White House Pets
Sheep
Grazing on the Whitehouse lawn

There were sheep that grazed on the White House lawn during Wilson's administration.

To cut groundskeeping costs during World War I, President Woodrow Wilson (1913-21) brought a flock of sheep to trim the White House grounds. Included in the flock was Old Ike, a tobacco-chewing ram.

Pictured next to the West Wing is a mound of wool from President Woodrow Wilson's sheep.


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