Mr. President (board game)

Mr. President is a board game for 2-4 players designed to represent an actual Presidential campaign using data from the 1960s.

Mr. President was designed by Jack Carmichael, and was published by 3M as part of their "3M Bookshelf Games" series in 1967, as potential candidates for 1968 election campaign began to marshall their forces.

[4] Time commented, "By the final tally, players will have suffered—on paper, anyway—all the slings and arrows that a live presidential campaigner must endure" and concluded "In some ways, the verisimilitude to the realities of real life politics is downright cynical.

"[5] The Arlington Heights Daily Herald called this "a battle of strategy" geared "for teen-agers and adults", concluding that it was "an excellent refresher course for boning up on politics.

"[3] Writing for Mit 80 Spielen durch das Jahr in 2021, Wieland Herald called the fact that Mr. President was never marketed in Germany "a pity [...] The fundamental decisions about which states to fight and which to surrender are exciting."