The American President
Documentary
“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.
2000-04-09
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Cast
Walter Cronkite as George Washington
Morley Safer as John Adams
Andrew Young as Thomas Jefferson
George Will as John Quincy Adams
James Carville as Andrew Jackson
Mario Cuomo as Martin Van Buren
Lloyd Bentsen as William H. Harrison
Charlie Rose as John Tyler
Tim Russert as Millard Filmore
David Gergen as James Buchanan
Norman Schwarzkopf as Ulysses S. Grant
Billy Graham as James Garfield
Lowell Weicker as Grover Cleveland
Alexander Haig as Benjamin Harrison
William F. Buckley Jr. as Theodore Roosevelt
Colin Powell as William H. Taft
Bob Dole as Herbert Hoover
Jimmy Carter as Self
George H. W. Bush as Self
Bill Clinton as Self