The American President (2000)
The American President (2000)
Plot.
“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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Cast & Crew.

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

Sargent Shriver
Franklin Pierce

David Gergen
James Buchanan

Paul Simon
Abraham Lincoln

Don Imus
Andrew Johnson

Norman Schwarzkopf
Ulysses S. Grant

John Glenn
Rutherford B. Hayes

Billy Graham
James Garfield

Dan Rostenkowski
Chester A. Arthur

Lowell Weicker
Grover Cleveland

Alexander Haig
Benjamin Harrison

George Shultz
William McKinley

William F. Buckley Jr.
Theodore Roosevelt

Colin Powell
William H. Taft

George Mitchell
Woodrow Wilson

Ben Bradlee
Warren G. Harding

Bill Weld
Calvin Coolidge

Bob Dole
Herbert Hoover

Gerald Ford
Self

Jimmy Carter
Self

George H. W. Bush
Self

Bill Clinton
Self

James Roosevelt Jr.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

James A. Edgar
Director

Jared Lipworth
Post Production Supervisor

Caroline Waterlow
Associate Producer
