The American President (2000)

“The American President” is a series that aired on PBS in 2000 profiling 41 U.S. chief executives, using exclusive interviews with Presidents Clinton, Bush, Ford, and Carter. Well known figures lend their voice to presidents of the past who lived before sound recordings, including: Colin Powell, Bob Dole, Walter Cronkite, Ben Bradlee, John Glenn, James Carville, Andrew Young, and the Rev. Billy Graham. Narrated by Hugh Sidey.

The American President

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Walter Cronkite

Walter Cronkite

as George Washington

as Thomas Jefferson

as James Madison

as James Monroe

as John Quincy Adams

as Andrew Jackson

as Martin Van Buren

as William H. Harrison

as James K. Polk

as Millard Filmore

Sargent Shriver

Sargent Shriver

as Franklin Pierce

as James Buchanan

as Abraham Lincoln

as Andrew Johnson

Norman Schwarzkopf

Norman Schwarzkopf

as Ulysses S. Grant

as Rutherford B. Hayes

as James Garfield

Dan Rostenkowski

Dan Rostenkowski

as Chester A. Arthur

as Grover Cleveland

as Benjamin Harrison

as William McKinley

William F. Buckley Jr.

William F. Buckley Jr.

as Theodore Roosevelt

as William H. Taft

George Mitchell

George Mitchell

as Woodrow Wilson

as Warren G. Harding

as Calvin Coolidge

as Herbert Hoover

George H. W. Bush

George H. W. Bush

James Roosevelt Jr.

James Roosevelt Jr.

as Franklin D. Roosevelt

as Zachary Taylor (voice)

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Seasons

Season 1

Season 1

Episodes season 1

1x1

Family ties
1x2

Happenstance
1x3

An independent cast of mind
1x4

The professional politician
1x5

The american way
1x6

The world stage
1x7

The heroic posture
1x8

Compromise choices
1x9

Expanding power
1x10

The balance of power

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