Death Of A White House Underdog: The Cat
Mark Knoller is a White House Correspondent for CBS News, temporarily reporting from the CBS News Pet Desk at the White House.
You had to feel sorry for India the Cat as the least-known member of the First Family. She never got quite the same level of public attention or affection as the Bush Family dogs Barney and Miss Beazley.
Quietly this morning, the First Lady’s press office let it be known that India, a black American Shorthair, died yesterday in the White House at the age of 18.
The story goes that India got her name from one of the Bush’s twin daughters, Barbara. When she was nine, she named the cat for former Texas Ranger baseball player Ruben Sierra – who was called “El Indio.”
The Bush Family also took to calling the cat “Willie” or just plain “Kitty.”
One of India's favorite pastimes, according to First Lady Laura Bush, was to sun herself on a chair near the Palladian window at ...
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Quietly this morning, the First Lady’s press office let it be known that India, a black American Shorthair, died yesterday in the White House at the age of 18.
The story goes that India got her name from one of the Bush’s twin daughters, Barbara. When she was nine, she named the cat for former Texas Ranger baseball player Ruben Sierra – who was called “El Indio.”
The Bush Family also took to calling the cat “Willie” or just plain “Kitty.”
One of India's favorite pastimes, according to First Lady Laura Bush, was to sun herself on a chair near the Palladian window at ...
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