| PRESIDENT KENNEDY ADDRESSED NATO CHIEFS President Kennedy pledges his support to NATO | ||
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| This clip is not available for streaming at this time. Please contact WPA. | Tape Master: | 8766 |
| Catalog #: | 238231 | |
| Clip Number: | 238231-1 | |
| Orginal Film: | UN 3473 D | |
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| Location: | Washington DC | |
| Year Shot: | 1961 (Actual Year) | |
| Audio: | Yes | |
| Color: | No | |
| Headings: | INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS: NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) | |
| Description: | PRESIDENT KENNEDY ADDRESSED NATO CHIEFS aka CAMERA ON THE PRESIDENT President Kennedy pledges his support to NATO. United States President John F. Kennedy addressing NATO Chiefs of Staff and Lord Louis Mountbatten. "Camera on the President" Edited remarks at the Opening Session of the Meeting of the Military Committee of NATO. April 10, 1961 Washington DC LS MS Service guard outside the State Department in Washington. Various interio shots of the military committee in session showing delegates from various countries. LS Military VIPs seated. LS MS President John F. Kennedy on platform with Lord Louis Mountbatten seated on his left. Kennedy starts to speak, "In addition to strengthened conventional forces, we believe that NATO must continue to have an effective nuclear capability. We hope to consult closely with our allies on the precise forms which the nuclear deterrent should take in future years. ... NATO has kept the peace of Europe and the Atlantic through 12 dangerous years, and in that time our community has grown in strength and in wellbeing. This is no small accomplishment. I offer to you, and through you to all of NATO's armed forces, the thanks and congratulations of the people and the Government of the United States of America. Let us continue from this bright past to a future which offers us the high task of guarding a free community's peace, and its security, and its freedom. Thank you." At the end of the speech Mountbatten stands up shakes the President's hand and says, "Thank you very much." | |
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