Presidential Pooches

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A great arti­cle from Nation­al Geo­graph­ic on Amer­i­can Pres­i­dents & their fur­ry friends!

(Official White House Photo by Chuck Kennedy)

Bo Oba­ma (Offi­cial White House Pho­to by Chuck Kennedy)

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Pres­i­dent Richard Nixon With His Dog Check­ers.

“On this day in 1952, vice pres­i­den­tial can­di­date Richard Nixon made a speech that defined his career and set the tone for the next six decades of polit­i­cal communications—and that speech would forever be named for his pet cock­er spaniel, Check­ers…

“There’s some­thing about Sep­tem­ber 23 that brings out the dogs among politicians…Now, in some cor­ners of the Inter­net, Sep­tem­ber 23 is cel­e­brat­ed as Dogs in Pol­i­tics Day. A dou­ble mean­ing, since both FDR and Nixon allud­ed to their pets to avoid hound­ing from polit­i­cal oppo­nents.” –Read The Rest Here!