(They don't necessarily have to be a matched pair.)
Despite my ardor for Morgan Freeman's President Beck in Deep Impact, and despite my fondness for the delectable pairing of Jack Lemmon and James Garner as former presidents Kramer and Douglas in My Fellow Americans, I think I've got to give top honors to Kevin Kline's Dave:
And although I do love Sigourney Weaver's First Lady Ellen Mitchell in that film, my hands-down favorite movie First Lady of all time is Shirley MacLaine's Tess Carlisle, a character loosely based on real-life former First Lady Bess Truman, in Guarding Tess:
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