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The word president is derived from the Latin prae- "before" + sedere "to sit." As such, it originally designated the officer who "sits before" a gathering and ensures that debate is conducted according to the rules of order (see also chairman and speaker). Early examples are from the universities of Oxford and Cambridge (from 1464) and the founding President of the Royal Society William Brouncker in 1660. This usage survives today in the title of such offices as "President of the Board of Trade... full article at wikipedia

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When the President does it, that means that it is not illegal.	Richard Nixon
Meeting Franklin Roosevelt was like opening your first bottle of champagne; knowing him was like drinking it.	Winston Churchill
When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President. Now I'm beginning to believe it.	Clarence Darrow
The President has paid dear for his White House. It has commonly cost him all his peace, and the best of his manly attributes. To preserve for a short time so conspicuous an appearance before the world, he is content to eat dust before the real masters who stand erect behind the throne.	Ralph Waldo Emerson
If you want to see your plays performed the way you wrote them, become President.	Václav Havel
In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take.	Adlai E. Stevenson
Under a Presidential government, a nation has, except at the electing moment, no influence; it has not the ballot-box before it; its virtue is gone, and it must wait till its instant of despotism again returns.	Walter Bagehot
But there are advantages to being elected President. The day after I was elected, I had my high school grades classified Top Secret.	Ronald Reagan
A President is best judged by the enemies he makes when he has really hit his stride.	Max Lerner
The President is the people's lobbyist.	Hubert Humphrey
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