Focus on the 70s - The Nixon Years - PT3
Focus on the 70s - The Nixon Years - PT3
Focus on the 70s - The Nixon Years - PT3: President Richard Nixon visits the communist nations of China and the Soviet Union while the war in Vietnam escalates. Both color & B&W footage included.
Focus on the 70s - The Nixon Years - PT3
Color: Great traveling MS Communist Chinese soldiers pointing & aiming rifles affixed with bayonets at camera. MSs Red Chinese (PRC) soldiers working with quarterstaves & armor. President RICHARD NIXON and First Lady PAT NIXON visiting China, Feb, 1972: MSs First Couple alighting Air Force One, shaking hands with Premier CHOU EN-LAI in Peking; MS Richard Nixon & Chou En-Lai inspecting Red Guard, Chinese troops.
Focus on the 70s - The Nixon Years - PT3
B&W: MSs Richard Nixon meeting, shaking hands with aged Chairman MAO TSE-TUNG (Mao Zedong), Chou En-Lai and National Security Advisor HENRY KISSINGER watching, later sharing a big laugh with Nixon. Color: MS Dick Nixon & Chou En-Lai toasting each other at formal event, newsreel film & video camera abounding; Chou toasts Pat Nixon.
Focus on the 70s - The Nixon Years - PT3
Color: MSs U.S. Marines and South Vietnamese ARVN soldiers fighting NVA forces (these particular shots are actually from Tet offensive in 1968); TLSs American A-1 H Skyraider fighter bombers dumping napalm bombs in Vietnam (phosphorescent flash, explosion); MS body in bodybag; MSs mass of Vietnamese refugees walking along road w/ what little they have left.
Focus on the 70s - The Nixon Years - PT3
Color: Aerials of American naval ships creating a sea blockade, mining Haiphong Harbor, attempting to shut out North Vietnamese supply lines; aerial of CH-53 helicopter in flight. MS Senator GEORGE MCGOVERN (D-SD) talking on phone in office, denouncing Nixon's actions w/out telling Congress (violation of War Powers Act): "Who would have imagined that in May 1972, instead of moving towards an end, the war would have taken another turn towards an even more disastrous escalation." C/as more shots of blockade. "From all indications the President thinks he can take a step like that w/out so much as a glance at Capitol Hill. He's behaving more like a king acting from divine right than the leader of free society."
Focus on the 70s - The Nixon Years - PT3
Color: TLS US Army infantry unit deploying from Huey helicopter in Vietnam; MSs soldiers engaged in combat in jungles & fields; advancing, firing M-16 and M-60 guns; firing mortars; TLSs Hueys landing in field, infantry soldiers deploying.
Focus on the 70s - The Nixon Years - PT3
President RICHARD NIXON visits the Soviet Union, May 1972: TLS Nixon walking with Premier ALEXEI KOSYGIN; TLS Nixon inspecting Red Guard; MS Nixon & Secretary of State William Rogers meeting, talking, drinking champagne with Soviet General Secretary LEONID BREZHNEV & Alexei Kosygin; TLS Nixon & Kosygin reviewing marching Soviet troops.