blair underwood plays the president of the united states and appeared mesmerized by the report. was probably wondering, where is doreen? betty white has been making us laugh for a lot of years. but tears were on display during herecent visit to washington. craig melvin has more on how she got to live her childhood drm of becoming a forest ranger. >> we present you with this forestry badge. >> reporter: betty white has loved smoky the bear since well since there was a smoky the bear. she was born 22 years before he was drawn. tuesday, the age defying superstar who turned a super bowl snickers commercial into the greatest career revivalin, well, quite possibly the history of television, got a badge, a hat, and a ne title. forest ranger. >> i just can't tell you what this day means to me. >> reporter: we've seen lots of betty lately playing beer pong with jimmy roasting shatner and saturday night she won an emmy and sent ratings soaring. long before the fame, though, there were family vacations to thwoods. >> and my first memories are riding in front of my dad on his horse as we pa

it's you, blair underwood is the president. >> yeah.es, she's great. >> yeah, everyone is. it's a great cast. we're really excited. >> jimmy: you don't play, like, the typical type of hero. >> yeah. no. he's -- well, he's like you or me. >> jimmy: yeah. >> he's -- maybe spends a little too much time on the computer and things like that. [ laughter ] >> jimmy: yeah. i guess so. what is your background, your character? >> yeah. he, like, went to m.i.t. and he -- he's a video game programmer. and basically his girlfriend disappears, and he has to go find her, and then he has to do all kinds of things that he never thought he would do. things that guys like you and me probably would not -- >> jimmy: wouldn't normally -- yeah. but it's exciting. it's so cool. the story behind this -- maybe i'm wrong. who wrote this? >> nick wauters. >> jimmy: nick wauters. he came up with this idea -- i'm gonna say four years ago. >> yeah, that's right. >> jimmy: he wrote it out, didn't pitch it to anybody, didn't sell it to anybody, wrote out five seasons o