Within These Walls: A Tour of the White House
A special that takes a look inside the White House.

Main Cast
George H. W. Bush
George Herbert Walker Bush was an American politician who served as the 41st President of the United States from 1989 to 1993. Prior to assuming the presidency, Bush served as the 43rd Vice President of the United States from 1981 to 1989. As a member of the Republican Party, he had previously been a representative, ambassador and director of CIA.
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Barbara Bush
Barbara Bush is a former First Lady of the United States and married to former President George H.W. Bush who served from January 20, 1989 - January 20, 1993.
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Stanley Anderson
Stanley Anderson (October 23, 1939 – June 24, 2018) was an American actor. He was born in Billings, Montana.[1] He appeared in Deceived, RoboCop 3 and The Pelican Brief. He was known for starring as Drew Carey's father in The Drew Carey Show. He also starred in Seinfeld and in Spider-Man.
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Franklin D. Roosevelt
Franklin Delano Roosevelt, commonly known as FDR, was an American statesman and political leader who served as the President of the United States from 1933 to 1945.
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Harry S. Truman
Harry S. Truman was the 33rd president of the United States, serving from 1945 to 1953. A leader of the Democratic Party, he previously served as the 34th vice president from January to April 1945 under Franklin Roosevelt and as a United States senator from Missouri from 1935 to January 1945.
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John F. Kennedy
John Fitzgerald Kennedy was the 35th President of the United States. He served from 1961 until his assassination in 1963.
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Richard Nixon
Richard Milhous Nixon (January 9, 1913 – April 22, 1994) was the 37th president of the United States, serving from 1969 to 1974. A member of the Republican Party, Nixon previously served as the 36th vice president from 1953 to 1961, having risen to national prominence as a representative and senator from California. After five years in the White House that saw the conclusion to the U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War, détente with the Soviet Union and China, and the establishment of the Environmental Protection Agency, he became the only president to resign from the office, following the Watergate scandal. Description above from the Wikipedia article Richard Nixon, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Lyndon B. Johnson
Lyndon Baines Johnson, often referred to by the initials LBJ, was an American politician who served as the 36th president of the United States from 1963 to 1969. Formerly the 37th vice president from 1961 to 1963, he assumed the presidency following the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. A Democrat from Texas, Johnson also served as a United States Representative and as the Majority Leader in the United States Senate.
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Jimmy Carter
James Earl Carter Jr. (October 1, 1924 – December 29, 2024) was an American politician and humanitarian who served as 39th president of the United States from 1977 to 1981. A member of the Democratic Party, he was the longest-lived president in U.S. history, and the first to reach 100 years of age.
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The Roaring Twenties
1939
Twenty Years After
1944
The Golden Twenties
1950
Herbert Hoover
Herbert Clark Hoover (August 10, 1874 - October 20, 1964) was an American politician and engineer who served as the 31st president of the United States from 1929 to 1933 and a member of the Republican Party, holding office during the onset of the Great Depression
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Jacqueline Kennedy
Jacqueline Lee Kennedy Onassis (née Bouvier / July 28, 1929 – May 19, 1994) was an American socialite, writer, and photographer who became First Lady of the United States as the wife of President John F. Kennedy. Her popularity as First Lady was due to her devotion to historical preservation of the White House, her fashion sense, and her devotion to her children, which endeared her to the American public. During her lifetime, Jackie was regarded as an international fashion icon. Her ensemble of a pink Chanel suit and matching pillbox hat that she wore in Dallas, Texas, when the president was assassinated on November 22, 1963, has become a symbol of her husband's death.
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Pat Nixon
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Miracle
2004
The Presidents' Gatekeepers
2013
Winston Churchill
Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill, KG, OM, CH, TD, DL, FRS, RA was a British statesman who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1940 to 1945, during the Second World War, and again from 1951 to 1955.
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Leonid Brezhnev
Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev (19 December 1906 – 10 November 1982) was a Soviet politician who led the Soviet Union as General Secretary of the governing Communist Party (1964–1982) and as Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet (1960–1964, 1977–1982). His 18-year term as general secretary was second only to Joseph Stalin's in duration. While Brezhnev's rule was characterised by political stability and significant foreign policy successes, it was also marked by corruption, inefficiency, economic stagnation, and rapidly growing technological gaps with the West. Description above from the Wikipedia article Leonid Brezhnev, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Movie Details
Production Info
- Director:
- David E. Gerber
- Writer:
- David E. Gerber
- Production:
- QED Enterprises
Key Crew
- Additional Photography:
- Francis Kenny
- Executive Producer:
- James C. Rogal
- Editor:
- David E. Gerber
- Producer:
- David E. Gerber
Locations and Languages
- Country:
- US
- Filming:
- US
- Languages:
- en