spent her later years in New York City. A neighbor of Zanders worked as a maid to Lawrence's attorney; it was through this connection that she first hired him. Lawrence's connection to Zanders was also mentioned in a 1959 New York Times profile of the limousine owner written by Gay Talese. According to Talese, anyone who could pay Zanders 150 dollars a day in 1959 was eligible for an entire day of his services. Zanders served as chauffeur to Fidel Castro during his April 15–26, 1959 visit to the United States. Castro insisted upon staying in a Harlem hotel and blamed the neighborhood's poverty on American capitalism. Roosevelt Zanders drove Richard Nixon around the New York area before and after his presidency. (In the 1960s, Nixon lived in a Fifth Avenue co-op apartment.) Zanders had a large host of famous clients that included Margot Fonteyn Dorothy Kilgallen, Ethel Merman, Winston Churchill, Eleanor Roosevelt, Harry S. Truman, John F. Kennedy, William Holden, Red Skelton, Clark Gable, Lana Turner, Danny Kaye, Eddie Fisher, Nat King Cole, and Aristotle Onassis. Concierge to the stars Besides limousine services, Zanders provided a variety of personal services to his clients. He made hotel and restaurant reservations, arranged for babysitters, picked up dry cleaning, completed banking and obtained theater tickets for his clients. Other services he performed ranged from sending 100 pounds of shrimp to John Wayne while he was in Paris to a $200,000 cash delivery for Aristotle Onassis, to sending two tiger cubs to the President of Panama. He once produced a pair of elephants to appear at a political rally for an anonymous client. Later years Zanders retired and sold his business in 1985. According to Zanders' widow and daughter, he penned an autobiography a few years before suffering a debilitating stroke in 1993. They claimed the manuscript, which contained anecdotes from driving Nixon and other clients, was stolen from their Harlem home before any publisher could read it. Zanders also was survived by a brother, Ralph, who worked in the Zanders company. When Zanders died in 1995, his New York Newsday obituary was bylined Gay Talese. References 1912 births 1995 deaths Chauffeurs People from Valdosta, Georgia Businesspeople from Youngstown, Ohio 20th-century American businesspeople