Bipartisan congressional leaders are briefed on Indochina prior to Eisenhower and Churchill meeting in Washington DC in June of 1954

Title card: "Churchill, Eisenhower--Big Two Meeting in Washington" / aerial Washington DC and Capitol / spinning globe / high angle British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and US President Dwight Eisenhower walk up to each other on tarmac at Bermuda airport and shake hands in December 1953, military personnel in bkgd / Eisenhower and Churchill seated and talking at Bermuda summit / angled shot White House through tree branches / Republican Sen. Leverett Saltonstall (left) from MA, majority whip of the Senate, and Democratic Rep. John McCormack from MA walking to the White House / Rep. Joe Martin Jr., R-MA and Speaker of the House, and Rep. Leo Elwood (glasses), R-IL and Chairman of the House Rules Committee, exit car and walk to White House / D-TX Rep. and former Speaker of the House Sam Rayburn wearing a fedora walks from car to White House and waves / Secretary of State John Foster Dulles and U.S. Under Secretary of State Walter Bedell Smith (skinny, dark glasses) exit car and walk to White House door / VS R-CA Sen. and Majority Leader William Knowland talks to reporters outside / CU Pan reporters listening to Knowland / Knowland making statement to press on the Geneva Conference on Indochina / Pan Knowland to reporters / SOT Senator and Minority Floor Leader and member of the armed services committee Lyndon Johnson (D-TX) gives statement to the press "It's high time that we and our allies close ranks and that we close our own ranks here at home...We must be Americans first and unite behind some program that is best calculated to preserve a free world" / Note: exact day not known
Title card: "Churchill, Eisenhower--Big Two Meeting in Washington" / aerial Washington DC and Capitol / spinning globe / high angle British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and US President Dwight Eisenhower walk up to each other on tarmac at Bermuda airport and shake hands in December 1953, military personnel in bkgd / Eisenhower and Churchill seated and talking at Bermuda summit / angled shot White House through tree branches / Republican Sen. Leverett Saltonstall (left) from MA, majority whip of the Senate, and Democratic Rep. John McCormack from MA walking to the White House / Rep. Joe Martin Jr., R-MA and Speaker of the House, and Rep. Leo Elwood (glasses), R-IL and Chairman of the House Rules Committee, exit car and walk to White House / D-TX Rep. and former Speaker of the House Sam Rayburn wearing a fedora walks from car to White House and waves / Secretary of State John Foster Dulles and U.S. Under Secretary of State Walter Bedell Smith (skinny, dark glasses) exit car and walk to White House door / VS R-CA Sen. and Majority Leader William Knowland talks to reporters outside / CU Pan reporters listening to Knowland / Knowland making statement to press on the Geneva Conference on Indochina / Pan Knowland to reporters / SOT Senator and Minority Floor Leader and member of the armed services committee Lyndon Johnson (D-TX) gives statement to the press "It's high time that we and our allies close ranks and that we close our own ranks here at home...We must be Americans first and unite behind some program that is best calculated to preserve a free world" / Note: exact day not known
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Editorial #:
1378158278
Collection:
Sherman Grinberg Library
Date created:
01 June, 1954
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Licence type:
Rights-ready
Release info:
Not released. More information
Clip length:
00:01:55:15
Location:
Washington DC, United States
Mastered to:
QuickTime 10-bit ProRes 422 (HQ) HD 1920x1080 23.98p
Originally shot on:
35mm B/W Neg
Source:
Sherman Grinberg Library
Object name:
sr005046_01_04