Named after the teenage pharaoh, Herbert Hoover’s pet dog faced his own struggles at the center of a very modern empire
Republican presidential candidate Herbert Hoover speaks to a crowd in New York in 1928. The collapse of financial markets in the fall of 1929 would plunge the country into the Great Depression. Please be respectful of copyright. Unauthorized use is prohibited.During King Tut’s brief reign at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue he stuck to his police-dog roots, often accompanying White House policemen on their nightly rounds.
“It’s same sort of stress that any presidential family member is going to feel from being in the in the spotlight at the White House,” Hager notes. Tut’s death didn’t make the newspapers until more than six months later. While some speculate that Hoover felt it would be inappropriate to mourn the death of his dog as Americans saw their savings vanish, Howard suggests a more practical reason: “[The Hoovers] just didn’t want people to send them more dogs.”
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