Adams Resigns.
Adams Resigns.
Clip: 355809_1_1
Year Shot: 1958
(Actual Year)
Audio: Yes
Video: B/W
Tape Master: 1651
Original Film: 031-076-02
HD: N/A
Location: Newport, Rhode Island (?)
Timecode: 00:20:29 - 00:21:07
Adams Resigns. Presidential assistant Sherman Adams makes a flying visit to Newport for a conference with Ike [President Dwight Eisenhower] in which Adams submits his resignation, in the face of the three-month old controversy over his acceptance of gifts from industrialist Bernard Goldfine. Exterior large building. Several men, including Eisenhower, walk down steps. Some military men, some people with cameras are around them as they walk. A few men climb into helicopter, man in uniform closes the door to 'copter. Helicopter in flight, tree branch in foreground.