Unlike President Coolidge, President Lincoln received a live turkey for the family’s Christmas dinner (Thanksgiving wasn’t a holiday yet–President Lincoln…
It was the custom to send gifts of food for the president’s Thanksgiving meal. President Calvin Coolidge (whose pet was Blacky…
In the picture below, you see the famous White House elevator as it was during President Truman’s time. The elevator…
The families who lived in the White House kept a wild assortment of pets, including cats, dogs, and pygmy hippos.