Hey and welcome to the short stuff, I'm Josh and those show canoes Jerry and Elvis's the building in Spirit, at least in those Richard Nixon, never Bay, Mare about that so or this is sort of like. I said that right- and this is about the very famous meeting of Elvis Presley and Richard Nixon and we got this information from December two thousand and articles Sony magazine by Peter Karlsson, which had some great details about this very famous meeting on December twenty first nineteen, seventy! Yes, what is it you might if I was a Photoshop What you do you remember that one of the first Photoshop to ever got from our PAL Van Nostrand was of us is Elvis and Nixon. That's right, and then

we totally unrelated to our other pal who photoshop so sometimes his errand Cooper. Actually, he does it all the time and he Photoshop. This is Elvis and Dixon too, and I think they were swat pretty amazing stuff what the wonders of technology. The thing is. The right thing is this is not a photoshopped images, a very famous image that you could get well before Photoshop. Was around back in the eighties, but is of a meeting that very few people knew about until the Chicago Newspeak. Nineteen eighty eight said: hey everybody. The national archives has the bunch of pictures of listen, Nixon together shaking and you can buy em if you want and it became the most requested picture national archives history in like a week, yet, unlike Elvis, as Elvis it wasn't like he's, he wore his like my own worms. Today and his tone it down like rice, is fully Elvis per purple were lower suit with a cape. If I remember,

Yes- and there is a movie about this too, by the way he there's two of them really there's one from ninety seven and one from I think, like two thousand somethin, while the ones I saw was the most recent one with Michael Shannon. Yes, as as Elvis yes, so not It was a great but Michael Shannon's awesome and everything that was worth it for that did they make like is it thinks, feature length movie weird, but if all the story you know, because I mean this is about like forty. Eight hours is the whole story. Yes, oh how goes is it's Christmas time away? I'm sorry hold on one more thing chuck. I want energetic before you get started. It helps a lot too. Imagine Elvis Toto. He wasted on speed throughout this entire story UK. Furthermore, so it's On Christmas, there's a fight at the house between was his dad Vernon Analysis, wife, apparently about just Christmas spending, which I think is interesting. I think I got them

in that they were on the same side against Elvis, I want to know so much. But it did any regard Elvis leaves he's he's not Happy so he does that that move, He drove thing where you just go to the airport, They put me on the next white to anywhere and then happened to be. Washington DC goes to DC, whose authority is there for a little while and then decides to find a way to in Beverly Hills which, by the way is an Airbus, be now is it it is, but it's not it's it's on air be, but you all, the dates were blacked out, didn't give a price, because I was like I'm totally in a dream, stay there one measure at some point in my life, but yeah, nor did it was, but you can go. Look at the house is pretty sweet, as you would imagine, so I was his body and confidant an assistant jerry, showing gets a call. Like I'm gonna, be an old man. Pick me up asked Craig Jerry, shilling he'd heeds stick em up

and here's where we should just say that Elvis at this point in his life was obsessed with martial arts guns and weirdly law enforcement and collecting law enforcement honorary sheriffs. An honorary badges decorating, and they bound all of these common. These interests together was drugs being on lots and lots of drugs. Yet in it says this in her book he was obsessed with the narcotics badge, the Narc badge, and she said he felt then, if you had that Narc badge, then you could fly to any country with your guns and your drugs and get away with it. No questions asked wow, so that is the debt is the fantasy of a drug, Harold brain problem. The answer I also, but it solves tickle problem to I love my guns in I love my drugs and I to get em around. So I got it I'll bet

a federal narcotics bureau, badges, the predecessor of the dossier, obey I could just flash one of those add that I'm Elvis Presley, and that I got this from Richard Nixon and whom right, through with all my big garbage bag full of tales so in a way he says to his is Jerry going he's like now, I want to go back to DC. He didn't tell em why on the way on the flight. Elvis writes a letter to President Nixon if I can be of any service, do I want to help the country out and I would love to me- you stays in Dc under a pseudonym entails Nixon. His pseudonym cities either in DC, and I want the credentials of the federal age it. Yes, so you he writes this letter, hey they take the red eye from related DC. They drop a letter off its six thirty, a m new hotel. Personally Elvis drop this off at the gate of the White House yet and they too

can do hotel and Elvis gets restless he's not slip by the way I'm on it and yeah. He decides he's gonna, go to the Bureau of Narcotics himself into a kind of sniff around and see what they go on there. So, while so, while I'm guessing Jerry Shilling was getting some rest in a shower at the hotel, room Elvis is off at the Federal Narcotics Bureau hasn't slept. Simply out of his mind on drugs. Talking to them about bad then stuff how we'd like to meet Richard Nixon and get a badge from him. What's a may hazing, although it's really not amazing, if you stop and think about it, is that when they dropped the letter of its six thirty within five I've been a half hours of this was on is way to the White House to deal with the president. Take eliciting a break. There will tell you about the further details of the story right after this,

