American Constitution is quite succinct as to qualifications and responsibilities of president of United Under Article II, Section 1, the executive power shall be vested in a President of United of America, who must be a natural born citizen, at least thirty-five years of age, and been fourteen years a resident. Article II, Section 2 specifies president's responsibilities and duties. He is commander in chief of Army and Navy of United States and will have power to make treaties, appoint ambassadors, other public and consuls, judges of Supreme Court, and all other officers of United States. Section 3 adds to these responsibilities State of Union address and empowers president to convene Congress on extraordinary occasions and to receive ambassadors and other public ministers and take care that laws be faithfully executed, and shall commission all officers of United States. But Americans consider more than constitutional job description when electing a president. There is an of [that] is embedded in public mind.(1) Thomas E. Cronin would describe this impression as an unwritten presidential job description, one we carry around in our heads, which is weighed in when making a presidential choice: It calls for president to be a visionary problem-solver, a unifying force for nation, a healer and sage. Thus, every four years we search anew for a superstar blessed with judgement of Washington, brilliance of Jefferson, genius of Lincoln, political savvy of FDR, and youthful grace of JFK.(2) This vision of presidency as all-powerful superstar was, according to Cronin, particularly potent in 1940-1966 period.(3) next decade (1966-1977) Vietnam, Watergate, and Nixon--tarnished star's luster but did not dim it. quadrennial search continues. Cronin, in State of Presidency, discusses sources of this impression of as being derived from 1950s and 1960s textbooks and from prime-time television. Their sources, no doubt, are rooted in FDR, who rescued nation from the depths of Great Depression and was a stalwart solider of freedom, and in Truman, who brought World War II to a proud conclusion.(4) This article will argue for a third element to be added to these two to make a triadic presidential mythos. Popular political fiction of 1960s and early 1970s provides a third source for presidential mythos, a source that is remarkably consistent with textbook and prime-time images of presidency. But before examining third, literary element of mythos, what is textbook and prime-time presidency? College texts of 1950s and 1960s describe a that was growing dramatically larger, gaining significantly more resources, and responsibilities.(5) presidency, according to these texts, had already acquired mythic stature and power. Clinton Rossiter, in American Presidency, even describes as a mythic source: The final greatness of Presidency lies in truth that it is not just an office of power but a breeding ground of indestructible myth.(6) This incredible power, real and mythic, of is practically imperial, as a look at a sample presidential job description from an introductory text proves: If President is a king, it is equally clear he is no mere constitutional monarch. For in an era in which many monarchies all over world have disappeared, and power of kings has declined, power of President has enormously increased ... attributable mainly to fact that President is literal embodiment of American mass democracy.(7) Cronin also asserts that television is another source of American presidential mythos, making president hero of silver screen. …