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Alice Roosevelt with a family parrot, ca. 1904.
Library of Congress2 of 8
Kermit Roosevelt holding his rat terrier Jack, ca. 1902.
Library of Congress3 of 8
President Roosevelt frolics with Rollo, his St. Bernard, ca. 1906.
Theodore Roosevelt Collection, Harvard College Library4 of 8
President Theodore Roosevelt and family, 1907.
Library of Congress5 of 8
Kennedy family at Hyannis Port, Massachusetts, 1963.
John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum/NARA6 of 8
Caroline Kennedy's pet ducks march toward the pond on the South Grounds of the White House.
White House Historical Association7 of 8
John Kennedy, Caroline, and John Jr. with Macaroni outside the Oval Office, 1962.
John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum/NARA8 of 8
Mixed breed Pushinka with her pups on the White House lawn, 1963.
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Two of the youngest presidents to reside in the White House brought their families and a menagerie of pets along with them. A pony, sheep, dogs, cats, a macaw, guinea pigs, rats, a snake, and many more animal friends lived at the Theodore Roosevelt White House. The family of John F. Kennedy brought pet hamsters Debbie and Billie; a gray cat, Tom Kitten; and a canary, Robin, to the White House. Eventually, ponies Macaroni and Tex; Pushinka; Welsh terrier Charley; German shepherd Clipper; cocker spaniel Shannon; parakeets Maybelle and Bluebell; and Wolf, an Irish wolfhound, would come and go.
Biographies & Portraits
Biographies & Portraits
The White House Historical Association and the Eleanor Roosevelt Papers Project present this collaboration in an effort to open a...
Since 1878, American presidents and their families have celebrated Easter Monday by hosting an 'egg roll' party. Held on the South...
Animals, whether pampered household pets, working livestock, birds, squirrels, or strays, have long been a major part of White House...
Abraham Lincoln warned the South in his Inaugural Address, "In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow countrymen, and not in mine,...
James Knox Polk was at home in Columbia, Tennessee, when he judged that it was about time to find out...
The annual Easter Egg Roll at the White House has been a regular public event since 1878 and a subject of...
War-hero Ulysses S. Grant, elected after a bitter war and the emotional impeachment of Andrew Johnson, spent two terms in...
President Richard M. Nixon was the first sitting president to attend the Kentucky Derby on May 3, 1969. In his party that...
Nineteenth century White House Christmas celebrations were not grand state affairs. Instead, most first families of this era decorated the...
The Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C., has often been referred to as “The Nation’s Attic” for its vast holdin...