U.S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's inaugural parade in Washington DC, United States. People gather on either sides of a street. The U.S. Capitol in the far foreground. Buildings along street sides. A motorcade moves past. Horse-drawn units move past. Troops march. People cheer. A military band marches. Horse-drawn units towing artillery move past. Soldiers aboard scout cars moving past. (World War II period).
United States Army General John J Pershing addresses the nation from Washington DC, United States during World War II. General Pershing seated at a desk in his office. He urges the nation to help the Allies. He says that the Allies are fighting a war for civilization. He urges the country to send unlimited supply of airplanes, arms and ammunition to the Allies.
Midshipmen of the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland. A large crowd gathers at a port. The middies standing along with other people. A midshipman talks to two girls. The middies aboard boats. A boat underway at sea. Ships in the background. The middies embark on battleships for their summer cruise.
U.S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt addresses graduates of the class of 1940 at the University of Virginia, before the U.S. entrance into World War II. Speaking in Memorial Gymnasium, the President speaks into a microphone and addresses the University community and graduates, including his son Franklin Roosevelt Jr., who was graduating with a law degree. He speaks about the United States' decision to aid the Allies by extending to them the material resources of the United States in the war. He says that the U.S. took the decision after Italian Government's back-stab decision to engage in the war, after having earlier worked for the preservation of peace in the Mediterranean area. (Roosevelt had learned that morning of Italy's declaration of war on France.)
U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert Strange McNamara leaves the office in the United States. Honor guards stand in formation. U.S. President Lyndon Baines Johnson, U.S. Army General Earle Gilmore Wheeler and Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Henry Nitze on a review stand. President Johnson and other officials get down from the reviewing stand and arrive near soldiers. The honor guards stand in formation. Cameramen record the event.
U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert Strange McNamara leaves the office in the United States. President Lyndon Baines Johnson, Secretary McNamara and Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Henry Nitze on a review stand. U.S. Army General Earle Gilmore Wheeler speaks into a microphone. President Johnson speaks after General Wheeler. The President speaking into the microphone. Secretary McNamara stands behind the President. The President ends the speech. People applaud.
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