Thursday, August 16, 2007

"How is Elvis? And Have you Seen Him Lately?"

First up, name the movie the above line comes from.

So today we mark the 30th anniversary of the "passing" of Elvis Presley. One could go on for hours on whether he is really dead, but I'm not going down that road.

I will however, focus on one event that offers some MAC (that's mandatory archival content for you newcomers).

When Elvis Met Nixon.

On December 21, 1970, Richard Nixon met with the "King" in the Oval Office. Presley had written to the President asking to be named a "deputy" on the federal war on drugs. (Now stop laughing, he was probably just trying to get better junk.)

After the meeting and a sit-down lunch with Secret Service agents, Elvis received his badge from the Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs.

The question is, would these then be considered dangerous? And these just seem wrong.

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