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In which President Ford gets a dog:

“Our family didn’t have a dog when we moved into the White House. Susan [the Fords’ daughter] and David [David Kennerly, the White House photographer] thought that situation should be rectified before Betty came home from the hospital.
Without telling me his intention, David did some research and discovered that a fine retriever had recently given birth to a litter in Minneapolis. David called the kennel’s owner and said he wanted to buy a puppy for a friend of his.
That was fine, the owner said, but what was the name of David’s friend?
David said it was a surprise; he wanted to keep the name secret.
‘We don’t sell dogs that way,’ the owner replied. ‘We have to know if the dog is going to a good home. ‘
‘The couple is friendly,’ David said. ‘They’re middle-aged, and they live in a white house with a big yard and a fence around it. It’s a lovely place.’
‘Do they own or rent?’ the owner asked.
David thought for a minutes ‘I guess you might call it public housing,’ he said.”
-Gerald R. Ford, 1979, in his memoir “A Time To Heal”

The Ford’s acquired Liberty, a Golden Retriever, as a puppy in the fall of 1974. She grew up in the White House and gave birth to her first litter of puppies there.
-from the Ford Library

In which President Ford gets a dog:

“Our family didn’t have a dog when we moved into the White House. Susan [the Fords’ daughter] and David [David Kennerly, the White House photographer] thought that situation should be rectified before Betty came home from the hospital.

Without telling me his intention, David did some research and discovered that a fine retriever had recently given birth to a litter in Minneapolis. David called the kennel’s owner and said he wanted to buy a puppy for a friend of his.

That was fine, the owner said, but what was the name of David’s friend?

David said it was a surprise; he wanted to keep the name secret.

‘We don’t sell dogs that way,’ the owner replied. ‘We have to know if the dog is going to a good home. ‘

‘The couple is friendly,’ David said. ‘They’re middle-aged, and they live in a white house with a big yard and a fence around it. It’s a lovely place.’

‘Do they own or rent?’ the owner asked.

David thought for a minutes ‘I guess you might call it public housing,’ he said.”

-Gerald R. Ford, 1979, in his memoir “A Time To Heal”

The Ford’s acquired Liberty, a Golden Retriever, as a puppy in the fall of 1974. She grew up in the White House and gave birth to her first litter of puppies there.

-from the Ford Library