Who is The President from Raise the Titanic! and what is their importance?

The President is the President of the United States. He is in his early fifties and is divorced. Now he is serving his last term and then plans to spend his time on a forty foot ketch in the South Pacific. One of his projects is from the Meta Section, which is a group of scientists that perform super secret projects. This is where the secret funding for the salvage operations went through. The Meta Section answers directly to the President.