Richard Nixon meets Elvis Presley

Nixon admires Elvis’s cuff links while presidential aide Egil Krogh looks on. On the table are gifts from Elvis to Nixon, including photographs and a Colt 45 pistol.

For more information on Elvis Presley’s visit to Richard Nixon go to The Nixon-Presley Meeting, and click here to read and listen to Nixon’s resignation speech. See also the wonderful mixedup.com which lists songs about Nixon and Elvis including There’s a guy works down the chip shop swears he’s Elvis (Kirsty McCall), though unfortunately not the James Brown classic You can have Watergate, just gimme some bucks and I’ll be straight.