President Truman with Winston Churchill in Fulton, Missouri
View of the parade with President Harry S. Truman and Winston Churchill in limousine in Fulton, Missouri. Churchill was in town to give a speech at Westminster College.
Eric Sevareid interviews Dean Acheson, who talks about current and past issues. Subjects include the Marshall Mission to China; arms negotiations with the Soviet Union; Acheson's advice to Lyndon Johnson on the Vietnam War; the reasons for Truman's support for Israel; Acheson's relations with Truman; Presidents Eisenhower, Nixon, and Kennedy; Dean Rusk, Joseph McCarthy, Alger Hiss; and Acheson's rating of recent world figures.
Newsreel coverage of President Truman's voyage to and from Europe on the USS Augusta, as well as footage of the Potsdam Conference. This film includes most of Mr. Truman's announcement of the dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, August 6, 1945.