Menu for Pat Nixon's Dinner for Jacqueline Kennedy

This type-written menu was discovered taped to the reverse of a clipping from the "Evening Star" from February 5, 1971, which described a meeting in the White House between former First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy and First Lady Pat Nixon. The menu provides an outline for the Nixons and Kennedys dinner at the White House on February 3, 1971. Menu items included a seafood appetizer, beef with artichokes and mushrooms, and souffle for dessert. The Nixons privately invited Mrs. Kennedy and her children to see the completed official White House portraits of the late President John F. Kennedy and Mrs. Kennedy by painter Aaron Shikler. It was the only time that Mrs. Kennedy returned to the White House after leaving in December 1963. This photograph is part of a collection belonging to former White House Executive Chef Henry Haller. Henry Haller served as executive chef at the White House from 1966-1987. To see an article clipping documenting this visit, see 1128408.