New White House puppy 'a Democrat'
Miss Beazley, the White House’s new cuddly puppy, is named after a character in a children’s book. But here’s the dirty scoop: The author of that book was Democrat.
“I’m not sure my father would be rolling over in his grave,” said Tim Butterworth, the son of the late author Oliver Butterworth. “But he’d probably be smiling quite a bit, because he liked irony.”
Miss Beazley is a Scottish terrier puppy the president gave first lady Laura Bush last week for her birthday. The first lady and twins Barbara and Jenna named the pup, which is due to at trhe White House just before Christmas and join current first dog, Barney.
Butterworth’s book, The Enormous Egg, was published in 1956, written in response to McCarthy era civil-rights abuses. Its main character is the dinosaur Uncle Beazley, a triceratops who survives a senator’s efforts to have him exterminated for being too out of place.
