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Topical Budget 947-1: From Downing Street to White House (1929)
 

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"From Downing Street to White House U.S. Secretary of State welcomes Mr. Ramsay MacDonald on arrival in Washington." Extra long shot of the party (people not discernible) gathering in front of cameramen and newsreel cameramen. Close shot of MacDonald and Secretary of State Henry Lewis Stimson. Motorcade through crowd lined street. "With President Hoover after their first chat" MacDonald and President Herbert Hoover emerge from doorway and walk to camera; Closer view.