Presidents at War

Dwight D. Eisenhower, John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson, Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush. This is the story of how their war experiences change them, how they emerge from conflict as leaders and how the crucible of war shapes the decisions they make when they reach the White House.

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Status	Ended
Original Name	Presidents at War
First Air Date	February 17, 2019
Last Air Date	February 18, 2019
Seasons	1
Episodes	2
Episode Runtime	1h 24min
Language	English
Original Language	English
Production Countries	United Kingdom, Canada
Production Companies	RAW
Networks	History

S01E02

Their Finest Hours

From D-Day to the final Pacific Island hopping campaigns, we see what they experience and how that shapes them as leaders. Nixon faces a barrage of live fire, Bush is shot down in the Pacific, Ford faces kamikazes on the USS Monterey and Eisenhower takes on perhaps the greatest invasion in world history–the invasion of Normandy.

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