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What do SCOTUS, POTUS, and FLOTUS mean?
What do SCOTUS, POTUS, and FLOTUS mean?
The acronyms began as telegraph codes
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“POTUS.” The Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster Inc., https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/POTUS. Accessed 23 January 2020.
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The first known use of POTUS was in 1895
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