Presidential leaders

Discusses the private life and political career of Harry S. Truman, who served as President from 1945 to 1953.

Profiles John Adams, an influential patriot during the American Revolution who became the nation's first vice president and second president.

Follows the life and career of the statesman who, after the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, became the seventeenth president of the United States.

Learn about the life of this president.

In the aftermath of the Watergate scandal, then Vice President Gerald Ford became the first person to succeed a president who had resigned from office. Although Ford's presidency lasted only three years, he worked diligently to heal a country from war, inflation, and controversy. Ford began a career serving his country in World War II, eventually becoming a lieutenant commander in the Navy. In 1948 he was elected to the United States Congress, where...