United States Presidential Pets
This is a list of pets belonging to United States Presidents and their families, while serving their term(s) in office.
Read more about United States Presidential Pets: History of White House Dogs, List of Presidential Pets
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“Places where he might live and die and never hear of the United States, which make such a noise in the world,never hear of America, so called from the name of a European gentleman.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)
“Scarcely any political question arises in the United States that is not resolved, sooner or later, into a judicial question.”
—Alexis de Tocqueville (18051859)
“If the Union is now dissolved it does not prove that the experiment of popular government is a failure.... But the experiment of uniting free states and slaveholding states in one nation is, perhaps, a failure.... There probably is an irrepressible conflict between freedom and slavery. It may as well be admitted, and our new relations may as be formed with that as an admitted fact.”
—Rutherford Birchard Hayes (18221893)
“Because of these convictions, I made a personal decision in the 1964 Presidential campaign to make education a fundamental issue and to put it high on the nations agenda. I proposed to act on my belief that regardless of a familys financial condition, education should be available to every child in the United Statesas much education as he could absorb.”
—Lyndon Baines Johnson (19081973)
“We died like aunts of pets or foreigners.”
—Randall Jarrell (19141965)