Merle Haggard | Richard Nixon | White House | Merle reads Pat Nixon birthday poem | band plays "America the Beautiful"!

 

Merle Haggard | Richard Nixon | White House | Merle reads Pat Nixon birthday poem | band plays "America the Beautiful"!

March 17, 1973: A special evening with country music legend Merle Haggard in the East Room of the White House on St. Patrick's Day, 1973. Includes performances and a reading of a poem Haggard wrote for First Lady Pat Nixon on the occasion of her birthday.

The program was filmed and produced by the Naval Photographic Center. The Naval Photographic Center White House Motion Film Unit Collection consists of motion film coverage of selected official activities of President Nixon filmed between 1969 and 1974.