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OCR Page 1 of 11MEMORANDUM
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
March 4, 1971
Memorandum for: Mr. Butterfield
From: Rex Scouten Re Scontin
Subject: Request to Renovate Residence Kitchen.
There is a pressing need to completely renovate the
Residence Kitchen because:
1. The main electric range and the baking ovens were
originally installed in 1936.
2. All of the other kitchen equipment except for one range,
2 broilers and a gas grill are at least 20 years old.
3. We have inadequate ventilation and cannot make any
improvement without a major renovation.
4. We do not have the recommended fire prevention-
suppressing facilities and cannot improve without a
major renovation.
5. The present arrangement of equipment was designed
to serve around 4,000 guests a year, now we serve
over 40,000 a year. At the time of the renovation
and until 1961, we had a few major social functions a
year; certainly not over two a month and then we
normally had several days with no other activity
in order to prepare for that one function.
Briefly, the present kitchen was not designed to meet
present day entertaining requirements and the great bulk of the
existing equipment is obsolete.