The Presidents (2005) | Full Cast

Edward Herrmann

Narrator

Walter Cronkite

Self - Journalist

H.W. Brands

Self - Author, 'TR: The Last Romantic'

Douglas Brinkley

Director, 'Eisenhower Center'

Richard Brookhiser

Self - Author, Founding Fathers

Jimmy Carter

Self - US President (1977-1981)

David Gergen

Self - Former Presidential Advisor

Walter Isaacson

Self - President, The Aspen Institute

Eric Foner

Self - Professor of History, Columbia University

Hugh Sidey

Author, 'Hugh Sidney's Portraits of the Presidents'

John Robert Greene

Self - Professor at Cazenovia College

Richard Norton Smith

Self - Presidential Historian

James M. McPherson

Self - Editor, 'To the Best of My Ability'

Zachary Karabell

Self - Author, 'Chester Alan Arthur'

Robert Dallek

Self - Presidential Historian

Mel Elfin

Self - Washington Bureau Chief for Newsweek (1965-1985)

William M. Fowler Jr.

Self - Director of Massachusetts Historical Society

Thomas J. Knock

Self - Author, 'To End All Wars'

James Chace

Self - Author - '1912: The Election That Changed the Country'

Bob Dole

Self - Former U.S. Senator

Sam Donaldson

Self - White House Correspondent

Roger McGrath

Historian

Leon Panetta

Self - U.S. Congressman (1977-1993)

Wesley Clark

Self - U.S. Army

Carol Berkin

Self - Author, A Brilliant Solution

Harold Holzer

Self - Author, 'Lincoln at Cooper Union'

Richard Reeves

Presidential Historian

Allan Spetter

Self - Author, 'The Presidency of Benjamin Harrison'

Evan Thomas

Self - Newsweek

Thomas Y. Cartwright

Self - Director, Carter House Museum

James A. Baker

Secretary of State (1989-1992)

Steve Alexander

General George Armstrong Custer

Peter A. Wallner

Self - Author, 'Franklin Pierce: N.H.'s Favorite Son'

Marvin Kitman

Self - Author, Making of the President

Theodore Sorensen

Self - Former Special Counsel to President Kennedy

John Milton Cooper

Self - Author, 'Breaking the Heart of the World'

Judith Anderson

Self - Author, 'Taft: An Intimate History'

Tom Culbertson

Self - Rutherford B. Hayes Presidential Center

Harry Watson

Self - Author, Andrew Jackson vs. Henry Clay

Roy Morris

Self - Author, 'Fraud of the Century'

Warren G. Harding III

Self - Grandnephew of President Warren G. Harding

David Greenberg

Self - Author, 'Nixon's Shadow: The History of an Image'

Thomas J. DiLorenzo

Self - Author, 'The Real Lincoln'

Susan Ware

Self - Historian, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study

Sam W. Haynes

Self - Author, James K. Polk and the Expansionist Impulse

Mark Summers

Self - Author, 'Rum, Romanism & Rebellion'

Larry Berman

Self - Professor, UC Davis

Catherine Clinton

Self - Gilder Lehrman Center, Yale University

Daniel Walker Howe

Self - Author, Making the American Self

Jean Baker

Self - Professor of History, Goucher College

Timothy Walch

Self - Director of Herbert Hoover Presidential Library & Museum

Charles Calhoun

Self - Author, 'Benjamin Harrison'

James Rees

Self - Executive Director, Historic Mount Vernon

Annette Gordon-Reed

Self - Author, An American Controversy

Paul Bergeron

Self - Editor, 'The Papers of Andrew Johnson'

Michael Nelson

Self - Author, The Evolving Presidency

John Seigenthaler Sr.

Self - Author, James K. Polk

Alan Brinkley

Self - Provost, Columbia University

Hans L. Trefousse

Self - Author, 'Andrew Johnson: A Biography'

Samuel C. Slaymaker

Self - Executive Director, James Buchanan Foundation

Kenneth Ackerman

Self - Author, 'Dark Horse'

Morton Keller

Self - Professor Emeritus of History at Brandeis University

Michael L. Bromley

Self - Author, 'William Howard Taft and the First Motoring Presidency'

David M. Kennedy

Self - Professor of History at Stanford University

Robert Ferrell

Self - Professor Emeritus of History at Indiana University

Ronald Reagan

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John F. Kennedy

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Bill Clinton

Self

Franklin D. Roosevelt

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George W. Bush

Self

George Bush

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Richard Nixon

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Theodore Roosevelt

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Dwight D. Eisenhower

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Lyndon B. Johnson

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Gerald Ford

Self

Harry S. Truman

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Calvin Coolidge

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William Howard Taft

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Warren G. Harding

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William McKinley

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Benjamin Harrison

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Rutherford B. Hayes

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