On Sunday, Joe Biden’s granddaughter Naomi gave us an update on the presidential dogs Champ and Major:
I love this piece by Matthew Dessem at Slate. He ranks all the presidential pets. I won’t tell you which pet comes in at #1, but here are some my favorites:
- Donald Trump’s “metaphorical dogs”
- Benjamin Harrison’s pet possums “Mr. Protection” and “Mr. Reciprocity”
- “Dick,” Thomas Jefferson’s mockingbird
- “Pauline Wayne,” William Howard Taft’s cow
- James Garfield’s dog “Veto”
- Richard Nixon’s dog “King Timahoe”
- Teddy Roosevelt’s bear “Jonathan Edwards”
- “Fido,” Abraham Lincoln’s dog
- “Old Ike,” Woodrow Wilson’s ram
Read the entire piece here.