The American Presidents Podcast
1) President Jimmy Carter
President Jimmy CarterOn a warm January afternoon in 1977, as the inaugural procession wound slowly along Pennsylvania Avenue, a new president broke with decades of tradition. Instead of riding in the...Show More
2) President Gerald Ford
President Gerald FordIn that moment, many Americans saw Ford for what he essentially was: not a visionary or an ideologue, but a decent, straightforward man who had been dropped into the presidency al...Show More
3) President Richard M. Nixon
President Richard M. NixonRichard Nixon’s presidency begins, in most people’s minds, with an ending: a man in a dark suit stepping onto a helicopter on an August morning in 1974, giving a stiff, awkwa...Show More
4) President Lyndon Baines Johnson
President Lyndon Baines JohnsonOn the afternoon of November 22, 1963, aboard Air Force One on the tarmac in Dallas, a heavyset man in a dark suit raised his right hand while his left rested on a small...Show More
5) President John F. Kennedy
President John F. KennedyOn a bright November morning in 1963, the motorcade moved slowly through downtown Dallas. The sky was clear, the air crisp, and the crowds thick along the sidewalks. People le...Show More
6) President Dwight Eisenhower
President Dwight EisenhowerOn a raw January morning in 1953, as a cold wind cut across the National Mall, a former five-star general stood on the podium of the Capitol, hand on a Bible, about to becom...Show More
7) President Herbert Hoover
President Herbert HooverOn the night of March 4, 1929, as the festivities of Inauguration Day faded and Washington’s elite drifted from ballroom to ballroom, Herbert Clark Hoover sat for a quiet momen...Show More
8) President Calvin Coolidge
President Calvin CoolidgeIn the summer of 1923, a small, spare bedroom in a Vermont farmhouse filled with the soft, uneven glow of lamplight. Outside, the village of Plymouth Notch slept under a sky p...Show More
9) President Warren G. Harding
President Warren G. HardingOn a humid July evening in 1921, the new President of the United States leaned back in the upholstered seat of a White House car rolling slowly up Pennsylvania Avenue. Warre...Show More
10) President Woodrow Wilson
Woodrow Wilson was born into a world divided and left it even more fractured, yet forever changed by his vision. Few American presidents are as contradictory, as intensely moral and yet as blinkered, ...Show More