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Like many of the Magic Kingdom's opening day attractions, the Hall of Presidents started out as an idea for Disneyland. In the late 1950s Walt Disney wanted to create an attraction called "One “One Nation Under God" in the late 1950s. The attraction would have been a film God”, which was to be about American greatness , and the Constitution. The grand finale of the attraction was going to be life size Audio Animtronics Animatronics of all the United States Presidents joining together on stage, concluding with Abraham Lincoln giving a speech. Technological limitations however, made the show unrealistic at that time, and the idea was eventually scrapped.

Although the Audio Animatronic technology was still underdevelopmentunder development, Walt agreed to create a show around an Audio Animtronic Abraham Lincoln for the Illinois Pavilion at the 1964 World's World’s Fair. The show that Disney came up with was called "Great titled, “Great Moments With Mr. Lincoln", and Lincoln”. The new attraction was essentially a scaled down own version of the "One “One Nation Under God" God” show. Instead , however instead of focusing on all of the American presidents howeverPresidents, the new show focused solely on Abraham Lincoln. Great Moments With Mr. Lincoln narrowed in on only Abraham Lincolnconsisted of two separate parts. The film portion first half of the attraction told his show was a film that gave Lincoln’s biography , and like its predecessor, the show concluded with the Audio Animtronic Animatronic Lincoln giving a speech. Great Moments With Mr. Lincoln was such a huge success at the World's Fair, so that Disney decided to move the attraction to his Disneylandpark. One year after the Worlds World’s Fair, Great Moments with Mr. Lincoln opened on Main Street USA. The show was free for guests, and was once again proved to be quite popular.

 When planning Walt Disney WorldDue to its popularity, instead of just creating a copy of Great Moments for with Mr. Lincoln, Imagineers revisited was one of the idea attractions considered for inclusion in (yet unopened) Walt Disney World. Instead of recreating the attraction however, Imagineers decided to revisit the One Nation Under God showconcept. Although they kept the basic premise of In the showtime between Walt’s original idea, and the changed the tame to the "Hall creation of Presidents". Technology Disney World, technology had improved to the point that creating Audio Animatronic figures for every President was possible. Furthermore, and the Magic Kingdom also had the space available for such a large stage to be created. When Renaming the Magic Kingdom opened in 1971 attraction the Hall of Presidents , the show opened with itthe rest of the Magic Kingdom on October 1, 1971. The Hall, along with the Country Bear Jamboree and the Mickey Mouse Revue , was one of the three unique (not from Disneyland) attractions on that opened with the Magic Kingdom's opening day.