Photos: Presidential pets through the years

The Presidential dogs Sunny, left, and Bo, are walked by a handler on the South Lawn of the White House on Saturday, May 17, 2014. The Portuguese water dogs are the Obama family pets. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

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In this Feb. 29, 2008 file photo, President George W. Bush and his dog Barney step from Air Force One after arriving in Waco, Texas. (AP Photo/Duane A. Laverty, File)

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** FILE ** In this Dec. 25, 1994 file photo, Socks, the Clinton family cat, perches atop a reindeer statue on the White House lawn behind the Oval Office in Washington. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee, File)

In this Dec. 25, 1994 file photo, Socks, the Clinton family cat, perches atop a reindeer statue on the White House lawn behind the Oval Office in Washington. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee, File)

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**FILE** This March 13, 1998 file photo shows President Clinton, center, and first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton with first puppy Buddy as they leave the White House for a presidential retreat at Camp David, Md. (AP Photo/J.Scott Applewhite, FILE)

This March 13, 1998 file photo shows President Clinton, center, and first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton with first puppy Buddy as they leave the White House for a presidential retreat at Camp David, Md. (AP Photo/J.Scott Applewhite, FILE)

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** FILE ** In this Aug. 24, 1992 file photo, President and first lady Barbara Bush walk with Millie across the South Lawn as they return to the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Scott Applewhite, File)

In this Aug. 24, 1992 file photo, President and first lady Barbara Bush walk with Millie across the South Lawn as they return to the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Scott Applewhite, File)

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**FILE** This December 1986 file photo shows first lady Nancy Reagan holding the Reagans' pet Rex, a King Charles spaniel, as she and President Reagan walk on the White House South lawn. (AP Photo/Dennis Cook, FILE)

This December 1986 file photo shows first lady Nancy Reagan holding the Reagans’ pet Rex, a King Charles spaniel, as she and President Reagan walk on the White House South lawn. (AP Photo/Dennis Cook, FILE)

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President Ronald Reagan, along with his son Michael’s family and the president’s dog Lucky, gather around a snowman on the White House grounds, Jan. 19, 1985. From left are, Michael’s son Cameron, the president, Michael, and his wife Colleen holding her daughter Ashley. (AP Photo/Ira Schwarz)

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President Jimmy Carter and Rosalynn Carter play with their dog “Grits” on the south lawn of the White House in Washington D.C. after returning from church on Sunday, August 6,1978. Earlier that day a group of people were arrested for planning to disrupt the church service in protest over the neutron bomb. (AP Photo)

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President Carter’s daughter Amy Carter holds her cat Misty as she returns to the White House in Washington, D.C., Monday, Sept. 5, 1977. (AP Photo)

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Gerald Ford, the President of the United States with his daughter, Susan, and their pet dog on the White House lawn in Washington on 1974. (AP Photo)

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President Richard Nixon showed off Tim, his new six-month-old Irish Setter. The dog, a gift to the president from his staff, made his formal debut in the White House Rose Garden in Washington, on Jan. 28, 1969. At right background is Sen. Everett Dirksen, GOP Senate leader from Illinois, and Rep. Gerald Ford, hands in pocket, House Republican leader from Michigan. The Nixons has two other dogs Vickie, a poodle, and Pasha, a Yorkshire terrior. (AP Photo)

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Shown in photo are dogs Pasha and Vicky pets of U.S. President Richard M. Nixon on Feb. 3, 1969. (AP Photo)

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FILE– Richard Nixon is seen with his dog “Checkers,” at his home in Spring Valley neighborhood of Washington, DC., in this July 2, 1959 file photo. Not even a president should be separated from his faithful dog, especially if the canine helped save his political career. (AP Photo/ FILE)

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This study of President Lyndon Johnson was made as the Chief Executive stood at his White House desk, Oct. 6, 1965 in Washington with his white collie, Blanco. Johnson is scheduled to undergo a gall bladder operation on Friday at the Bethesda Naval Hospital. (AP Photo)

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President Lyndon Johnson poses with Freckles, mother of five Beagle pups at the White House in Washington, Nov. 4, 1966. The president, just before leaving the Executive Mansion for his Texas ranch, showed off the pups, Freckles and Edgar, a gift from FBI director J. Edgar Hoover. The father of the pups is reported to be Jones Brookline Buddy, owned by Jean Austin DuPont of Wilmington, Delaware. (AP Photo/John Rous)

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‘Yuki’, President Lyndon Johnson?s pet mongrel, is held out the window of the car driven by LBJ as the first family starts a ride around the Texas ranch in Stonewall, Texas, Sept. 30, 1967. Johnson, driver for the outing, is holding Yuki. In the car are Lady Bird Johnson, Pat and Luci Nugent, Lynda Bird and Marine Capt. Charles Robb. (AP Photo)

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Caroline Kennedy’s pet pony Macaroni accepts a handout from Towner Keener through the fence surrounding the White House grounds in Washington, D.C., March 16, 1962. The pony grazes the lawn of the executive mansion, seen in background. (AP Photo)

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Pushinka, a gift to Presdient John F. Kennedy from Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev, stands her ground on the White House lawn, Aug. 14, 1963, while the rest of the family's dogs vacation with the first family at Cape Cod. Pushinka was the offspring of Soviet space dog Stelka. (AP Photo/William J. Smith)

Pushinka, a gift to Presidnt John F. Kennedy from Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev, stands her ground on the White House lawn, Aug. 14, 1963, while the rest of the family’s dogs vacation with the first family at Cape Cod. Pushinka was the offspring of Soviet space dog Stelka. (AP Photo/William J. Smith)

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Charlie, Caroline Kennedy’s pet Welsh terrier, inspects a turkey presented to President Kennedy after a traditional Thanksgiving week ceremony at the White House in Washington, Nov. 19, 1963. President Kennedy “pardoned” the bird, sending it back to the farm. Charlie had the run of the grounds during the ceremony. (AP Photo)

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Oblivious to its palatial and imposing surroundings, feller, a five-weeks-old cocker spaniel gift to President Truman, sits disconsolately outside its shipping case in a large corridor of the White House in Washington on Dec. 22, 1947. The ball at its feet gets no play as the pup waits for a playful fiend. (AP Photo/Bill Smith)

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President Franklin D. Roosevelt lifts his dog Fala as he prepares to motor from his special train to the Yacht Potomac at New London, Conn., Aug. 3, 1941. The president began a vacation voyage scheduled for a week or 10 days. (AP Photo)

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U.S. President Herbert Hoover, right, is shown with first lady Lou Henry Hoover and their dogs in Washington, D.C., on June 15, 1932, in the final year of his presidential term. (AP Photo)

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U.S. President Calvin Coolidge and first lady Grace Coolidge are shown with their dog at the White House portico in Washington, D.C., on Nov. 5, 1924. (AP Photo)

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