Basic Info
First Air: April 09, 2000
Status: Ended
Seasons & Episodes
Seasons: 1
Episodes: 10
Last Episode
Name: The Balance of Power
Season: 1, Episode: 10
Air Date: 2000-04-13
Runtime: 53 min
The final episode examines presidential leadership in an era of an increasingly divided government. The American presidency was conceived as one part of a larger system of institutions, and its effectiveness rests in part upon a good measure of cooperation among the branches. The presidents arrayed in this episode (James Madison, James Polk, William Howard Taft, Bill Clinton) suggest four different conceptions of governance within a constitutionally structured balancing act.
The American President
2000
1 seasons
10 episodes
Overview
“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.
Genres
Documentary
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- English en
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Cast
Walter Cronkite
George Washington
Morley Safer
John Adams
Andrew Young
Thomas Jefferson
Dale Bumpers
James Madison
Robert MacNeil
James Monroe
George Will
John Quincy Adams
James Carville
Andrew Jackson
Mario Cuomo
Martin Van Buren
Lloyd Bentsen
William H. Harrison
Charlie Rose
John Tyler
Howard Baker
James K. Polk
Tim Russert
Millard Filmore
Crew
James A. Edgar
Director
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