On today's special episode of Dogs-patch — er, Dispatch: a brief history
of presidential pets at 1600 Pennsylvania, featuring the Kennedy's dog
Pushinka (who might have helped avert nuclear war), Teddy Roosevelt's
badger (really more questions than answers here) and Nixon's dog
Checkers (who sadly passed before he could rescue his owner from
Watergate). Andrew Hager, the historian-in-residence at the Presidential
Pet Museum, provides biting commentary on the furry residents of the
White House.