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An affable artist who mostly resisted commercial offers, Mr. Booth was once asked to draw his trademark bull terrier as a gift for an anonymous celebrity. Instead, he recalled, he defiantly drew a “diseased chicken.” Later, he learned the gift was for President Ronald Reagan, who was “very gracious” when the two met in the Oval Office, he told The New York Times in 1993. “He never had me shot.”
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