Guest Stars William Daniels as John Quincy Adams Thomas A. Stewart as Charles Francis Adams George Hearn as Henry Clay Maureen Anderman as Mary Catherine Hellen Tom Hulce as Student Bernie McInerney as Roger Sherman Baldwin Jean-Pierre Stewart as Alexis de Tocqueville Roger Alan Brown as Pinckney Norman Bush as Cinque Jerome Dempsey as Lewis Tappan Ronald Dawson as Chief Justice Taney