Nany Evans oral history.indd - Washington Secretary of State
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governor was supposed to arrive at 7 p.m. from SeaTac, if I remember correctly, so about 6<br />
p.m. I took over the two turkeys and put them in the pen along with a sign ‘ Happy Birthday<br />
from Lenny and Augie.’ When the governor arrived, he was dead tired. But Nancy and<br />
Mrs. Bell appeared as Playboy bunnies. We had one hell <strong>of</strong> a party, then I announced that<br />
Speaker Len Sawyer and Majority Leader Mardesich had arrived to bring greetings. We all<br />
went out in the backyard to see Lenny and Augie. Everyone cracked up. The next morning<br />
about 5 a.m. my phone rang at home. It was the governor saying, ‘Get those damn turkeys<br />
out <strong>of</strong> my yard!’ They are gobbling like hell out there.’ ”<br />
Hughes: With that menagerie at the Governor’s Mansion, the footage <strong>of</strong> Michelle and<br />
Barack Obama and their girls with that new puppy must have put a smile on your face.<br />
<strong>Evans</strong>: We had a puppy except it was never little.<br />
Hughes: That’s Peggy the Irish Wolfhound?<br />
<strong>Evans</strong>: That’s Peggy, and she was marvelous; she was a great dog.<br />
Hughes: The pictures <strong>of</strong> that dog are pretty amazing. How did you come by Peggy?<br />
<strong>Evans</strong>: We had a friend who was head <strong>of</strong> Pacific Northwest Bell here in Seattle. They had<br />
just bought a puppy, their second Irish Wolfhound. And then he was sent to New York to<br />
the headquarters to be vice-president <strong>of</strong> AT&T.<br />
So he called one day and said, “Would you like a<br />
puppy?” And I thought, “Oh, that is a lot to take<br />
on with everything else we’ve got.”<br />
Hughes: This is early in the going – 1965 or so.<br />
<strong>Evans</strong>: Yes. They lived in Woodway, up in North<br />
Seattle. And we went up to their house and<br />
there was this puppy. Well, I say “puppy,” but it<br />
was never small. They had an end table by one<br />
<strong>of</strong> the s<strong>of</strong>as and she used to always go under it<br />
until suddenly she couldn’t go under it, so she<br />
would carry the table with her! (laughing) They<br />
showed me a yard stick where they measured<br />
66<br />
Nancy, Dan, and the boys with Peggy, their Irish wolf hound, at<br />
the Governor's Mansion in the early 1970s. <strong>Evans</strong> family album