Question: Which presidential pet was born first, Socks Clinton, or Buddy?

Context articles: Billy (pygmy hippo)
Wale Adebanwi
Augustine of Canterbury
Socks (cat)
Dear Socks, Dear Buddy
Buddy (dog)
Socks the Cat Rocks the Hill
Liberty (dog)
Despoina
Socks (novel)

Billy, or William Johnson Hippopotamus, (1920s – October 11, 1955) was a pygmy hippopotamus given as a pet to U.S. President Calvin Coolidge.
 Captured in Liberia, he was given to Coolidge by Harvey Samuel Firestone in 1927.
 Billy spent most of his life in the National Zoo in Washington D.C..
 In addition to his fame as an exotic presidential pet—which afforded him a trip to the 1939 New York World's Fair—Billy is also notable as the common ancestor to most pygmy hippos in American zoos.
 By the time of his death in 1955, Billy had sired 23 calves, 13 of whom survived at least a year.
Professor Wale Adebanwi, (born 1969), is a Nigerian - born first Black African Rhodes Professor at Oxford University
Augustine of Canterbury (born first third of the 6th century – died probably 26 May 604) was a Catholic Benedictine monk who became the first Archbishop of Canterbury in the year 597.
 He is considered the "Apostle to the English" and a founder of the Catholic Church in England.
Socks Clinton (Spring 1989 – February 20, 2009) was the pet cat of U.S. President Bill Clinton's family during his presidency.
 As an adopted stray cat, he was the only pet of the Clintons during the early years of the administration, and his likeness hosted the children's version of the White House website.
 After Clinton left office, Socks resided with former Clinton secretary Betty Currie and her husband, owing to continuing conflicts with Clinton's dog Buddy.
Dear Socks, Dear Buddy: Kids' Letters to the First Pets is a 1998 children's book written by First Lady of the United States Hillary Rodham Clinton.
 It concerns the two pets that lived in the White House during the Clinton administration, Socks the cat and Buddy the dog.
Buddy (August 7, 1997 – January 2, 2002), a male chocolate-colored Labrador Retriever, was one of two pets kept by the Clinton family while Bill Clinton was President of the United States.
 The Clintons' other pet was a cat named Socks.
Socks the Cat Rocks the Hill is an unreleased platform video game developed by Realtime Associates for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System.
 The game stars Socks, the real life presidential pet of the Clinton family during Bill Clinton's tenure in office.
 Originally scheduled for release in the fall of 1993, "Socks the Cat" experienced delays until it was ultimately canceled due to the closure of publisher Kaneko's U.S. branch in the summer of 1994.
 The game was complete however, and review copies were still distributed to gaming publications.
 A prototype cartridge has entered the hands of private collectors, but the ROM image has not been released to the public.
 A Kickstarter campaign to fund a relaunch of the game was successfully funded and anticipates a 2017 release.
Honor's Foxfire Liberty Hume (AKC Registration Number SB578950) was the Golden Retriever Presidential pet of Betty Ford and Gerald Ford.
 Liberty was born February 8, 1974 and given to the president as an 8-month-old puppy by his daughter Susan Ford and new White House photographer David Hume Kennerly in the fall of 1974.
 The breeder of the dark gold pup was Ann (Avis) Friberg of Mount Vernon, Washington.
In Greek mythology, Despoina, Despoena or Despoine, was the daughter of Demeter and Poseidon and sister of Arion.
 She was the goddess of mysteries of Arcadian cults worshipped under the title "Despoina", "the mistress" alongside her mother Demeter, one of the goddesses of the Eleusinian mysteries.
 Her real name could not be revealed to anyone except those initiated to her mysteries.
 Pausanias spoke of Demeter as having two daughters; Kore being born first, then later Despoina.
 With Zeus being the father of Kore, and Poseidon as the father of Despoina.
 Pausanias made it clear that Kore is Persephone, though he wouldn't reveal Despoina's proper name.
Socks is a children's novel written by Beverly Cleary, originally illustrated by Beatrice Darwin, and published in 1973.
 It won the William Allen White Children's Book Award.
 The title character of the book would eventually become the name for Socks Clinton, the cat of U.S. President Bill Clinton and family.