The Presidents (2005) | Full Cast

Edward Herrmann

Narrator

Walter Cronkite

Self - Journalist

Douglas Brinkley

Self

H.W. Brands

Self - Author, 'TR: The Last Romantic'

Richard Brookhiser

Self - Author, Founding Fathers

Jimmy Carter

Self - US President (1977-1981)

Walter Isaacson

Self - President, The Aspen Institute

Eric Foner

Self - Professor of History, Columbia University

Robert Dallek

Self - Presidential Historian

David Gergen

Self - Former Presidential Advisor

Zachary Karabell

Self - Author, 'Chester Alan Arthur'

William M. Fowler Jr.

Self - Director of Massachusetts Historical Society

James M. McPherson

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

Hugh Sidey

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

John Robert Greene

Self - Professor at Cazenovia College

Thomas J. Knock

Self - Author, 'To End All Wars'

Richard Norton Smith

Self - Presidential Historian

James Chace

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

Mel Elfin

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

Leon Panetta

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

Wesley Clark

Self - U.S. Army

Sam Donaldson

Self - White House Correspondent

Bob Dole

Self - Former U.S. Senator

James Baker III

Secretary of State

Steve Alexander

General George Armstrong Custer

Roger McGrath

Historian

Thomas Y. Cartwright

Self - Director, Carter House Museum

Richard Reeves

Presidential Historian

Annette Gordon-Reed

Self - Author, An American Controversy

Carol Berkin

Self - Author, A Brilliant Solution

Harry Watson

Self - Author, Andrew Jackson vs. Henry Clay

Daniel Walker Howe

Self - Author, Making the American Self

Evan Thomas

Self - Newsweek

Kenneth Ackerman

Self - Author, 'Dark Horse'

Paul Bergeron

Self - Editor, 'The Papers of Andrew Johnson'

Theodore Sorensen

Self - Former Special Counsel to President Kennedy

Larry Berman

Self - Professor, UC Davis

Michael Nelson

Self - Author, The Evolving Presidency

Robert Ferrell

Self - Professor Emeritus of History at Indiana University

David M. Kennedy

Self - Professor of History at Stanford University

Alan Brinkley

Self - Provost, Columbia University

Catherine Clinton

Self - Gilder Lehrman Center, Yale University

Hans L. Trefousse

Self - Author, 'Andrew Johnson: A Biography'

John Seigenthaler Sr.

Self - Author, James K. Polk

Sam W. Haynes

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

Judith Anderson

Self - Author, 'Taft: An Intimate History'

Michael L. Bromley

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

Charles Calhoun

Self - Author, 'Benjamin Harrison'

Allan Spetter

Self - Author, 'The Presidency of Benjamin Harrison'

Morton Keller

Self - Professor Emeritus of History at Brandeis University

Susan Ware

Self - Historian, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study

Jean Harvey Baker

Self - Professor of History, Goucher College

Roy Morris

Self - Author, 'Fraud of the Century'

John Milton Cooper

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

Marvin Kitman

Self - Author, Making of the President

Warren G. Harding III

Self - Grandnephew of President Warren G. Harding

James Rees

Self - Executive Director, Historic Mount Vernon

David Greenberg

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

Peter A. Wallner

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

Mark Summers

Self - Author, 'Rum, Romanism & Rebellion'

Timothy Walch

Self - Director of Herbert Hoover Presidential Library & Museum

Tom Culbertson

Self - Rutherford B. Hayes Presidential Center

Thomas J. DiLorenzo

Self - Author, 'The Real Lincoln'

Harold Holzer

Self - Author, 'Lincoln at Cooper Union'

Samuel C. Slaymaker

Self - Executive Director, James Buchanan Foundation

Ronald Reagan

Self(archiveFootage)

Bill Clinton

Self

John F. Kennedy

Self(archiveFootage)

George W. Bush

Self

George Bush

Self

Richard Nixon

Self(archiveFootage)

Lyndon B. Johnson

Self(archiveFootage)

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Self(archiveFootage)

Theodore Roosevelt

Self(archiveFootage)

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Self(archiveFootage)

Gerald Ford

Self

Harry S. Truman

Self(archiveFootage)

Calvin Coolidge

Self(archiveFootage)

William McKinley

Self(archiveFootage)

William Howard Taft

Self(archiveFootage)

Warren G. Harding

Self(archiveFootage)

Rutherford B. Hayes

Self(archiveFootage)

Benjamin Harrison

Self(archiveFootage)

Joe Desson

Lt. W.W. Cooke(uncredited)