In an effort to add to the small body of published psychoanalytic data concerning the psychological position of the chief political figure in a state, the reactions of thirty analysands to the death of the President of the United States were studied. It was found that the President personified for them the mother imago from early infancy, the figure that omnipotently satisfied all needs. The solution or lessening of anxiety, grief and guilt was accomplished through transferring the belief in omnipotence to some other persons closely connected with the President.