Elvis Meets Nixon

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Elvis Meets Nixon is a 1997 film purporting to tell the true story of Elvis Presley meeting then-President Richard Nixon on December 21, 1970.

[edit] Plot

Nixon and Presley shake hands. Copies of this photo are requested from the National Archives more than any other image.

Elvis Presley, bored with his confined existence in Graceland, leaves his home on his own for the first time since he was 21. He winds up in California and is convinced by an antiwar activist that he is responsible for the drug culture through his influence on The Beatles. This convinces Elvis to write a letter to President Nixon asking to be made a Federal Agent at Large for the BNDD. Such a thing turns out to not exist, but Nixon, wanting desperately to win over the youth of America, which he views as hating him, decides to meet with Elvis in an attempt to improve his image with the "kids".

[edit] External links

• Elvis Meets Nixon at the Internet Movie Database
• When Nixon Met Elvis (National Archives and Record Administration)

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