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- Resides in the White House, Washington, D.C.
- Commander-in-Chief of the U.S. Military
- Appoints an advisory staff known as the Presidential Cabinet
- Indirectly elected by U.S. Citizens
- Term lasts for four years
- 23rd Amendment to the U.S. Constitution limits the president to no more than two consecutive terms
- First U.S. President: George Washington
- Current U.S. President: BARACK OBAMA
- First black AMERICAN PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA..
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The president is the head of state for the United States of America. He is both the national figurehead as well as the leader of the Executive Branch of the Federal Government.
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Checks and Balances
The President's Executive Branch is only one of three divisions of the U.S. Government. The Legislative Branch and Judicial Branch all work together in a system of "checks and balances" to ensure that no branch can exercise an unfair amount of authority over any other one. -
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United States Presidents
- George Washington
- John Adams
- Thomas Jefferson
- James Madison
- James Monroe
- John Quincy Adams
- Andrew Jackson
- Martin Van Buren
- William Henry Harrison
- John Tyler
- James K. Polk
- Zachary Taylor
- Millard Fillmore
- Franklin Pierce
- James Buchanan
- Abraham Lincoln
- Andrew Johnson
- Ulysses S. Grant
- Rutherford B. Hayes
- James A. Garfield
- Chester A. Arthur
- Grover Cleveland
- Benjamin Harrison
- Grover Cleveland
- William McKinley
- Theodore Roosevelt
- William H. Taft
- Woodrow Wilson
- Warren G. Harding
- Calvin Coolidge
- Herbert Hoover
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Harry Truman
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
- John F. Kennedy
- Lyndon Johnson
- Richard Nixon
- Gerald Ford
- Jimmy Carter
- Ronald Reagan
- George H. W. Bush
- Bill Clinton
- George W. Bush
- Barack Obama
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