
The American President
“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.
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Walter Cronkite
George Washington · 10 eps

Morley Safer
John Adams · 10 eps

Andrew Young
Thomas Jefferson · 10 eps
Dale Bumpers
James Madison · 10 eps

Robert MacNeil
James Monroe · 10 eps

George Will
John Quincy Adams · 10 eps

James Carville
Andrew Jackson · 10 eps

Mario Cuomo
Martin Van Buren · 10 eps

Lloyd Bentsen
William H. Harrison · 10 eps

Charlie Rose
John Tyler · 10 eps
Howard Baker
James K. Polk · 10 eps

Tim Russert
Millard Filmore · 10 eps
Sargent Shriver
Franklin Pierce · 10 eps

David Gergen
James Buchanan · 10 eps
Paul Simon
Abraham Lincoln · 10 eps
Don Imus
Andrew Johnson · 10 eps

Norman Schwarzkopf
Ulysses S. Grant · 10 eps

John Glenn
Rutherford B. Hayes · 10 eps

Billy Graham
James Garfield · 10 eps
Dan Rostenkowski
Chester A. Arthur · 10 eps
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