A bag of Dee Dee's Dehydrated Mason-Dixon Chicken Dinner dropped into a quart of boiling water produces fried chicken, corn muffins, corn on the cob, mashed potatoes, and apple pie. Also available, Dee Dee's Dehydrated New England Boiled Dinner, and Dee Dee's New Orleans Pompano Dinner with a dehydrated bottle of wine.
The Hooterville Chamber of Commerce votes to give Oliver a $1.35-a-plate testimonial dinner at the Pixley Diner.
Alf and Ralph Monroe complain about their costly phone bill: $8.20 for six months service.
This is the first time in the series that the character of Sarah, the phone operator, appears. Merie Earle, who plays Sarah, was 78 years old when this episode originally aired. She came late to her acting career, making her very first appearance in front of a TV or movie camera in the Petticoat Junction (1963) series episode Is This My Daughter? (1967), which originally aired 9 September 1967, just a little more than a month before the original broadcast of this episode of A Kind Word for the President (1967). She would go on to make four more appearances in this series, all but one of those appearances as Sarah.
Adjusted for inflation, the $1.35 testimonial dinner would cost approximately $12 in the year 2023. The $8.20 phone bill Alf and Ralf received would equal about $75, and the $6,000 Mr. Douglas calculates that Mr. Trendell lost when he ran the phone company would equal approximately $55,000.