Elvis Meets Nixon

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Elvis Meets Nixon
Elvis Meets Nixon movie poster
Directed by	Allan Arkush
Produced by	Alan Rosen; Robert O'Connor (executive producer); Vicky Herman, Peter Pastorelli (line producers)
Written by	Alan Rosen
Starring	Rick Peters Bob Gunton Alyson Court Denny Doherty Jackie Burroughs Curtis Armstrong Gabriel Hogan Robbi Jay Thuet
Cinematography	Michael Storey
Editing by	Neil Mandelberg
Country	United States
Language	English
IMDb profile

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.

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Nixon and Presley actually meet on December 21, 1970 as shown by these photos. However the meeting was kept secret until Jan. 27, 1972, when the Washington Post broke the story.^[1]

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] References

[edit] External links

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

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