usnatarchives: Do you love White House pets? Are you in elementary school? Then we  have a tour for you! On Wednesday, February 13, author Kathryn Gibbs Davis will present  her children’s book, Wackiest White House Pets, at the Jimmy Carter Library. Reservations are required! Image: Amy Carter poses with her doll house and cat, Misty Malarky Ying Yang: 2/3/1978 [Carter Presidential Library, ARC177849]
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Do you love White House pets? Are you in elementary school? Then we  have a tour for you!

On Wednesday, February 13, author Kathryn Gibbs Davis will present  her children’s book, Wackiest White House Pets, at the Jimmy Carter Library.

Reservations are required!

Image: Amy Carter poses with her doll house and cat, Misty Malarky Ying Yang: 2/3/1978 [Carter Presidential Library, ARC177849]

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Source: arcweb.archives.gov

Oh Socks, you ham.  Here are some fun facts courtesy of Dear Socks, Dear Buddy; Kids’ Letters to The First Pets by Hillary Rodham Clinton.

Socks Stats
Type of Cat: Domestic Short Hair
Date of Birth: Unknown
Member of the Clinton Family since: March 1991
Height (Head to Paw): 14.5 inches
Weight: 9 pounds in 1998
Favorite Activity: Taking a Catnap
Favorite Bug to Catch: Spiders
Favorite Hideout in the White House: In a chair outside the Oval Office

Want more photos of Socks? - Meow!

-from the Clinton Library

(via discoverynews)

Source: thedorseyshawexperience

usnatarchives: Our featured cat is Socks, who was photographed at the White House in December of 1993. So we asked Terri Garner, director of the Clinton Presidential Library, to be our guest judge. There was a lot of debate and discussion in Little Rock, but she emailed us a winner today. Congratulations to Jean West! Terri chose your caption on Facebook as the winner for the special LOL cat edition. And if you would like to see more of Socks, check out the full set of photographs on Flickr from the William J. Clinton Presidential Library. The Thursday Photo Caption Contest will return in January 2012 with more humorous images from our holdings. Happy Holidays!
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usnatarchives:

Our featured cat is Socks, who was photographed at the White House in December of 1993. So we asked Terri Garner, director of the Clinton Presidential Library, to be our guest judge. There was a lot of debate and discussion in Little Rock, but she emailed us a winner today.

Congratulations to Jean West! Terri chose your caption on Facebook as the winner for the special LOL cat edition.

And if you would like to see more of Socks, check out the full set of photographs on Flickr from the William J. Clinton Presidential Library.

The Thursday Photo Caption Contest will return in January 2012 with more humorous images from our holdings.

Happy Holidays!

First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton and Socks the cat hang out for the holidays in the White House.  December, 1995. The Clinton Presidential Library is launching a collection of photos in the Flickr Commons.  To start, there’s photos of President Clinton at work, with foreign Heads of State, and for some holiday cheer we’ve found pics of Socks the cat at Christmas time.  Still to come: sets featuring Hillary, Chelsea, events from the Clinton administration, and of course, Buddy, the Clinton’s dog.  Check it out in the U.S. National Archives Flickr Photostream. More - Christmas in the White House with Socks
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First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton and Socks the cat hang out for the holidays in the White House.  December, 1995.

The Clinton Presidential Library is launching a collection of photos in the Flickr Commons.  To start, there’s photos of President Clinton at work, with foreign Heads of State, and for some holiday cheer we’ve found pics of Socks the cat at Christmas time. 

Still to come: sets featuring Hillary, Chelsea, events from the Clinton administration, and of course, Buddy, the Clinton’s dog.  Check it out in the U.S. National Archives Flickr Photostream.

More - Christmas in the White House with Socks

Source: Flickr / usnationalarchives

“I can haz caption?” Yes, thanks to Alexander B. Howard, aka @digiphile, the winner of our LOL-cat caption contest.  Check out all the presidential kitty captions on the National Archives on Facebook.
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“I can haz caption?”

Yes, thanks to Alexander B. Howard, aka @digiphile, the winner of our LOL-cat caption contest.  Check out all the presidential kitty captions on the National Archives on Facebook.

Cat conference. Bill, Hillary, and Chelsea’s pet, “Socks,” on the podium at the White House.  December 5, 1993. -Clinton Library
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Cat conference.

Bill, Hillary, and Chelsea’s pet, “Socks,” on the podium at the White House.  December 5, 1993.

-Clinton Library