The National Archives today released 122,800
pages of mostly routine correspondence from the
Nixon presidency, none of it apparently
earth-shaking but some of it mildly interesting.
One of the more extraordinary letters was from
Nixon aide Egil Krough Jr., thanking a friend
for helping secure a Bureau of Narcotics and
Dangerous Drugs badge for Elvis Presley
following Presley's 1970 Oval Office meeting
with the president. �We meet many fascinating
creatures in this business," Krough wrote, "but
I think that meeting between the president and
Elvis Presley was one of the most interesting."
Elvis pledged his support to the president in
the war on drugs, and had the president look in
his desk for presents for his bodyguards� and
their wives� But Elvis was not the only
celebrity to visit Nixon. .Frank Sinatra became
a Nixon buddy, but early in Nixon�s presidency,
his staff debated whether it was appropriate to
have Sinatra sing at the White House. "I am sure
that many of our friends in the entertainment
field would think it wrong to have a former
anti-Nixon person entertain at the White House,"
presidential aide Dwight Chapin wrote in a 1970
memo. But Sinatra did perform, and he was soon
signing his hand-written notes to the president,
"Affectionately, Francis," while Nixon, ever the
stiff, signed a photo of the two, "Richard
Nixon."
Source: MSNBC
Posted: 29th. November 2007