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THE culinary choices facing US President Richard Nixon that October night in Kilfrush House, Co Limerick, were not confined to whether he wished to have his Waterville potatoes boiled or baked.

He and his wife, Patricia, were the guests for two days and nights of his wealthy Irish-American friends, Mr and Ms John A Mulcahy, ahead of a State visit in Dublin. The menu for the dinner party guests, who included taoiseach Jack Lynch and his wife Maureen, and the future US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, featured the best of Irish food and beverage.

William Rogers, the then US Secretary of State, his country’s Ambassador to Ireland John D Moore and General James Hughes, military aide to Nixon, were also among the guests.