# Socks Clinton **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [March 31, 2006, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/socks-clinton/350718 "2006-03-31T16:58:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2008, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/socks-clinton/350718/21 "2008-12-17T01:13:43Z")
I knew I should have had Socks in my Celebrity Deathpool this year. ---
**Author:** ![greatshakes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/58956e/32.png) [@greatshakes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/greatshakes)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2008, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/socks-clinton/350718/22 "2008-12-17T01:53:22Z")
I think that he committed suicide in a Washington park. (Can’t find smillies. It doesn’t matter. I think that the Vince Foster thing is too rich a thing to mine to let go of, either seriously or facetiously.) ---
**Author:** ![Una\_Persson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/una_persson/32/346_2.png) [@Una\_Persson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Una_Persson)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2008, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/socks-clinton/350718/23 "2008-12-17T01:58:46Z")
> [@Squink](#): > > **Update:** > > [President Clinton’s cat Socks losing cancer battle](http://www.nydailynews.com/lifestyle/2008/12/15/2008-12-15_president_clintons_cat_socks_losing_canc.html) It’s so RO almost, and yet it makes me sad. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2008, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/socks-clinton/350718/24 "2008-12-17T02:02:31Z")
Poor Socks! Hope he pulls through. I always liked this photo of him: [http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2138/1674168122\_74a53cfa08.jpg?v=0](http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2138/1674168122_74a53cfa08.jpg?v=0) ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2008, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/socks-clinton/350718/25 "2008-12-17T02:14:09Z")
That’s a shame. Still, 19 - that’s a very good run for a cat. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2008, 3:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/socks-clinton/350718/26 "2008-12-17T03:56:48Z")
> [@Guinastasia](#): > > India looks JUST like my Piper Grace. And Piper Grace also likes to hide from us. And he looks just like my Paris (brother of Vienna). ---
**Author:** ![R.P.McMurphy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/7993a0/32.png) [@R.P.McMurphy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/R.P.McMurphy)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2008, 4:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/socks-clinton/350718/27 "2008-12-17T04:29:27Z")
From the NY Times archives. A tribute to Buddy with mention of Socks. [http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9B00EFD91130F937A35752C0A9649C8B63&scp=2&sq=buddy&st=cse](http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9B00EFD91130F937A35752C0A9649C8B63&scp=2&sq=buddy&st=cse) ---
**Author:** ![williambaskerville](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f14d63/32.png) [@williambaskerville](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/williambaskerville)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2008, 5:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/socks-clinton/350718/28 "2008-12-17T05:56:30Z")
Coincidentally, Socks has been showing up in Steve Bell’s cartoons in the British newspaper, the Guardian. > **[Steve Bell's If ... The president of the Niceday](https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/cartoon/2008/nov/12/obama-white-house-george-bush)** > > Steve Bell's If ... ---
**Author:** ![HeyHomie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/heyhomie/32/207_2.png) [@HeyHomie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HeyHomie)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2008, 1:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/socks-clinton/350718/29 "2008-12-17T13:12:21Z")
> [@DuhCow](#): > > i’d like to know why this cat gets no publicity whatsoever. no one mentions india, Yeah, I don’t get this either. ISTR at one time Socks even having his own web page, but I never heard of this India character until this thread. I’ve heard plenty about the Bush’s dogs, however. ---
**Author:** ![Paul\_in\_Qatar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ccd318/32.png) [@Paul\_in\_Qatar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paul_in_Qatar)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2008, 1:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/socks-clinton/350718/30 "2008-12-17T13:25:05Z")
How odd. Today’s New York Times reports the cat is alive in Hollywood, Maryland. [http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/17/us/politics/17currie.html?\_r=1&scp=3&sq=Betty%20Currie&st=cse](http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/17/us/politics/17currie.html?_r=1&scp=3&sq=Betty%20Currie&st=cse) ---
**Author:** ![Cisco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ccd318/32.png) [@Cisco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cisco)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2008, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/socks-clinton/350718/31 "2008-12-17T21:38:46Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Poor Socks! Hope he pulls through. I always liked this photo of him: [http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2138/1674168122\_74a53cfa08.jpg?v=0](http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2138/1674168122_74a53cfa08.jpg?v=0) Heh, that is a good picture. Never seen that before. Hoping a 19 year old cat with terminal cancer “pulls through”, though, I think is a little optimistic. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/socks-clinton/350718.md?page=1)