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Socks: In the garden

Well here's one I didn't see in the morning Democrat-Gazette:

The ashes of Socks, the "First Cat" of both the Arkansas Governor's Mansion during the Clinton years and then the White House, were scattered at the Mansion in March. A brief ceremony included First Lady Ginger Beebe's reading of a poem she wrote for the occasion.

Posted by Max Brantley on July 3, 2009 06:02 AM | Permalink

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So where's the poem?

I need to read the real thing because the prurient mind imagines too much in its place.

Posted by: Carrick Patterson | July 3, 2009 06:29 AM

That just seems like a waste of a perfectly good dead cat.

Posted by: bugeyedlittlefreak | July 3, 2009 09:05 AM

Sorry, bugeyed, I'm sure your comment was meant to be funny......but it wasn't.

Posted by: Charles Eddie Smith | July 3, 2009 09:44 AM

I'm not a "cat person," but any time anyone loses a pet, I am sorry to hear about it. The Clintons were owned by Socks for a long time. I'm sorry he isn't with us any more.

Posted by: tina | July 3, 2009 10:15 AM

Hasn't this cat been dead for a while?

Posted by: bugeyedlittlefreak | July 3, 2009 10:57 AM

That is sweet and I wish we had a copy of the poem...

BTW, I can't tell from the picture, but was Socks a Kitler by any chance?
http://www.catsthatlooklikehitler.com/cgi-bin/seigmiaow.pl

Posted by: Any*Mouse | July 3, 2009 12:57 PM

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