Macaroni (Kennedy family pony)

Camelot had a pony, and the public adored him. Caroline Kennedy's Macaroni was usually stabled in Virginia but often brought to the White House, where he roamed the grounds freely and, in snow, sometimes pulled a sleigh. He appeared with Caroline on the cover of Life and received thousands of fan letters of his own. He is often described as a gift from Lyndon Johnson, but the JFK Library says how he came to the Kennedy family is not known. The photograph here, taken at the West Wing Colonnade on June 22, 1962, with the president, Caroline and John Jr., shows why the image-conscious Kennedy White House let him be seen.