All Creatures Great and Small: Presidential Gifts to the National Zoological Park
List of animals donated to the National Zoological Park in Washington, D.C. by Presidents of the United States. Twelve presidents from Grover Cleveland to Richard Nixon are on the list. Between January 1902 and November 1909, Theodore Roosevelt made twenty-seven donations of thirty-eight individual animals and birds, including thirteen opossums, to the zoo.
Collection
Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal
Creation Date
1980