Pres. Dwight Eisenhower's first televised press conference

Title card: "Eyes and Ears on President - First film record of press conference" / US Pres. Dwight Eisenhower enters the room and all stand; he takes his place at two microphones / a man and a women take notes / the room full of journalists with movie cameras behind them / a cameraman takes shots of a reporter / SOT journalist asks a question about Formosa and China with a pan to the president who SOT discusses United Nations operations and possibility of a cease-fire / SOT Robert E. Clark of the International News Service asks about the "seriousness of the latest Communist attacks on Nationalist islands in the China Sea, in light of our commitment to defend Formosa" / SOT Eisenhower "Well, I should like to see the U.N. attempt to exercise good offices, I believe, because whenever there's any kind of fighting and open violence in the world, there is always a - it's always sort of a powder keg"; he mentions UN's Dag Hammarskjold and efforts for release of American airmen and praises him / Press secretary James C. Hagerty speaks quietly to the president; Eisenhower mentions American men on 'the island' and laughs if he will run for a second term: he laughs, "it looks like a loaded question" / The session ends, and the men scramble out of the room