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A White House without dogs? An alternate history of presidents minus the pups
https://www.yahoo.com/politics/a-white-house-without-dogs-an-alternate-history-119860333936.html“I don’t own a dog.” — Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., explaining why he doesn’t post Facebook pictures of his pets.
Every president since Theodore Roosevelt has had a dog in the White House, and almost certainly the next one will, too —unless it’s Bernie Sanders. How would history have been different without them?...
1952: Vice presidential candidate Richard M. Nixon, accused of accepting unreported gifts from supporters, goes on national television and vows to keep his daughter Tricia’s pet, Checkers, an eastern spotted salamander. Public revulsion forces Nixon off the ticket; Dwight Eisenhower replaces him with Harold Stassen and goes on to lose the election in a landslide....
2012: New York Times columnist Gail Collins writes six consecutive columns about the time Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney, on a vacation trip to Canada, tied a kayak to the roof of his station wagon and asked his wife, Ann, to hold the family’s pet turtle, Seamus, in her lap. No one else pays any attention, and Romney defeats President Barack Obama in a landslide.
Every president since Theodore Roosevelt has had a dog in the White House, and almost certainly the next one will, too —unless it’s Bernie Sanders. How would history have been different without them?...
1952: Vice presidential candidate Richard M. Nixon, accused of accepting unreported gifts from supporters, goes on national television and vows to keep his daughter Tricia’s pet, Checkers, an eastern spotted salamander. Public revulsion forces Nixon off the ticket; Dwight Eisenhower replaces him with Harold Stassen and goes on to lose the election in a landslide....
2012: New York Times columnist Gail Collins writes six consecutive columns about the time Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney, on a vacation trip to Canada, tied a kayak to the roof of his station wagon and asked his wife, Ann, to hold the family’s pet turtle, Seamus, in her lap. No one else pays any attention, and Romney defeats President Barack Obama in a landslide.
