In Photos: As Biden Family Bids Adieu to 'Champ', a Look at US Presidential Pets Through the Years
Photos of presidential pets throughout the years.
U.S. First Lady Jill Biden pets one of the family dogs, Champ, after his arrival from Delaware at the White House in Washington. Champ died on Saturday. Adam Schultz/White House/Handout via REUTERS.
Major, one of the family dogs of the Bide family, explores the South Lawn after on his arrival from Delaware at the White House in Washington. Adam Schultz/White House/Handout via REUTERS.
U.S. President Joe Biden's dogs Champ and Major are seen on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, DC. Mandel Ngan/Pool via REUTERS
U.S. President Barack Obama presents the first family's new Portuguese Water Dog puppy, Bo, on the South Lawn at the White House in Washington April 14, 2009. REUTERS/Larry Downing
President-elect Bill Clinton (R) shakes hands with President George Bush as he and his wife Hillary (2nd from R) arrive at the White House, January 20, 1993. The Bushes dog, Millie is seen in the photo. Credit: REUTERS
President Clinton tries to get his dog Buddy to give back the ball as they play a game of fetch on the White House South Lawn March 2, 1998. REUTERS/Win McNamee
U.S. President Barack Obama's dogs Sunny (L) and Bo arrive to board Air Force One for travel to Massachusetts for the family's annual vacation at Martha's Vineyard, from Joint Base Andrews, Maryland, US on August 6, 2016. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst.
Spot, pet dog of U.S. President George W. Bush, steps off Marine One as a Marine salutes on the South Lawn of the White House, June 24, 2003. REUTERS/Larry Downing.
Spot, the dog of US President George W. Bush and first lady, Laura,sleeps on the brand-new rug inside the Oval Office of the White House while the president and first lady show members of the press the new rug, December 20, 2001. REUTERS/Larry Downing
Socks the cat walks behind his master President Clinton, White House press secretary Mike McCurry and deputy Chief of Staff Sylvia Matthews (R), as they cross the White House lawn March 6, 1997. REUTERS/Stephen Jaffe
U.S. President George W. Bush carries his pet dogs Barney (front) and Miss Beazley off Air Force One at Andrews Air Force base near Washington August 13, 2006. REUTERS/Jason Reed
The president's son John F. Kennedy, Jr. (center) feeds his dog Shannon on the walkway outside the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, October 24, 1963. Cecil Stoughton/White House Photographs via REUTERS
U.S. first lady Barbara Bush pets her dog Millie while waiting with her granddaughter Barbara for President George H.W. Bush to arrive on White House steps in this undated photo in Washington, DC, U.S. REUTERS/Rick Wilking
Pasha, Vicki and King Timahoe, the dogs belonging to President Richard Nixon's family, look out an open window at the White House in Washington, DC, December 1, 1970. Robert Knudsen/Nixon Library/Handout via REUTERS
President Gerald Ford and his dog Liberty sit in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, D.C., November 7, 1974. David Hume Kennerly/White House Photograph Via REUTERS
President Lyndon B. Johnson sings with his dog Yuki as Ambassador David Bruce looks on in the Oval Office of the White House, Washington, D.C. February 6, 1968. Yoichi Okamoto/LBJ Library/Handout via REUTERS
