--- description: Tony Goldwyn, who plays President Fitzgerald Grant on the hit ABC show, thinks the former First Lady would make a great commander-in-chief title: Tony Goldwyn, Scandal Cast Attend TIME People Cocktail Party image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltb76db5947a6bd178/69868dab13c79f0780191ed7/487876213.jpg?branch=production&width=1440&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  * [Entertainment](/section/entertainment/) ## Entertainment Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close * [celebrities](/tag/celebrities/) ## celebrities Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # _Scandal_'s President Wants Hillary Clinton in the Oval Office by [Maya Rhodan](/author/maya-rhodan/) ## Maya Rhodan Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close May 3, 2014 1:41 PM CUT  Tony Goldwyn and Dan Bucatinsky at the TIME/People WHCD cocktail party at St Regis Hotel - Astor Terrace on May 2, 2014 in Washington, DC. Tony Goldwyn and Dan Bucatinsky at the TIME/People WHCD cocktail party at St Regis Hotel - Astor Terrace on May 2, 2014 in Washington, DC.Larry Busacca—Getty Images for TIME by [Maya Rhodan](/author/maya-rhodan/) ## Maya Rhodan Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close May 3, 2014 1:41 PM CUT Tony Goldwyn may stand in the Oval Office every week on the set of ABC’s _Scandal_, but the actor—who plays President Fitzgerald “Fitz” Grant on the hit show—called standing in the real deal “surreal.” “I looked up to see if there were any cameras but I couldn’t find any,” the actor told TIME of his [visit](http://popwatch.ew.com/2014/05/02/scandal-white-house-tony-goldwyn-oval-office/ "undefined") to the White House this week. “There’s also a ceiling in the real office—there’s no ceiling in ours.” Goldwyn and many other _Scandal_ cast members attended the TIME/_People_ pre-White House Correspondents’ Dinner cocktail party on Friday. And though the actor who plays the show’s president says he drew inspiration for his character from Presidents Obama, Clinton and Kennedy, the person he’d most like to see as commander-in-chief was once a First Lady. “\[Hillary Clinton\] is the most qualified candidate out there,” Goldwyn said. “She’s got the intelligence, she’s inspiring, and she’s tough.” ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/86649/scandal-president-hillary-clinton/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/86649/scandal-president-hillary-clinton/"},"headline":"Scandal's President Wants Hillary Clinton in the Oval Office","datePublished":"2014-05-03T13:41:37.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-21T07:38:17.681Z","description":"Tony Goldwyn, who plays President Fitzgerald Grant on the hit ABC show, thinks the former First Lady would make a great commander-in-chief","url":"https://time.com/86649/scandal-president-hillary-clinton/","keywords":["celebrities","Media","TIME","People","White House Correspondents Dinner"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltb76db5947a6bd178/69868dab13c79f0780191ed7/487876213.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Maya Rhodan","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/maya-rhodan/"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltb76db5947a6bd178/69868dab13c79f0780191ed7/487876213.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"TIME/People WHCD Cocktail Party","caption":"TIME/People WHCD Cocktail Party","creditText":"Larry Busacca—Getty Images for TIME","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/celebrities/","name":"celebrities"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/86649/scandal-president-hillary-clinton/","name":"Scandal's President Wants Hillary Clinton in the Oval Office"}}]}] ```