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this delivered a letter and it's not just like if any normal. My American had delivered a letter like this and actually gotten Nixon's aid pretty quickly He was a fan of Elvis and he's like you know what this is a great idea like Richard Nixon. Is it not cool at all? No, and if he met with Elvis Presley like that's really get for his image, has Elvis? Is the coolest guy on the planet, dish well nineteenth he was. He was up there. Okay, so he likes this idea. He persuades eventually the chief of staff, Bob Haldeman to make this happen and at noon that day Elvis shows up at the White House, ready to go with the gift of a gun. He brought a cult. Forty five in a display case, to give the Nixon which he just took from the wall of his house in our way sure he's a quick and agree a puzzle. This ordeal

this is a beautifully mounted firearm. If you're into that kind of thing, you would be like yes, especially if it came directly from Elvis, is personal collect, shot out again guy, but I would love Elvis's forty five sure, so the secret service of course says. Yes, thank you Much will take that before you can go into the oval office and from wait. What do we say? Bug crows isn't Crow Crawford. We settle on. Mr scowcroft have a bug Kay yeah, so bug k recounted his impresses historic disease in the room he made. This thing happened: Disease and Elvis Vain and an aide de Nixon, and he said their. When Elvis, into their oval office. He. It was plain that he was all structure, but he regained his footing pretty quickly and is, like you know, mixing it up with the president having a talk with him up a very serious talk

out the problem of counter culture in the United States for a very interesting. The whole thing was so I'd think is Elvis's was a drug addict and he talked about the problems of drugs, and he from what I understand had a clearly distinct line. Between being riddled with prescription drugs and an illegal like street drugs right right, has naively if it's a prescription, drugs and it comes from a doctor's legitimize like this fine, it's legal, you know, even if you have a totally illegal amount of them on you. It still Eagle is still a prescription drugs, but a street I've heard before- and I remember I read it- may have been the uncle John Bath reader that he's to get so worked up about the idea drug dealers in Memphis down the street, that his he'd want to go out and shoot him in his his and he be wasted

drugs at the time and his entourage would have to like com. Down and keep him keep the guns away from keep him just in his house to keep him from go now in exacting vigilante justices of the local Memphis Street drug dealers around town. Yeah? I mean, I think I said this in the grassland episode. You know my family for Memphis and might my dear sweet grandmother passed away like fully believing in saying out I like what you know. Elvis's doctors killed him he didn't you didn't know what was going on. They had I'm go in every which way but lose because of his their prescriptions. My grandma. I'm gonna tell her no honour deathbed. Now he s like Elvis, was a junkie now blows over him with doing so. I too Elvis, strike this guy, like you bud kase. As taking notes, because this is pre oval office taping by Nixon Elvis's awestruck they're talking about the counterculture Elvis tongue, but the Beatles Hell, they're anti amiss.

Kids in their bad for America and they're talking, Our drugs analysis shown off his collection of badges and then basically saying that he basically some flat out. I would like a narcotics badge: can you make that happen? Harry was cudgel chose my pretty much in a recent as well on or no can we bud k and bud. K was like We can probably make that happen. He's like Marine must get it done. That so that was it I mean within, but probably about an hour. Kay and Elvis went to lunch and a bug k produce the badge forum, well I'd before the end, a lunch or right after lunch ended so funny. He also got Summah other, like at his bodyguard in shilling with them and Nixon Nixon gave, summer? Would you give em cuff are than elsewhere like almost Mr President. They too, you know, So you ve got a White House, broaches Elvis Presley,

leaves a white house. Although these gifts, basically gray, made a basket out of his shirt, but like we said there was that one very famous photo and no one knew about this Elvis wanted to keep it quiet. Imagine Nixon was it sadly, was unable to use. It is like a is a pr move, yeah, They also here's pie like what just happened, Elvis came and went into reality. The available. We are headed in oil, crazy, the whole thing's pretty crazy chuck. For sure. Both the year after a columnist seemed Jack, Anderson broke the story, and presently it nobody really. Go anywhere, knowing if it didn't become part of the cultural memory. And it wasn't until one thousand nine hundred and eighty eight, that the Chicago newspaper reported about the the photos that that was when it hit just right,

I think a nineteen seventy one people were like it, didn't it there, it wasn't kitty yet, but a night Eighty eight people were ready to be blown away by the idea of Nixon in and Elvis together, a trade and so it was in the national archives. Then, all of a sudden, you could make a request for the copy of that photo and within one week eight thousand people requested that, and it still much Europe still as but for a while, it was the most requested photograph in the history of the national harcars. Pretty amazing Mary, yeah. I was finally supplanted by Obama meeting with that alien re oval office. That famous verdict that's right! No one Obama met with the lead singer of corn agar. You got anything else. Nope.

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