The American President: The World Stage

[@nicewillz]

I have been looking for this series forever! I remember watching it in high school in the early 2000's and loved it. Glad I found it.

[@byronblack5607]

The love shown to Wilson is insane.

[@platinumuschannel]

He really wasn't that good. Your average European may love him, but their leaders certainly didn't.

[@CJ87317]

Not really - he's still usually listed quite high in historical rankings. Just not as high as he was before his racial attitudes really looked at the last dozen years or so.

[@TheLemon333]

He loved to use the N word. Real evolved.

[@Whosaids0]

Y'all have no place to say. Because your opinion makes no difference concerning the implied subject. Don't carry on, or muddle up the present with conclusions drawn from so many other redundant opinions .

[@nickadams794]

Wilson is quite simply one of the worst.

[@joaquinpraveenvishnu8509]

Robert MacNeil was one of the journalists traveling in the motorcade with President Kennedy in Dallas TX on Nov 22, 1963

[@tuomasmattila283]

is there a series that goes through each American president one by one?

[@jamellfoster6029]

Try the People's Profiles...

[@romanclay1913]

In 1900, Teddy Roosevelt wanted to be the VP candidate, but McKinley's first term VP, Garret Hobart, refused to step aside, but then died in Nov. 1899, age 55. TR and McKinley were elected to office November, 1900. McKinley was assassinated September 6, 1901. TR became president. McKinley's campaign manager, Sen. Mark Hanna, wanted to challenge TR in GOP presidential primary in 1904. Hanna died February 1904. TR won reelection November, 1904.

[@robertpolityka8464]

I thought TR didn't want to be Vice President, because the Office of Vice President was considered the pathway to oblivion. The Vice Presidency became vacant in 1899 and was thus available. The Office of Governor of New York seemed more like a stepping stone to the Presidency. TR's opponents were able to convince the Delegates of The Republican Convention to draft Roosevelt. Mark Hanna opposed the idea, saying that TR would only be a heartbeat from the Presidency.

[@platinumuschannel]

I have read TR's correspondence, which was chronicled in a book. He spoke more than once about the utter uselessness of the Vice Presidency, and strongly detested in before he was ever considered for the role. Incidentally, I do not recall the exact reason why he ultimately accepted the nomination, but he saw it as his descent into obscurity, courtesy of boss Platt.

[@kidnplay3978]

Monroe's defense was a full-length novel epic.

[@raspower2200]

There was a great program called the presidents.. on youtube from George Washington to Clinton which have been removed... so sad

[@halliardbrowniii6191]

Why did the producers skip over Wilson ending Black employment in federal government?

[@DMA111]

Maybe they didn't want to put him in any kind of negative light?

[@charlesharris9965]

Because the episode is about foreign affairs, not domestic policy.

[@kidmohair8151]

not to mention openly encouraging the KKK, promoting the lost cause/states rights/not slavery causes of the civil war, a mythology that white supremacists dearly love to trot out at every opportunity.

[@jdburris4455]

Becuase having blacks in fed jobs gives us morons like obama, fanni willis, and that judge who dont know what a fuckin female is.

[@optimisticneighsayer5823]

More disturbing in the context of the foreign affair focus is its omission of his interventions in Latin America throughout his tenure, especially since the writers go out of the way to frame him as so peace-loving. Maybe they thought actually bothering to discuss the Philippine-American War with McKinley was enough anti-imperialist criticism for them.

[@yvonnefarrell1029]

No one is all good or all bad and every one of us citizens and permanent residents has their own background, family history, religious inclination and ethnic identity which also feeds into our choices in leaders. Even the recently-maligned Woodrow Wilson contributed to the US in some positive ways.

[@Subzeppelin1]

This could not have been more favorable to Wilson. Dude started the Federal Reserve, which has been ruining our currency every moment since it’s inception.

[@rp8069]

Aldrich was the main driver of the Jekyll Island secret group, Wilson signed the Act which became law

[@ronaldzent6321]

Probably, the best thing Bush did as POTUS, was to sign into law the ADA in 1990( Americans with Disabilities) Act.

