Presidential Pussy-cat

Socks was the 'First Cat' during the Clinton Follies and only the 4th cat to occupy the White House since FDR.

President-elect Bill Clinton's first executive order:
"Special note to all press from the highest authority: don't touch the cat again."

Socks was involved in one of the myriad Congressional investigations into the Clinton administration. The use of White House staff, postage, and stationery to answer mail addressed to the cat was probed by Rep. Dan Burton. This was perhaps the only Clinton scandal involving a pussy that didn't have Bubba smack in the middle of it.


Socks' position as First Pet was usurped in 1997 by Buddy the Dog.
Apparently Socks despised Buddy from first sight and things went downhill from there.

Ms Clinton wrote a book "Dear Socks, Dear Buddy: Kids’ Letters to the First Pets" in which she claimed that only with the arrival of Socks and his “toy mouse” did the White House “become a home.”

Ms Clinton also lectured readers that pets are an “adoption instead of an acquisition” and warned them to look out for their safety.

Yeah, right.

When the Clintons left the White House in 2001, Buddy the dog went to the house in Chappaqua, and Socks the Cat, like everything else for which the Clintons had no more use, was disposed of.

As of 2006, Socks was still living with former Clinton White House secretary Betty Currie.

Which is more than can be said about Buddy the dog.
Left alone at Chappaqua, he was run over in 2002.

Buddy suffered the same fate as the Clinton's previous dog, a cocker spaniel named Zeke, whom Hillary reportedly did not like having in the Arkansas Governor's mansion.

Word to Seamus, the current Clinton dog: Learn to meow.