Laddie Boy's Birthday

In this black and white photograph, the Hardings family pet Airedale terrier, Laddie Boy, is eating a huge birthday cake with three candles, each topped with a tiny American flag. Hardings presidential campaign slogan was "Return to Normalcy" following the end of World War I, and Laddie Boy was the perfect representation of this shift. He even sat in on meetings and had his own cabinet chair.