Buddy (dog)
Bill Clinton with Buddy
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| Species | Canis lupus familiaris |
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| Breed | Labrador Retriever |
| Sex | Male |
| Born | August 7, 1997 Maryland, U.S. |
| Died | Script error: The function "death_date_and_age" does not exist. New York, U.S. |
| Nation from | United States |
| Occupation | Pet |
| Years active | 1997-2002 |
| Known for | Being the pet of the First Family of the United States |
| Predecessor | Millie |
| Successor | Barney |
| Owner | Bill Clinton |
| Appearance | Brown fur |
Buddy (August 7, 1997 – January 2, 2002), a male chocolate-colored Labrador Retriever, was one of two pets kept by the Clinton family while Bill Clinton was President of the United States. The Clintons' other pet was a cat named Socks.
Life
Clinton acquired Buddy as a three-month-old puppy from Caroline County, Maryland in December 1997. He named him after his late great-uncle, Henry Oren "Buddy" Grisham, who had died the previous June and whom Clinton often cited as a major influence on his life.[1][2] Socks did not get along with the frisky Buddy, so the White House had to keep the two in separate quarters. Since this arrangement would be no longer possible in the Clintons' smaller home in New York, Socks was left under the care of Bill Clinton's secretary, Betty Currie.
Death
According to the police report, Buddy was killed by a car while "playfully chasing a contractor" who had left the Clinton home in Chappaqua, New York, on January 2, 2002. The Clintons were not home at the time of the accident; their home was being watched by Secret Service agents. The agents rushed Buddy to an animal hospital where he was pronounced dead.[3][4]
In 2005, Clinton acquired another chocolate Lab whom he named Seamus.[5]
Cultural references
First Lady Hillary Clinton wrote a children's book called Dear Socks, Dear Buddy: Kids' Letters to the First Pets in 1998.[6] It included excerpts from more than 50 letters written to the First Pets by children and more than 80 photographs of Socks and Buddy.
Buddy was a central character in Rick Cleveland's 2005 one-man show My Buddy Bill,[7] relating the writer's fictional friendship with Bill Clinton, which began when both men discovered their common interest in dogs.
See also
References
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- ↑ Showerpets.com Archived August 17, 2014 at the Wayback Machine
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- ↑ Clinton, Hillary, Dear Socks, Dear Buddy: Kids' Letters to the First Pets, Simon & Schuster, 1998, ISBN 0-684-85778-2, ISBN 978-0-684-85778-7
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External links
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| Preceded by | US White House pet dog December 1997 – January 20, 2001 |
Succeeded by Barney (George W. Bush's Scottish Terrier) |
