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THE STATE DEPARTMENT: WHAT IT DOES; HOW IT RUNS; THE MEN WHO RUN IT Part 1
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NEWS PROGRAM: Howard K. Smith reports on the agency's purpose, operation, administration, and characterizes the diplomat. Gives brief biographic sketch of Secretary of State Christian A. Herter and his leading subordinates, Robert D. Murphy, C. Douglas Dillon, Loy Henderson, Livingston Merchant, and briefly mentions other individuals. Film clip of Eisenhower's 1959 tour of Western Europe and the year's major foreign policy problems.
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General Records of the Department of State
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Moving Images Relating to U.S. Foreign Policy and Foreign Relations
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