NEW YORK TIMES: Showing an affinity for dogs usually plays well to the public, which could serve as a minor problem for Republican hopeful Scott Walker, who is allergic.
NEW YORK TIMES: Showing an affinity for dogs usually plays well to the public, which could serve as a minor problem for Republican hopeful Scott Walker, who is allergic.
At the Newseum in Washington, the “First Dogs: American Presidents and Their Pets” exhibit is listed as “on display indefinitely.” On the National Mall, the memorial to Franklin D. Roosevelt depicts his Scottish terrier, Fala, forever at his feet. Puppy love in presidential campaigns dates at least to Herbert Hoover, who loosened up his stiff image by posing, paws in hands, with King Tut, his Belgian Malinois, on the way to victory in 1928.
“It humanizes them,” said Claire McLean, the founder of the Presidential Pet Museum. “It shows that they are just like me and you, with the kids and the dog.”
