Bill Clinton

Buddy the chocolate-colored Labrador Retriever and Socks the adopted stray cat were the Clintons’ two pets during Bill Clinton’s presidency. They didn’t really get along, so they were kept separate in the White House. Clinton once said, “I did better with … the Palestinians and the Israelis than I have done with Socks and Buddy.” As first lady, Hillary Clinton wrote a children’s book called “Dear Socks, Dear Buddy: Kids’ Letters to the First Pets.”