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Want to support this channel and help us preserve old films? Visit Browse our products on Amazon: This black & white educational film, one of the syndicated “March of Time“ TV show episodes, is about the incoming President Eisenhower and his new cabinet. This was made in late 1952 or early 1953. Opening titles: The March of Time. The US Capitol building. Our host talks to the camera, Mr. Westbrook Van Voorhis. Blank commercial slate. The March of Time: The Men Around Eisenhower (:09-1:13). The office next to the oval office inside the white house. Title: 1789. Painting of George Washington and his cabinet. Title: 1861. Painting of Abraham Lincoln and his cabinet. President Taft watches troops march. Charles Evan Hughes, later Chief justice of the USA. Herbert Hoover, a future president, drives in his car, exits and walks away. Henry Stimson, a member of different cabinets and future secretary of war. Secretary of the Navy on a door (1:14-3:38). Frank Knox talks. Title: 1945. Harry Truman and his cabinet have a meeting. Title card: 1953. Battleship, USS Helena. A helicopter lands on the ship. Eisenhower and his team. The office next to the oval office inside the white house. President Eisenhower talks to the american public via a camera (3:39-6:23). Chair at a desk. Secretary of state for Eisenhower talks, his name is John Foster Dulles. A Republican, he served as United States Secretary of State under President Dwight D. Eisenhower from 1953 to 1959. New York City shot. President Eisenhower. George M. Humphrey, secretary of the treasury, talks to the camera. Painting of him as a horseman. George M. Humphrey sits with his wife. Secretary of Defense, Charles Erwin Wilson served as United States Secretary of Defense from 1953 to 1957 under President Dwight D. Eisenhower, he was known as “Engine Charlie.“ Wilson at a press conference (6:24-11:10). Department of Justice, the new Attorney General, Herbert Brownell Jr., who from 1953 to 1957, he served as United States Attorney General in the administration of President Dwight D. Eisenhower. He talks to the camera. His wife is shown and his children. Brownell plays a marble maze game with his son (11:11-13:48). Post Office Dept, Postmaster General sign, Arthur Summerfield is shown, he served as the 54th Postmaster General of the United States from 1953 to 1961. Summerfield summarizes his position. His home near Flint, MI. Meet his wife, children and grandchildren (13:49-15:25). Dept of the Interior, office of the Secretary - Gov. Douglas McKay becomes this position. There is a parade in his honor in the state of Oregon. He speaks to the camera. He works at his desk. Meet his children and grandchildren. Secretary of Agriculture - Ezra Benson. Benson speaks to the camera. Meet his family (15:26-18:26). Secretary of Commerce, Sinclair Weeks talks. Dept of Labor sign. Martin Patrick Durkin was a U.S. administrator. He served as Secretary of Labor from January 21, 1953 to September 10, 1953, where he was the “plumber“ of President Dwight Eisenhower's “Nine Millionaires and a Plumber“ cabinet. Durkin walks outside. He exits a building. He speaks to the camera. Newspaper headline: Taft Breaks Truce by Calling Durkin 'Incredible' Choice. Durkin talks. Diagram that shows Cabinet in relation to the President. Sherman Adams is an assistant to the President, he descended from the prior president Adams. Adams talks. Meet his family (18:27-22:49). US Mission to United Nations, Henry Cabot Lodge talks to the camera. Planes at an airport. Harold Stassen is the manager of the Mutual Security Admin. He walks around an airfield and then boards a plane. The plane flies. Stassen talks to the outgoing person of his new position. Newspaper publishes. Oveta Culp Hobby is the first secretary of the Department of Health, Education and Welfare under President Eisenhower. Houston Post Newspaper front page. She talks to the camera. White House exterior. The empty office next to the oval office inside the white house. Door slams shut (22:50-26:06). Blank commercial slate (26:07-26:12). Our host talks to the camera (26:13-26:34). End credits: March of Time (26:35-26:42). We encourage viewers to add comments and, especially, to provide additional information about our videos by adding a comment! See something interesting? Tell people what it is and what they can see by writing something for example: “01:00:12:00 -- President Roosevelt is seen meeting with Winston Churchill at the Quebec Conference.“ This film is part of the Periscope Film LLC archive, one of the largest historic military, transportation, and aviation stock footage collections in the USA. Entirely film backed, this material is available for licensing in 24p HD, 2k and 4k. For more information visit
