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Transcript: Profile: Unofficial presidential tailor Georges de Paris
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- January 26, 2003
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Profile: Unofficial presidential tailor Georges de Paris
Host: STEVE INSKEEP
Time: 8:00-9:00 PM
STEVE INSKEEP, host:
In between negotiating peace deals, United Nations leader Kofi Annan
stopped by a Washington shop last week to buy a hat, and the tailor
talked him into a suit. That tailor knows how to take the measurements
of powerful people. Georges de Paris is known as the tailor to president,
and this week millions of people will see his work when they watch
the State of the Union speech. NPR's Kitty Eisele visited his shop.
KITTY EISELE reporting:
Around the corner from the White House is a tiny clothing shop where
an immigrant French ...