Lyndon Baines Johnson was sad. His Beagles, “Him” and “Her” (see their photograph on the cover of LIFE magazine) were dead. Hoping to cheer him up, FBI head, J. Edgar Hoover gifted the president a new Beagle whose registered name was Greeson’s Chum.
When a family friend learned that J. Edgar (the dog) had some field talent, he borrowed the dog to enter the Chambersburg Beagle Club trial in September, 1966. The friend, an expert Beagler, put himself down as the handler, and listed “L. B. Johnson” as the owner thinking it would be unfair to the judges if they knew they were assessing the president’s dog.
J. Edgar was awarded second place to became the first, and as far as we know, only White House dog to have a place in the AKC record books. is
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