1 Season
10 Episode
The American President - Season 1 Episode 10 The Balance of Power
The final episode examines presidential leadership in an era of an increasingly divided government. The American presidency was conceived as one part of a larger system of institutions, and its effectiveness rests in part upon a good measure of cooperation among the branches. The presidents arrayed in this episode (James Madison, James Polk, William Howard Taft, Bill Clinton) suggest four different conceptions of governance within a constitutionally structured balancing act.
- Year: 2000
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- Genre: Documentary
- Studio: PBS
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- Cast: Walter Cronkite, Morley Safer, Andrew Young, Dale Bumpers, Robert MacNeil, George Will