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

[soothsayer]

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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.

[PatSeg]

1. So Roosevelt's Major had trouble

adapting to the White House in the beginning as well. Maybe Major Biden knows his White House dog history and is trying to live up to his predecessor and namesake's reputation.

[Arkansas Granny]

2. You scared me there for a minute. I would worry about Major

if he had bitten either of our current Senators, especially Rotten Cotton.

[DBoon]

8. Majopr would have to see a vet right away if he bit any of those senators

Who knows what diseases they might carry

[MustLoveBeagles]

13. +1

[magicarpet]

3. Can't they train these dogs to just bite ReThugs ?

[Me.]

4. What A Co-incidence. Both Dogs Having THe Same Name.

[greatauntoftriplets]

5. Hattie Caraway is interesting.

She inherited her husband's Senate seat at his death, but went on to win the seat on her own. And, she was a Democrat.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hattie_Wyatt_Caraway

[sinkingfeeling]

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

Senators and a split on House members. And that was only 30 years ago.

[Arkansas Granny]

10. Yep. Before Asa we had Mike Beebe, a Democrat. Before John Goodman we had

Blanche Lincoln, a Democrat. Before Tom Cotton we had Mark Pryor, a Democrat.

[TomSlick]

12. Arkansas was reliably Democratic until relatively recently.

The GQP was making stead gains in Arkansas for some time but it only became impossible for a Democrat to win other than a very few local elections during the Obama administration.

Reckon what happened during the Obama administration to make Bubba Joe become such a dependable GQP voter?

[0rganism]

6. saw a funny tweet this AM: "Gaetz has a major minor problem, Biden has a minor Major problem"

in one of the linked threads re. Rep. Gaetz and his issues

[stillcool]

7. kind of poetic...the spirit of Major lives on...

[Raine]

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