Opening scene shows large group of retired Air Force officers seated at a number of tables in the Bolling Air Force Base Officers' Club. Closeups of General Carl Spaatz, Lieutenant General Ira Eaker, Lieutenant General James Ferguson (Deputy chief of staff for research and development at Headquarters Air Force), and Major Sidney J. Kubesch (who, in October 1963, was aircraft commander of the B-58 bomber that set a speed record, flying 8,028 miles from Tokyo to London in 8 hours, 35 minutes and 20.4 seconds). Old time aviators, Colonel Harry Halverson and aviation mechanic, Sergeant Roy Hooe, who both flew on the Question Mark, are also seen. Closeup of a model B-58 Hustler bomber sitting on a luncheon table. Closeup of a model of the Fokker C-2A "Question Mark" next to old log book. ( This clip also shows two unidentified women participating in the luncheon.)
General Carl Spaatz, Colonel Harry Halverson, and General Ira Eaker, seat themselves on a couch in the Officer's Club at Bolling Air Force Base, during a gathering of retired Air Force officers celebrating the 35th anniversary of the 1929 record-setting endurance flight by Air Force crews, of the Fokker C-2A airplane named "question mark." Closeup of them conversing. Closeup of aviation mechanic, Sergeant Roy Hooe, who flew on the Question Mark. Major General Brooke Allen (Commander of Headquarters Command at Bolling AFB) holds a model of the "Question Mark" and discusses it with the others. View of the 5 men seated around a cocktail table discussing the 1929 endurance flight.
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