Buddy (Bill Clinton's dog)
Template:Short description Template:Redirect Template:About Template:Use American English Template:Use mdy dates Template:Infobox animal 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 adopted Buddy as a three-month-old puppy from Caroline County, Maryland, in December 1997. He named him after his great-uncle, Henry Oren "Buddy" Grisham, who had died the previous June and whom Clinton often cited as a major influence on his life.<ref name="lat">Template:Cite news</ref><ref name="wapo">Template:Cite news</ref> Socks did not get along with Buddy, who was frisky, 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 a 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.<ref name="cnn">Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Showerpets.com Template:Webarchive</ref>
In June 2002, Clinton acquired another chocolate Labrador whom he named "Seamus".<ref name="seamus">Template:Cite news</ref>
Cultural references
First Lady Hillary Clinton wrote a children's book called Dear Socks, Dear Buddy: Kids' Letters to the First Pets in 1998.<ref>Clinton, Hillary, Dear Socks, Dear Buddy: Kids' Letters to the First Pets, Simon & Schuster, 1998, Template:ISBN</ref> 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,<ref> Template:Cite web</ref> relating the writer's fictional friendship with Bill Clinton, which began when both men discovered their common interest in dogs.
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