[@ronaldzent6321]

Was George Washington's first name Preston? Just heard it here. it was GW that supposedly said something like, "Beware of Foreign entanglements"

[@carolrademacher7002]

What

[@edwardtressel1953]

READ AND LEARN A LITTLE BIT SOME MORE HERE ALL ABOUT HIM - HIS PRESIDENCY WITH ACCURATE CORRECT INFORMATION!!! NO SUCH "PRESTON" EXISTS!! WHERE DID YOU EVER HEAR SUCH B.S.??? PLUS WHAT YOU ALUDED TO WAS A PASSAGE FROM PRESIDENT WASHINGTON'S "FAREWELL ADDRESS" - PUBLISHED IN AMERICAN NEWSPAPERS DURING THE FINAL MONTHS OF HIS ADMINISTRATION IN 1796-1797 GIVING HIS PERSONAL FUTURE SUGGESTIONS FOR NATIONAL FOREIGN POLICIES DURING THAT WEAK PERIOD OF U S. HISTORY DOMINATED BY INCREASING RENEWED CONFLICT BETWEEN BRITAIN MONARCHY & FRENCH REPUBLIC IN EUROPE!!!! BUT NOT NECESSARILY RELEVANT OR PERTINENT TO OUR MODERN WORLD ESPECIALLY AFTER THE BEGINNING OF THE 20th CENTURY WITH CURRENT TECHNOLOGY & INVENTIONS!!! = D.E.T. (Baltimore /// Saturday - October 14th, 2023) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Washington en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presidency_of_George_Washington en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federalist_Era en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington's_Farewell_Address

[@johnnotrealname8168]

​@@carolrademacher7002It might have been a myriad of George Washingtons.

[@johnnotrealname8168]

He was the idiot that got you to betray your rightful sovereign and began a War with the French. I do not think you should read him regarding War.

[@Hyperspeed78]

😂❤ the history Dr.tyrone Williams of Chester PA

[@sebastianwrites]

17:36 talk about success going to your head. And before this trying to take control of the Philippines... it is up to the people of the Philippines themselves who their leader? I hadn't realised that another American President had been assassinated, and yet another before this had been also? And this programme also says, if Vietnam War ended the same as Philippine War, but then doesn't tell us who the Philippine's War ended? That's not saying their is a need for intervention often, and we don't often enough now... but ultimately the people of country have to decide their own future.

[@lindaschell110]

Woodrow Wilson endorsed "Birth of a Nation", which sent America back fifty years in terms of race relatioons. This documentary is woefully incomplete of the full picture of the southern, Woodrow Wilson.

[@johnnotrealname8168]

Ah yes Thomas Woodrow Wilson the man who promised self-government for Europe and gave it to the Filipinos. It was Warren Gamaliel Harding who ended up supporting Irish independence as opposed to this idealist.

[@j.adickey2002]

A well balanced take on some of the better presidents of our nation who came slightly short of actual greatness. Each has a minor or major character flaw or two, but they are reflective of their times. Mind you, I'm being diplomatically polite about what THE SHRUB managed to accomplish, but like McKinley and Wilson, his presidency is transitional. Wilson paves the way for FDR, Bill McKinley chooses Teddy Roosevelt to run with him, TR then paves the way for the 20th Century to come into being in full. James Monroe was preceded by presidents he respected and/or admired, who did significant things, he is followed by John Quincy Adams.

[@MikeLuzzo-qd6jd]

What is found is often family employment J edgar hoover followed his uncle. His neice followed him

[@peterrudy766]

PBS Hate Shown By Skipping Over Reagan And Giving Reagan's Credit For Ending The Cold War To Bush, Is An Abomination!

[@christianmartens3578]

😂😂 You giving Reagan the credit for that is the Abomination. The Collapse of the UdSSR started with their Afghanistan war - which wasn't under Reagan....so no credit there - and it ended under the presidency of Bush - of course Reagan had a small part in it, like EVERY president since 45 ....but giving him the most credit is insane....

[@canadianformal7564]

They already talked about Reagan in an earlier episode.

[@CarlSanchious]

Anton Dvorak :; " yeah we countrymen but I ont' know cuz "

[@platinumuschannel]

Spain declared war on us first, in fact. McKinley has rarely been credited for the real achievement of his Presidency. By enlisting the help of former Confeds in the war, he helped to heal a yet-divided nation 33 years after the cessation of hostilities against the States in rebellion. McKinley, therefor, gets top billing in underappreciated Presidents for my view.

[@johnnotrealname8168]

Military Force was already authorised though.

[@kimberleymurphy3512]

I don't get why they don't start with #1 & go in chronological order? It's all over the place.

[@lifestoriesinterviews]

Hi Kimberley, thanks for the great question. The series is organized thematically rather than in chronological order.

[@stevesantamaria4820]

Americans salute

[@scottsirk9364]

History will be very kind to George Herbert Walker Bush

[@weswall7302]

I love the Bush presidents... especially the son...he was Awesome...for real

[@2H2521]

He was a disaster!

