mr. mashon: it goes from black and white to color. and he tells president eisenhower, we are making two copies on this new kind of videotape for you, mr. president. >> i have a strip of this new tape. i have asked our engineers to make two copies of this program. one will be sent to the white house for your personal retention. the other will be presented to the library of congress so it's archives may permanently possess a visual record in color of this significant occasion. i think all of us realize that in these fast-moving times, it is highly important that our nations capital should be attached to every single citizen in this country by the very fastest best kind of decisions of the nation and of a government that one time could tolerate three or four weeks of study now demand almost instantaneous reaction. mike: and that is the copy that we have here. our engineers recently did a new transfer of it. so amazingly enough, 55 years later, we are still able to copy this video. ["hail to the chief" playing mike: the way that most peopl