Columbia Broadcasting System, Inc., Collection. 1953 - 1982. Motion Picture Films. 1953 - 1982. What I Saw in Russia

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Columbia Broadcasting System, Inc., Collection. 1953 - 1982. Motion Picture Films. 1953 - 1982. What I Saw in Russia

1959

https://catalog.archives.gov/id/89113

This film includes scenes of Vice President Richard Nixon's trip to Russia and Poland. Nixon discussed his trip with newsman Paul Niven, deplaned in Moscow, greeted Deputy Premier Frol Koslov, and drove to the American Embassy. The footage shows housing developments, women workers, and the Kremlin. Nikita Khrushchev displayed a satellite model and greeted Nixon. Nixon and Khrushchev toured the American National Exhibition, spoke, and offered toasts. Nixon countered hecklers in Leningrad, visited the atomic icebreaker Lenin with Admiral Rickover, toured Novosibirsk and Sverdlovsk, visited a hydroelectric plant and steel mill, spoke over television, and waved to crowds in Warsaw. The film shows close-ups of Russians, vending machines, electric buses and horse carts, primitive housing, hand wells, peasant costumes, a moon rocket poster, and pictures of Lenin and Khrushchev. Mrs. Pat Nixon toured a Young Pioneer's camp. The footage also includes shots of Milton Eisenhower and George Allen.

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