Gift exchange: Irish Ambassador to the United States William Fay pins a shamrock on RN’s lapel, while RN presents to Fay a Waterford Crystal Vase with an etching of the White House.
On St. Patrick’s Day 1969, in a ceremony with Irish Ambassador to the United States William Fay, RN took a look back at his Irish heritage:
“I should point out that in our family, Mrs. Nixon’s father was Irish, and on my side my mother was Irish,” he said in a ceremony in the Roosevelt Room with William P. Fay, then-Ireland’s Ambassador to the U.S.
Year after year, St. Patrick’s Day gives American and Irish leaders a chance to hail the longstanding friendship between their two countries and peoples.