Nixon Dogs in the Library at Christmastime
This photograph, taken by Joseph J. Scherschel on December 19, 1969, shows Traphes Bryant in the White House Library with Pasha, a Yorkshire Terrier belonging to Tricia Nixon, Vicki, a French Poodle owned by Julie Nixon Eisenhower, and King Timahoe, President Richard M. Nixon's Irish Setter. Bryant was an electrician with the General Services Administration from 1948 to 1972 and served as the unofficial presidential dog keeper for several first families beginning with President John F. Kennedy and First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy in 1961.