Another statue of Fala has been placed at Puerto Rico's "Paseo de los Presidentes" in San Juan.

[2]: 200 Fala was relocated into the White House on November 10, 1940, and spent most of his time there[4] until Roosevelt's death during April 1945.

He also became an honorary private of the U.S. Army by "contributing" $1 to the war effort for every day of the year and setting an example for others on the "home front".

He was with Roosevelt at the Atlantic Charter Conference, Quebec, the meeting with President Manuel Ávila Camacho of Mexico in Monterrey,[3] and appears quickly on deck during press filming of FDR’s visit to Hawaii in 1944 to confer with General Douglas MacArthur and Admiral Chester Nimitz.

On September 23, 1944, Roosevelt began his 1944 presidential campaign in Washington, D.C., speaking at a dinner with the International Teamsters Union.

(Fala did cause some minor trouble once on the cruiser USS Tuscaloosa in the West Indies by licking the feet of sailors relaxing on deck.

Welles ad-libbed the Fala joke for the president, who was so delighted that he had a final version written into the speech by his staff.

"And the laughter carried beyond the banquet hall; it reverberated in living rooms and kitchens throughout the country, where people were listening to the speech on their radios.

FDR biographer Jim Bishop wrote about the death scene: "... a snapping, snarling series of barks was heard.

Once, in 1945, when General Eisenhower came to lay a wreath on Franklin's grave, the gates of the regular driveway were opened and his automobile approached the house accompanied by the wailing of the sirens of a police escort.

Franklin would often decide suddenly to go somewhere and Fala had to watch both entrances in order to be ready to spring up and join the party on short notice.

[12]: 287–288 During November 1945 Fala was hospitalized for a week after being attacked at the family's Hyde Park estate by Elliott Roosevelt's 135-pound (61 kg) bull mastiff, Blaze.

[14] Suffering from deafness and failing health, Fala was euthanized on April 5, 1952, two days before his twelfth birthday.

A third statue is in the Franklin Delano Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum in Hyde Park, NY.