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Pete

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Pete was a pet dog belonging to United States president Theodore Roosevelt. He was one of many presidential pets during Roosevelt's presidency. He was reported to be a bull terrier, though other reports have said he was a Boston bull terrier or bulldog. Pete was reported to be Theodore Roosevelt's favorite of his dogs. Pete chased and bit a number people on numerous occasions during his time living at the White House. He bit policemen on a number of occasions. In a biting incident, Pete tore the trousers of Secretary of the Interior James Rudolph Garfield. In another incident, Pete was reported to have chased George B. Cortelyou, causing Corelyou to seek refuge by climbing a tree. He was also reported to have numerous times chased private citizens visiting the White House. In yet another incident, Pete tore the pants off of Jean Jules Jusserand (ambassador of France to the United States). In May 1907, Pete got into repeated fights with another dog that would wander onto the White House grounds. These fights left him with serious, even life-threatening, injuries.

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“The first Mickey Mouse was made by twelve people after hours in a garage. About twelve hundred people are working overtime now in a fifty-one-acre plant.”
— Walt Disney "Growing Pains", Journal of the Society of Motion Picture Engineers (January 1941), Vol. XXXVI, pp. 30-40, reprinted in American Cinematographer (1941), p. 106 (reproduced by the Internet Archive)
“To descend from the high principles of the Founding Fathers to the practices of the cultural industries today is to leave the realm of Enlightenment for the hurly-burly of corporate capitalism. If we turned the sociology of knowledge onto the present—as [[Pierre Bourdieu|[Pierre] Bourdieu]] himself did—we would see that we live in a world designed by Mickey Mouse, red in tooth and claw.”
— Robert Darnton "Google & the Future of Books", New York Review of Books (February 12, 2009)

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Not who you're looking for? Others named Pete: animal cartoon character, generally an antagonist of Mickey · male given name · episode of Red Dwarf · family name

Notable quotes

“The first Mickey Mouse was made by twelve people after hours in a garage. About twelve hundred people are working overtime now in a fifty-one-acre plant.”
— Walt Disney "Growing Pains", Journal of the Society of Motion Picture Engineers (January 1941), Vol. XXXVI, pp. 30-40, reprinted in American Cinematographer (1941), p. 106 (reproduced by the Internet Archive)
“To descend from the high principles of the Founding Fathers to the practices of the cultural industries today is to leave the realm of Enlightenment for the hurly-burly of corporate capitalism. If we turned the sociology of knowledge onto the present—as [[Pierre Bourdieu|[Pierre] Bourdieu]] himself did—we would see that we live in a world designed by Mickey Mouse, red in tooth and claw.”
— Robert Darnton "Google & the Future of Books", New York Review of Books (February 12, 2009)

Quotes via Wikiquote (CC BY-SA), each with its original source.

Overview

Pete was a pet dog belonging to United States president Theodore Roosevelt. He was one of many presidential pets during Roosevelt's presidency. He was reported to be a bull terrier, though other reports have said he was a Boston bull terrier or bulldog. Pete was reported to be Theodore Roosevelt's favorite of his dogs. Pete chased and bit a number people on numerous occasions during his time living at the White House. He bit policemen on a number of occasions. In a biting incident, Pete tore the trousers of Secretary of the Interior James Rudolph Garfield. In another incident, Pete was reported to have chased George B. Cortelyou, causing Corelyou to seek refuge by climbing a tree. He was also reported to have numerous times chased private citizens visiting the White House. In yet another incident, Pete tore the pants off of Jean Jules Jusserand (ambassador of France to the United States). In May 1907, Pete got into repeated fights with another dog that would wander onto the White House grounds. These fights left him with serious, even life-threatening, injuries.

From Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).