The automaton President in the book, Talbot Yancy, is known to the people only via a television where he appears and performs grand motivational speeches. I read the first one in the book and it frightened the fuck out of me.

My fellow Americans. You have seen a terrible thing. Nothing is left of Detroit and as you know a good deal of war material has emerged by her fair autofacs, all these years, and now it is lost. But we have sacrificed no human life, the one commodity which we cannot, will not, relinquish.
We shall endure this. With each passing day we grow stronger. Not weaker. You are stronger.