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* ''[[Our Man Flint]]'' from 1966 has a scene where the president, addressing the world to announce capitulation to the bad guys, is told to stall -- he hems and haws in a Johnson-esque drawl.
* The second movie of ''[[National Treasure]]'' both plays it straight and subverts it. In the reenactment of [[Abraham Lincoln|Lincoln's]] assassination by John Wilkes Booth, only Lincoln's back and a part of his head was shown ''even though it is very obvious'' that it's him and using his name and likeness is legal under the protection of the First Amendment.
** Fast forward to the present time, the current President is fictional. Yet he is still unnamed, only being referred to as "The President".
* ''[[The Tenth Kingdom]]'' has Virginia answering a bland, "The President!" when the trolls are interrogating her on who rules her land.
* A ''[[Three Stooges]]'' short has them prospecting for gold and inadvertently breaking into a federal gold vault. They explain they were trying to pay for a sick kid's operation to a heard but not seen [[Franklin Roosevelt|FDR]], who pardons them and pays for the operation, because he's a swell guy.
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* The President during the time period that ''[[The Adventures of Fox Tayle]]'' takes place (late 2005 to early 2006, [[Series Hiatus|so far]]) is [[George W. Bush]]. Fox Tayle was created in a canceled government project and he escaped, and now the FBI is after him. His long-term goal is to talk to the president to try to get some personal rights and to stop being chased (so far, Bush has only been mentioned twice in the story).
* There's a double-whammy in the ''[[Doctor Who]]'' [[Virgin New Adventures|New Adventures]] novel ''The Dying Days''; it's set in 1997, but at the time of publication (1996) both the American and British national elections were being contested, thus meaning that the identities of both the President and the Prime Minister are deliberately kept vague.
* In book 21 of ''[[Animorphs]]'', the main characters break up a summit of several world leaders, and go to great lengths to not refer to the president, or any of the other heads of state, by name. They even decline to mention what ''country'' one of the leaders represents, as he had had a little too much to drink and [[Too Dumb to Live|refuses to get out of the way of a rampaging elephant]]. Averted in the last book, which explicitly refers to President Clinton.
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* [[Richard Nixon]] appears in a relatively early issue of ''Daredevil'', specifically identified as Nixon.
* Then-president [[Bill Clinton]] actually delivered the eulogy at [[The Death of Superman|Superman's funeral]]. His face was clearly visible, and [[Hillary Rodham Clinton]] was there, too.
** In a less glamorous moment for Slick Willie, his Marvel Universe self also personally kicked [[Captain America (comics)]] out of the country after Cap had been accused of treason. Of course, once Cap's name was cleared, he welcomed him back.
* Until recently, the usual unwritten policy at both Marvel and DC was that the president's face could be shown, but his name never be used; he would always just be called "Mr. President". Marvel broke this rule recently with a few appearances by [[Barack Obama]] in which he's referred to by name.
** DC went the opposite route in 2000, when [[Lex Luthor]] [[President Evil|was elected president]]. Ever since then, the president in the DCU has always been a fictional character, which obviously allows them to do whatever they want with him.
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* A first season episode of ''[[JAG]]'' used stock footage of [[Bill Clinton]] jogging through a park, edited to look like Harm, who was jogging the other way, passed him.
** The second season opener starts with [[Bill Clinton]] presenting Harm with the Distinguished Flying Cross. Again stock footage was edited into the show.
** In one episode, Bud Roberts carried the so-called "football" for [[George W. Bush]], and archived footage of the President was used in the episode.
* Averted in two ways in ''[[Lie to Me (TV series)|Lie to Me]]''. The show has a habit of using still images of famous people to illustrate whatever emotion they're talking about, and a solid majority of these seem to be recent US Presidents (as well as Presidential candidates and Vice Presidents). In addition, President Obama has been referred by name to at least twice so far by the characters in the show.
* [[Margaret Thatcher]] famously appeared as herself in a sketch she wrote for ''[[Yes Minister]]''.
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