All the President's Dogs

"If you want a friend in Washington," Harry Truman once said, "get a dog." Indeed, from George Washington, who bred foxhounds (and who returned British general Howe's dog, a POW, under a flag of truce), to George Bush, whose spaniel Millie's book outsold his own autobiography, our harried chief executives have found friendship and solace in dogs.
history of president's dogs pictorial HERE

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Make Room For Momma

Over the years, several presidents have been forced to ponder the delicate (and sometimes unpleasant) question of whether to move the in-laws into the White House.
Ulysses Grant shared space with his father-in-law. And Harry Truman lived with his mother-in-law, who declared that she knew “dozens of men better qualified” to preside over the Oval Office.
On Friday, the transition team of President-elect Barack Obama confirmed that his 71-year-old mother-in-law, Marian Robinson, will be moving into the grand residence at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.
New York Times report HERE

Madam & Missus

On the left: the so-called DC MADAM, who hung herself when faced with prison time...
On the right: ...the severely ignorant Republican nominee for vice president of the United States...
...the latter seems to have adopted the fashion sense of the former...

...reminds us of that famous Harry Truman quote...“My choice early in life was either to be a piano-player in a whorehouse or a politician. And to tell the truth, there's hardly any difference.”