Richard Nixon's Hair
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The (Really Small) Specimens
Hair of Richard Nixon. Very Small Specimens. From the collection of Steve and Anne Martini, White House barber and manicurist. Collected late 1960s or early 1970s.
Historic Overview
For centuries, human hair has been important.
And for decades, so has Richard Milhous Nixon. With the passage of time comes a chance to reassess our feelings about this president.
Provenance
Affidavit to Whom it May Concern
My grandfather Steve Martini and my grandmother Anne Martini were the barber and manicurist in the White House during the Presidencies of Dwight D. Eisenhower, John F. Kennedy, Lyndon Baines Johnson and Richard Nixon.
My grandfather died in 1985 at the age of 85. My grandmother Anne Martini gave me the locks of hair that my grandfather had shorn from each of the above presidents.
I have enclosed a photograph and description from the Time Magazine Publication: "Portraits of the Presidents" by Hugh Sidey copyright 2000 on page 34 identifying my grandfather and grandmother showing my grandfather cutting Lyndon Baines Johnson's hair and my grandmother manicuring President Johnson's fingernails including an inscribed "To Steve Martini Best Wishes Lyndon B. Johnson photo to my grandfather and a photo of my grandfather with Richard Nixon.
This collection is comprised of hair locks of each of the above 4 Presidents...and is certified to be genuine.
