Khrushchev's Visit to Iowa 1959 - film 1 part 4

and there ladies and gentlemen you heard governor Herschel Loveless of Iowa extending an official welcome on behalf of this state to Russian premier Khrushchev and as you heard Khrushchev replied with a tribute to Iowa's rank as the number one corn producing state in the Union and could not resist at the moment the opportunity to mention once again that in this field too Soviet Russia expected to compete with Iowa as he has indicated the Russians do in so many fields with Americans and then very quickly with no other part of the ceremony the group disbanded and the official party is about to get into the cars to begin the cavalcade to the Fort Des Moines hotel traveling down McKinley then down Fleur to Locust along Locust to 10th and down Locust to the Fort Des Moines hotel where that large crowd is waiting and where we presume almost equally large crowds are waiting at other places on the routes between here and the hotel and the governor and Premier Khrushchev will be getting into the open car you see a group of people including Henry Cabot Lodge clustered about that car right now and you see an exchange of information of some sort going on between Lodge and Khrushchev Khrushchev if I see correctly at the moment has a coat on now and is also wearing that hat that he is used with which to gesture so many many times I've imagined he'll be rather pleased to ride in an open car you know he made some pretty barbed comments about riding in a closed car in Los Angeles which he thought was too hot well the closed car they had for him if he wanted it today here in Des Moines was to be an air-conditioned one so he wouldn't have been able to complain about that too much but it's obvious that he prefers an open car where he would be able to see and be seen with a great deal more ease the motorcycle policemen a veritable phalanx of them has been gathered here getting ready to escort him and before long we will see the Khrushchev party leaving out of our view at the moment other members of the party including Mayor Isles the lieutenant governor the members of the Chamber of Commerce Mrs. Khrushchev of course Mrs. Loveless and all the others who have been present for these brief welcoming ceremonies will be getting into their cars and the whole cavalcade will head for downtown Des Moines motorcycle escorts you see on either side the car which bears Khrushchev carries on his forward portion as you