When the film opens, U.S. President Judson C. 'Judd' Hammond (Huston) (possibly a reference to Judson Harmon) is variously described as "a Hoover-like partisan hack"[REF] or "basically a do-nothing crook, based on, to some extent, Warren G. Harding."
The film is unique in that, by revoking the Constitution, etc., President Hammond does not become a villain, but a hero who "solves all of the nation's problems,"[REF] "bringing peace to the country and the world,"[REF] and is universally acclaimed "one of the greatest presidents who ever lived."[REF]