October 10, 2008 5:04PM 

# The President, Our Guardian Angel 

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Gene Healy explains the growth of the role of the president, as portrayed in the 1933 film *Gabriel Over the White House*.

Healy’s book, [*The Cult of the Presidency*](http://www.catostore.org/index.asp?fa=ProductDetails&method=&pid=1441383) examines the dangerous rise of devotion to the nation’s highest political office.

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