Female president of the United States in popular culture president of the United States in two episodes. A 2006 BBC Four adaptation of John Wyndham's short story "Random Quest" depicts the main character being sucked into an alternative reality in which Condoleezza Rice is president of the United States. In ABC's 2008-2009 TV series "Life on Mars" (a remake of BBC's series of the same name), it is hinted that Malia Obama, the daughter of then-candidate Barack Obama, is the president of the United States in 2035. In Showtime's TV series "Homeland", which began in 2011, Elizabeth Marvel plays United States President Elizabeth Keane. In ABC's TV series "Scandal",
Malia (canoe) Catalina-to-Newport race in 1959 was the alleged pirating of a fiberglass plug of the "Malia". This shell, reportedly taken without authorization while the "Malia" awaited shipment back to Hawaii, was later made into a mold. From this mold, and the hulls that came from it, other molds were made. The majority of the fiberglass canoes in use in Hawaii and California today have been made from these molds. Thus the "Malia" inadvertently sired a noble fleet of fiberglass-and-resin-canoes. In 1960, a California-made fiberglass model of the "Mālia" competed in the annual paddling race across the Molokai Channel (the Molokai Hoe)