[@DavidDillon101]

The film describes President Wilson as “ahead of his times.” In some ways, perhaps; but one must also consider Wilson’s attitudes concerning race - hardly ahead of his times.

[@ronaldzent6321]

Or, that he also had a showing of DW Griffiths "Birth of a Nation" a viruenrly racist propaganda laden movie. At the White House

[@judithgrace9850]

God is in control

[@clintonwalls3642]

I wish people would STOP calling Roosevelt a war hero, he didn't do anything he told the people back home. He didn't charge up san Juan hill on a horse that's a dam lie. He was lucky he and his so called rough riders made it home alive. They were pinned down under heavy gun fire and was taking a lot of casualties. The colored troops and some other white troopers saved their butts. When he first got back home he said the colored troops did good, but when he decided to run for office he said the colored troops weren't any good. I have no respect for Wilson or Roosevelt.

[@ricardocantoral7672]

It's true that Roosevelt was not a military strategist but he did charge up San Juan Hill and put himself in mortal danger. I also would like to know where you heard that Roosevelt had a low estimate of black troops.

[@clintonwalls3642]

@@ricardocantoral7672 you don't know what you're talking about, Roosevelt did NOT charge up no dam san Juan hill. You no nothing about history, I mean the facts not some damn lies. White people like to lie and change facts to support bullshit. You need a real history lesson, Roosevelt did shit in Cuba worth talking about. And yes he did down play the role of the black soldiers, they saved him and his so called rough riders dumb asses. It was the colored troopers and the other white regular troopers that took san Juan hill and kettle hill. Stop watching TV movies and read the facts!!!

[@platinumuschannel]

@@ricardocantoral7672 To answer your inquiry, as somewhat of a TR buff- He didn't exactly "charge" up any hill during the war that we know of. I emphasize the word in quotations because that often is spoken/written with the connotation of being mounted on horseback as a cavalry officer. The more accurate statement would be that TR LED his men up the well, so far I can tell you. The Rough Riders were dismounted cavalry, for there were not enough naval vessels to take both the men and their horses with them. That's the best answer that I can give to you at this time. As for the charge against TR regarding black troops: I suspect the the other person you spoke with has an axe to grind, as I've come upon a primary source, straight from TR himself, praising the Buffalo Soldiers. He may be referring to the "Brownsville Incident", but that's reaching for the scarecrow if he's claiming that TR thought lowly of black troops.

[@johnnotrealname8168]

He was a progressive, he should be criticised for that not for hating black troops.

[@johnnotrealname8168]

@RockyRepublican He was not a racist at all. He was a eugenicist though.

[@kidmohair8151]

this is the second episode I have had to skip out of. I understand this is series from the late 1990s-2000, but the US exceptionalism on display in the last one (The American Way) and this one are too overwhelming to allow me to continue watching. 3rd strike and I'm out.

[@HaimTabibi]

I am sorry your politics did not allow you to enjoy or learn from it. My family emigrated from the Near East to Holland and then immigrated to the US (here in Ohio) and my great uncle to Mexico (Monterrey). There is zero objective doubt that US exceptionalism has made the world a better place. Programs like these assist in looking at the ground work providing the basis for problem solving around the work. And, it is not perfect, but the tools are there to make it better. Shalom.

[@platinumuschannel]

And I'm quite glad to see it on display- I'm awfully sick of being told my country is so awful and "racist", yet it's the country that all of the migrants seem to flock to!

[@stevesantamaria4820]

The salute of all yankees

[@DanielMulloy-bg6gw]

George H.W. Bush was a good, decent man. In 1988 i turned 18 years old and George Bush was the first person i ever voted for..... we need more people like that in politics today.

[@MrGibble64]

rather moronic statement dan . . do you read ? do you suffer from some kind of brain injury ? either of these things would explain your idiotic mumblings . .

[@clintonwalls3642]

Bull crap he was a evil man. He worked for the c.i.a during the Kennedy administration during the bay of pigs in Cuba. Kennedy didn't send in the fighter jets and the whole operation was a bust. The c.i.a , the joint Chief's of staff, and Johnson had Kennedy assassinated. Georgey boy is going to hell 😊. And don't forget the Mafia.

[@ricardocantoral7672]

Tell that to a native of Panama in the late 80's.

[@johnnotrealname8168]

​@@ricardocantoral7672That is actually a good thing what the @#£%?

[@DanielMulloy-bg6gw]

"It's the economy stupid." JC.