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soothsayer

(38,601 posts) Wed Mar 31, 2021, 05:41 PM Mar 2021

WH dog Major bites AR senator, a DC lawyer and a British PM -- in 1933 [View all]

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Jessy Han
@hjessy_
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Mar 31, 2021
April 29, 1933 — President Roosevelt's German Shepherd Major bites Senator Hattie Caraway of Arkansas.

Jessy Han
@hjessy_
August 30, 1933 — Major bites a Washington lawyer who reached into the White House fence to give him a pet.

In addition to Senator Caraway, Major previously bit British PM Ramsay MacDonald.

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WH dog Major bites AR senator, a DC lawyer and a British PM -- in 1933 [View all] soothsayer Mar 2021 OP

So Roosevelt's Major had trouble PatSeg Mar 2021 #1

You scared me there for a minute. I would worry about Major Arkansas Granny Mar 2021 #2

Majopr would have to see a vet right away if he bit any of those senators DBoon Mar 2021 #8

+1 MustLoveBeagles Mar 2021 #13

Can't they train these dogs to just bite ReThugs ? magicarpet Mar 2021 #3

What A Co-incidence. Both Dogs Having THe Same Name. Me. Mar 2021 #4

Hattie Caraway is interesting. greatauntoftriplets Mar 2021 #5

Arkansas used to be Democratic. When I moved there, we had a Dem governor, 2 Dem sinkingfeeling Mar 2021 #9

Yep. Before Asa we had Mike Beebe, a Democrat. Before John Goodman we had Arkansas Granny Mar 2021 #10

Arkansas was reliably Democratic until relatively recently. TomSlick Mar 2021 #12

saw a funny tweet this AM: "Gaetz has a major minor problem, Biden has a minor Major problem" 0rganism Mar 2021 #6

kind of poetic...the spirit of Major lives on... stillcool Mar 2021 #7

I've heard Fala (Roosevelt's Scottie) was a real biter too. nt Raine Mar 2021 #11