White House Pets

• Before Bo, two Scottish terriers shared the title of First Dog. Here, Barney, center, and Miss Beazley, left, romp near then-President George W. Bush.
  
  
  

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• The Bushes also had a cat, India. She died Jan. 4 at the age of 18, Laura Bush's office said. Barbara Bush, then 9, named the female black domestic shorthair after baseball player Ruben Sierra, known as El Indio. India, shown dressed up for Halloween in 2007, was also known as "Willie."
  
  
  

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• Socks, held here by first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton in 1999, did not get along with their chocolate Labrador retriever, Buddy, here with President Clinton in 1998. When the Clintons left the White House, Socks moved in with Betty Currie, Bill Clinton's former secretary. Socks died Feb. 19 at approximately age 19. Buddy was struck by a car and killed in January 2002.
  
  
  

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• George H.W. Bush had Millie, who co-authored a book as "told to" first lady Barbara Bush. 'Millie's Book' became a best-seller that outsold the 41st president's own memoirs. Here, Millie walks with her owners on the White House South Lawn in 1992.
  
  
  

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• The Reagans originally had a Bouvier des Flandres named Lucky, given to Nancy Reagan by the 1985 March of Dimes poster child Kristen Ellis. Lucky moved to the family's California ranch in 1995 after getting too big for the White House and was succeeded by Rex, a Cavalier King spaniel, here with his owners in 1986.
  
  
  

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• The Carters shared their presidential palace with a dog named Grits, here being petted by President Jimmy Carter in 1978. Grits was given to first daughter Amy Carter by one of her teachers. The family also shared the White House with Misty Malarky Ying Yang, Amy's Siamese cat.
  
  
  

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• President Gerald Ford often sat with his dog Liberty, a golden retriever, in the Oval Office. Liberty had a litter of pups while at the White House. Shan, first daughter Susan Ford's Siamese cat, also lived there.
  
  
  

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• President Nixon pats the head of his Irish setter, King Timahoe, as he walks from the Executive Office building to the White House on April 30, 1970. White House electrician Traphes Bryant holds back the other first family pets -- Pasha, a Yorkshire terrier, and Vickie, a miniature French poodle.
  
  
  

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• President Lyndon Johnson had beagles named Him and Her, a white collie named Blanco and a mixed breed named Yuki, here with the president and his grandson in 1968. Johnson's daughter, Lucy, found Yuki at a gas station in Texas on Thanksgiving Day in 1966.
  
  
  

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• The Kennedys were lucky they weren't required to have a zoo license during their time in the White House, from 1961 to 1963. The family's animals included dogs, rabbits, guinea pigs, ducks and a pony.
  
  
  

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