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.

SOME visits everybody remembers. John F Kennedy in 1963, Pope John Paul II in 1979. However, sandwiched in between those was the visit few remember, that of the 37th President of the United States of American, Richard Milhous Nixon.