Here’s Mrs. Calvin Coolidge at the White House Easter Egg Roll in 1927, seventeen months before the Great Depression began. The raccoon in the S&M collar is her pet raccoon, “Rebecca.” According to the Library of Congress, “The president built a little house for Rebecca.”
Who says Judy Giuliani doesn’t have what it takes to be a batshit crazy first lady?
Presidential Pets [White House]
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