Bo's a considerable negligible guy. Well suited for fixed occasions at the White House, he's got tuxedo-black fur, with a fair-skinned chest, waxen paws and a spruce white goatee. Clearly, the accord of the dog was information too big to contain.
A uncanny Web site called FirstDogCharlie.com published a puppy depict Saturday morning, superior with a Q and A with the dog, which it said was to begin with named Charlie. The distinction prattle Web site TMZ.com linked to the picture.
So much for the big White House unveiling. The operation was another distinct punishment for Obama's tight-knit team, which had distinguished success at controlling news and leaking tidbits to unconventional news outlets during the campaign. But once Obama took office, that proved more difficult.
With more wide-ranging sources of gen available, despatch leaked to the media of foremost nominations, as well as the stretch problems that sank ci-devant senator 's c to become the White House healthiness czar. So it went with Bo's story. In mid-March, report on the drive was that the White House was successful to plant a vegetable garden. A victuals reporter was making calls, probing, pushing. But the White House was mum.
Word filtered out that the restricted had been promised to The. But the White House offered a mollifier: The puppy unique is yours. The newspaper that cracked Watergate was favourable to have the puppy story.
These kinds of arrangements get made all the tempo in Washington but very occasionally are discussed publicly. The puppy deal seemed to be holding up. Sure, reporters here and there nipped at the story.
There were hints that the puppy was a gift. There were reports that the Kennedys were complicated -- but the senator's hurry relatives pretended no knowledge. But then came Saturday morning. The FirstDogCharlie put included a transparency of a Portuguese branch water dog that looked word for word take to the dog in a White House photo -- privilege down to the multicolored lei -- that The Washington Post was getting shape to broadcast on the disguise servant of its Sunday paper. (FirstDogCharlie was registered anonymously on Friday on the Web plot GoDaddy.com.) Still, there's lots of makings that didn't fissure out, including a confidential matter get-acquainted hearing with the group at the White House a few weeks ago.
The visit, known around the White House as "The Meeting," was a take for the girls. Bo wore a lei then, too. Bo magical the pre-eminent family, a root who was there said.
He sat when the girls sat, stood when the girls stood. He made no toileting errors and did not eat away on the furniture. Bo has, after all, been receiving lessons in extraordinary behavior from the Kennedys' dog trainers.
These lessons have been engaging station at a secret, undisclosed site front Washington. - Bo, though he was raised elsewhere, already has a distinct brains of who's in enjoin at bottom the Beltway. When the president walked across the scope during the visit, Bo followed obediently. "He's sooooo cute," the authority said, referring, let us be clear, to the puppy. "It's very exciting. They had a great meeting.
" Sasha was excited; Malia focused on all the "responsibility issues" -- how will Bo be trained, cared for, etc. "Malia has done expansive research," the outset said.
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