Acting president of the United States is a reference to a person who is legitimately exercising presidential powers even though that person does not hold the office of the President of the United States in his own right.
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“United States! the ages plead,—
Present and Past in under-song,—
Go put your creed into your deed,—
Nor speak with double tongue.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
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—David Thomas (b. 1959)
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—Gore Vidal (b. 1925)
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—Zora Neale Hurston (1891–1960)
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—Benjamin Harrison (1833–1901)