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Go to HomepageReel Number: 221607-01
Color: Colour
Sound: SD
Year / Date: 1963,1960s
Country: Germany,USA
Location: Austin,Bergstrom AFB,Texas
TC Begins: 01:00:00
TC Ends: 01:11:26
Duration: 00:11:26
1963 - Color, USA: Visit of Chancellor Ludwig Erhard of West Germany. 28Dec63 Morning sunrise, three black kids w/ Hereford whiteface calves; CU bulls; CU formal hitching pots; German & US flags along drive, Wellkommen! banner over gate. US & Texas flag in CU. LBJ ranch house w/ bunting & Erhard picture. 01:01:28 Title: “Texas White House - December 28-29, 1963. Visit to the United States...” 01:01:45 Lufthansa plane arrives w/ Erhard, LBJ & Ladybird greet, band playing; honor guard & saluting as LBJ & Erhard walk past. 01:03:47 LBJ (w/ Dean Rusk behind) SOF greeting to US & Texas; speaks of German immigrants in area. Still & newsreel cameramen & photographers. Talks of need to enlarge peace, stability etc. 01:06:20 Handshake & Erhard responds w/ translator. Speaks of how friendship has grown between Germany & US. Peace & freedom are indivisible... Thanks for US efforts for Berlin... 01:09:13 Leaving podium, & US Marine helicopter flying off. 01:09:31 Ranch sidewalk & party slowly strolling stiffly to house. Various people in party talking, looking at papers; entering house & surrounded by photographers on lawn posing. Lynda Bird Johnson talking w/ them also. Erhard & Dean Rusk sitting on benches w/ translators and ?? Presidential entertaining; German-Americans; Immigration; Western Settlers; President Lyndon Baines Johnson; 1963 diplomacy; 1960s;