The Affairs of the President is a 1990 American film written and directed by Al Gore and produced by Michael Mitchell. The film starred Robert de Niro as the fictional Nationalist President James Broker, and featured an all-star cast including Sibyll Shephard, Nathan Mularkey, John Goodman, Sal Caparza, Michael Kitchen, Kevin Kline, and Samantha Woodward. The film is meant to be a candid look at the US political system, in particular the gray areas involved with corruption and honesty, and asks the audience to decide for itself if anyone within a 'broken system' is blameless or whether anyone should be blamed in the first place.