Bo disclosed as a $1,600 gift in White House financial forms (The Newsroom)

<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/yahoonewsroom/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ynews/20100517/ts_ynews/ynews_ts2101"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/rids/20100422/i/r1192396091.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=vLqX0XnjA8k89xVSHZvsJw--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="Obama family dog Bo waits in the Cross Hall before arriving with U.S. first lady Michelle Obama for an event to welcome children of White House employees to the annual Capture Our Daughters and Sons to Employment Day at the in the East Room of the White House in Washington, April 22, 2010. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst (UNITED STATES - Tags: POLITICS ANIMALS)" border="0" /></a>The Newsroom - Bo is the Sixteen Hundred Dollar Dog, according to Barack Obama's newly released financial disclosure form for 2009. In the White House's reckoning, that's the market value of the dog the Obama family received as a gift from the late Sen. Ted Kennedy and his wife. However naturally, there are many more intangible measures of Bo's worth &mdash; shortly after joining the First Family at the end April, he served as a welcome distraction from the two wars and tanking economy Obama faced upon taking office. And that's all to affirm nothing of what he's meant to Obama's daughters, Sasha and Malia.</p><br clear="all"/> More information: click here