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Television and the Presidency

"The Presidency is a weak office. Our founders didn't want a king....Except you have the single platform to marshall public opinion." - Sam Donaldson, ABC Chief White House Correspondent

Administrations covered in the Archive interviews:

  • Pre-Roosevelt
  • Franklin Delano Roosevelt
  • Harry S. Truman
  • Dwight D. Eisenhower
  • John F. Kennedy
  • Lyndon Johnson
  • Richard M. Nixon
  • Gerald Ford
  • James Earl Carter
  • Ronald Reagan
  • George Herbert Walker Bush
  • William Jefferson Clinton
  • George W. Bush
  • Barack Obama

 

Video: "I Like Ike" animated television commercial, produced by Roy Disney and Citizens for Eisenhower-Nixon via Internet Archive.

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  • TV’s Golden Age (1940s & ‘50s)
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People talking about this topic

  • Lewis Bernstein
    • Clip 1 : Johnson
  • Ed Bradley
    • Clip 1 : Carter
    • Clip 2 : Carter
  • David Brinkley
    • Clip 1 : Nixon
  • Walter Cronkite
    • Clip 1 : Television and the Presidency
    • Clip 2 : Television and the Presidency
    • Clip 3 : Television and the Presidency
    • Clip 4 : Eisenhower
    • Clip 5 : Truman
    • Clip 6 : Truman
    • Clip 7 : Nixon
    • Clip 8 : Nixon
    • Clip 9 : Kennedy
    • Clip 10 : Eisenhower
    • Clip 11 : Johnson
  • Sam Donaldson
    • Clip 1 : Television and the Presidency
    • Clip 2 : Kennedy
    • Clip 3 : Television and the Presidency
    • Clip 4 : Nixon
    • Clip 5 : Johnson
    • Clip 6 : Nixon
    • Clip 7 : Nixon
    • Clip 8 : Carter
    • Clip 9 : Carter
    • Clip 10 : Television and the Presidency
    • Clip 11 : Reagan
    • Clip 12 : Reagan
    • Clip 13 : Reagan
    • Clip 14 : Reagan
    • Clip 15 : Clinton
    • Clip 16 : Reagan
  • Mike Douglas
    • Clip 1 : Nixon
  • Michael J. Fox
    • Clip 1 : Reagan
  • Don Hewitt
    • Clip 1 : Television and the Presidency
  • Leslie Moonves
    • Clip 1 : Bush Jr.
  • Tim Russert
    • Clip 1 : Clinton
    • Clip 2 : Television and the Presidency
  • Tom Smothers and Dick Smothers
    • Clip 1 : Nixon
    • Clip 2 : Johnson
  • Lesley Stahl
    • Clip 1 : Nixon
    • Clip 2 : Nixon
    • Clip 3 : Television and the Presidency
    • Clip 4 : Carter
    • Clip 5 : Carter
    • Clip 6 : Reagan
    • Clip 7 : Reagan
  • Mike Wallace
    • Clip 1 : Nixon
    • Clip 2 : Nixon
  • Barbara Walters
    • Clip 1 : Johnson
    • Clip 2 : Nixon
    • Clip 3 : Nixon
    • Clip 4 : Clinton
  • Dick Wolf
    • Clip 1 : Bush Jr.

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