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Film, Video Presidential Pets: Pauline the Cow

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Title

  • Presidential Pets: Pauline the Cow

Summary

  • Pauline Wayne III was President William Howard Taft's celebrity cow. She grazed on the White House grounds. But en route to a guest appearance at a dairy show in Wisconsin, she went missing, setting off a comic turn of events. Library historian Margaret McAleer tells this charming tale.

Event Date

  • January 21, 2021

Online Format

  • video
  • image
  • online text

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Chicago citation style:

Presidential Pets: Pauline the Cow. 2021. Video. https://www.loc.gov/item/webcast-9652/.

APA citation style:

(2021) Presidential Pets: Pauline the Cow. [Video] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/webcast-9652/.

MLA citation style:

Presidential Pets: Pauline the Cow. 2021. Video. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/webcast-9652/>.