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Article: Who walks Bo? While Michelle Obama is away.(Front)
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- The Virginian-Pilot (Norfolk, VA)
- Article date:
- November 3, 2009
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By Darlene Superville
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON
Dale Haney is the keeper of the White House grounds. In nearly 40 years of keeping the grass green and the flowers blooming, he's also managed to cultivate something just as important: relationships with the presidents' pooches.
Haney is often spotted walking Bo, the Obama family's Portuguese water dog. In fact, he's tended to every White House pup since King Timahoe, Richard Nixon's Irish setter.
Haney, 57, has been a White House fixture since 1972. After getting a degree in horticulture from Sandhills Community College in Pinehurst, N.C., he continued his training in ...