Socks (cat)

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Betty Currie and Socks
Socks in the garden

The Kater Socks (* late 1990 / early 1991 ; † February 20, 2009 ) was the house cat of the family of former US President Bill Clinton and was known internationally as the "First Cat".

Life

Socks was found as a young animal by Chelsea Clinton in Little Rock / Arkansas in early 1991 and was taken in by the Clinton family as a pet. Because of its white paws with otherwise almost completely black fur of the cat "was Socks " ( Engl. Socks , stockings ) called.

After Bill Clinton was elected US President in 1992, he and the Clinton family moved to the White House in Washington, DC in early 1993. There he was the only pet in the White House until 1995 and was known as the "First Cat". Occasional press reports made him known beyond the USA and had a large fan base.

Since Bill Clinton's tenure ended in 2001, Socks has been in the care of Betty Currie , Bill Clinton's retired secretary in Hollywood, Maryland . In December 2008, his health deteriorated due to cancer , so he on 20 February 2009. euthanized was.

Trivia

The American fashion designer Judith Leiber designed a Socks evening handbag for Hillary Clinton in 1996. A copy of this model is on display in the Hendrikje Cup Museum in Amsterdam .

See also

literature

  • Michael O'Donoghue, Jean-Claude Suares: Socks Goes to Washington: The Diary of America's First Cat ; 1993, ISBN 1-56566-042-0 (German: Kater Socks goes to Washington. The Diary of America's First Cat . Munich 1993 ISBN 3-426-73019-7 )
  • Hillary Rodham Clinton: Dear Socks, Dear Buddy: Kids' Letters to the First Pets ; 1998, ISBN 0-684-85778-2

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Are the Clintons socks failing? January 10, 2001 in the mirror
  2. ↑ Clinton's Socks the Cat Near Death December 12, 2008 on USnews
  3. ^ Message of death at sueddeutsche.de ( memento of the original from February 24, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. and on clintonfoundation.org  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.sueddeutsche.de@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.clintonfoundation.org  

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