The Jazz Age Coolidge cats’ meows were a distant echo in the White House by the time the John F. Kennedy family moved there in 1961. In the interim there was plenty a First Dog but nary a First Feline…. Read More ›
Cats of the White House
The Cool Cats of Coolidge (Cats in the White House, Part 6)
This article resumes the series begun last autumn on Cats in the White House, previous installments covering the Fillmore, Lincoln, Hayes and Theodore Roosevelt Administrations. Coolidge liked cats. But you’d never know it from popular history. It’s the startling vision… Read More ›
The Teddy Cats: Slippers & Quartz Roosevelt, (Cats in the White House, Part 5)
When Theodore Roosevelt succeeded to the presidency upon McKinley’s assassination in September of 1901, he brought not only his wife and five children but soon enough accumulated a breadth of other beings which constituted a bona fide White House zoo…. Read More ›
The Never-Was McKinley Kittens: Neither Killed Cats (Cats in the White House, Part 4)
Presidents and First Ladies are often uncredited for many things which they do. And there are those who are blamed for many things they never did. Like the legend that Dolley Madison started the annual tradition of the Easter Egg… Read More ›
The Foreign Feline of President Hayes: First Siamese Cat in the U.S. (Cats in the White House, Part 3)
The cat who lived in the White House as part of the family of President Rutherford Hayes and his wife Lucy is particularly significant on two accounts. First, the relatively brief life and times of the cat were well-chronicled during… Read More ›
Kitten-Loving Lincoln & His White House Cat Team (Cats in the White House, Part 2)
There was no question he was an intelligent man and a sensitive one. It is hardly a surprise how he reverentially treated animals. In fact, before he left Springfield, Illinois for what would be hist last time home, president-elect Abraham… Read More ›
Millard Fillmore, the First Cat President? (Cats in the White House, Part 1)
For those who love and share their lives with Cats, this is the first in an anticipated series about those Presidential Families who did likewise. We know next to nothing about the plurality of cats that lived in the White… Read More ›
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