Socks peers over the podium in the White House briefing room on March 19, 1994. A White House groundskeeper was walking Socks when he stopped and lifted Socks to the podium. (Barbara Kinney/The White House)
Story Published:
Jul 3, 2009 at 10:49 AM CST
Story Updated:
Jul 3, 2009 at 10:49 AM CST
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. -- The ashes of the nation's former First Cat are scattered in a flower garden on the west side of the Arkansas governor's mansion. Socks was a one-time stray cat adopted by the family of Gov. Bill Clinton in 1991. Socks moved to the White House in 1993 after Clinton became president.
Socks later lived in Maryland with Bettie Currie, who was Clinton's White House secretary. A veterinarian euthanized Socks last Feb. 20 because he was suffering from cancer.
Currie asked that some of Socks' ashes be returned to Arkansas and spread in the garden. That was done in March. The urn in which the ashes were contained later was taken to Clinton's presidential
library.
A plaque honoring Socks is just off the porch outside the kitchen at the governor's mansion.
