The Golden Girls (TV Series)

The President's Coming! The President's Coming! Part 2 (1990)

Betty White: Rose Nylund

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Quotes 

• Rose Nylund : Is the Oval Office as hard to vacuum as I think it is?

  George Bush : I don't know, there hasn't been a Hoover in the White House in 60 years.

• Agent Bell : [a Secret Service agent is checking the Girls' household before the presidential visit]  I only have one more question to ask. What organizations do you belong to? We have to make sure none of them could be considered a threat to the president.

  Dorothy Zbornak : Oh, well, I'm a member of the Sierra Club, and Blanche belongs to the Daughters of the Confederacy.

  Rose Nylund : And I'm a member of the Otto Club of St Olaf. Well, actually I'm an honorary member. My name's not Otto.

  [to be read aloud; this line is a spoken pun, which doesn't really work in writing] 

  Agent Bell : I don't think that group could be considered subversive.

  Rose Nylund : Subversive?

  Agent Bell : You know, as in, 'Do you advocate the overthrow of the government by force or violence.'

  Rose Nylund : [after thinking it over]  Violence.

  Dorothy Zbornak : [annoyed by her stupidity]  Rose!

• Rose Nylund : Hello, Mr. President. Can I ask you something?

  George Bush : Well, sure.

  Rose Nylund : Is the Oval Office as hard to vacuum as I think it is?

  George Bush : Well, I don't know. There hasn't been a Hoover in the White House in 60 years.