** FILE ** In this March 19, 1994 file photo, Socks the cat peers over the podium in the White House briefing room in Washington. Two famous figures in the Bill Clinton White House, his personal secretary and ailing pet cat, Socks _ are back in the public eye. Clinton secretary Betty Currie is working for John D. Podesta, co-chairman of President-elect Barack Obama’s transition, at the same time reports surfaced that her adopted pet Socks, now 19, has cancer. (AP Photo/Marcy Nighswander, File)