President

Fiction: Imagine starring in commercials and traveling in your own campaign bus! Or seeing your face on bumper stickers and T-shirts! If you ran for president, you would get to do these and other fun things, but you would also have to do a lot of hard work. You would study the nation's problems, tell the American people about your platform, and much more. Nonfiction: The president of the United States is the head of state. This means that he or she is the top leader in the country's government. Learn more in President, a title in the People in Our Government series.