The First (and Second) Dog

Sometimes I think that Laura Bush maintains the facade of a good political wife while being a bit subversive.

(From Miss Beazley, Outrunning The Newshounds )

Miss Beazley has a bipartisan pedigree. Her father, Ch. Motherwell Alberta
Clipper, was born Election Day 2000, and his call name is Clinton. (His
siblings, Bush and Gore, did not survive.) Clinton is also Barney's half
brother, making Barney an uncle, of sorts. The first lady and her daughters named Beazley for a character in a children's book, "The Enormous Egg," a fable written by Oliver Butterworth in 1956 in response to McCarthy-era abuses. Uncle Beazley, the book's triceratops protagonist, outgrew his little town and came to Washington, where he fought a senator trying to have him exterminated for being out of place.

Coincidence that she names her dog after the hero of a book about fighting government 'overzealousness' ?