FDR's Fala

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May 2013

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April 2013

2 posts

No Comment: Murray the Outlaw of Falahill →

new-square-fair-deal: Né: Big Boy Fala, a Scottish Terrier, was born on the 7th of April 1940. He would die April 5th of 1952 at the age of 11. Fala’s first owner was Margaret Suckley, a cousin of the 32nd president Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Fala was given as a Christmas present to the president in 1940….

March 2013

1 post

February 2013

3 posts

HAPPY BIRTHDAY FRANKLIN DELANO ROOSEVELT

ourfellowamericans: People love FDR for many things: his leadership during two of the toughest phases in American history, his New Deal, the hope he instilled in the American people, his fireside chats, his activist wife. What I love most is his relationship with his dog and best friend, Fala. No one has ever loved a dog more than FDR loved his - they are even buried next to each other in...

January 2013

6 posts

“I would prefer to visit the house on a winter afternoon, and have tea with the...”

– David Netto, referring to Wilderstein, home of Margaret (Daisey) Suckley, FDR’s cousin, Ghosts of the Hudson Valley - NYTimes.com

December 2012

4 posts

“It was Fala, my husband’s little dog, who never really readjusted. Once, in...”

– Eleanor Roosevelt (via necroromantic)

October 2012

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September 2012

4 posts

May 2012

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How could you overlook FDR’s Fala? →

Letter to the editor (Washington Post, May 4, 2012): “I was surprised when reading the lineup of other presidential pets in the May 1 front-page article on Bo, the first dog [‘The dog days of a reelection bid’], to see no mention of President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s beloved Scottish terrier, Fala. “Fala was of such transcendent importance that not only is he the only...

April 2012

3 posts

Fala Still In The News →

References to Fala continue to be found in the modern media. The latest is this Businessweek story about pets in presidential politics (think President Obama’s Portuguese water dog Bo and Mitt Romney’s former car-roof-riding pet Seamus). The magazine’s Julianna Goldman writes: Dogs have played a significant role in presidential culture, helping to humanize the nation’s top...

March 2012

7 posts

All of the President's Pets

Fala’s story continues to be told. “You spend as much time in the White House as FDR did, you’re going to acquire a fair number of pets – but Roosevelt didn’t have an outlandish number. He seemed to favor Scotties like Fala and Meggie, but he also had bigger dogs like Majora (German Shepherd), Tiny (Old English Sheepdog), President (Great Dane), and Blaze (Bull Mastiff)....

February 2012

19 posts