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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Lewis Bernstein
- Clip 1 : Johnson
Ed Bradley
- Clip 1 : Carter
- Clip 2 : Carter
David Brinkley
- Clip 1 : Nixon
Walter Cronkite
Sam Donaldson
Mike Douglas
- Clip 1 : Nixon
George Faber
- Clip 1 : Truman
Imero Fiorentino
- Clip 1 : Television and the Presidency
Michael J. Fox
- Clip 1 : Reagan
Don Hewitt
- Clip 1 : Television and the Presidency
Larry King
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
Mike Wallace
- Clip 1 : Nixon
- Clip 2 : Nixon
Barbara Walters
Dick Wolf
- Clip 1 : Bush Jr.

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MEET THE PRESS (1947-PRESENT). Meet the Press first aired locally on November 6, 1947 then nationally two weeks later (with the November 20, 1947 broadcast) and is currently the longest-running television show in history. The weekly news program has been a Sunday staple since 1950. This pioneering public affairs interview program was co-created by Martha Rountree and Laurence Spivak and began on radio in 1945. Among the many series moderators over the years were: Martha Rountree, Laurence Spivak, Ned Brooks, Bill Monroe, Tim Russert, and David Gregory.

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Television and the Presidency

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