Drop in to the Richard Nixon Library and Birthplace and check out the exhibit of the day he met Elvis (whose 72nd birthday was on Monday!).

Some excerpts from the AP story on CTV.ca:

The meeting between two of the most improbable cultural icons of the 1970s lasted all of 30 minutes, but it has fascinated Americans for years.

A photo of a cloaked and bejewelled Elvis Presley solemnly shaking hands with a grim-faced President Richard Nixon remains the No. 1 requested document from the National Archives, nearly four decades after the secret meeting took place on Dec. 21, 1970. ..

The chain of events that led to the meeting began when a stretch limousine carrying Elvis pulled up outside the White House. One of his guards handed over a letter from Elvis addressed to Nixon requesting a meeting to discuss how the rock star could help Nixon fight drugs -- including getting credentials as a "federal agent at large.''

"I will be here as long as it takes to get the credentials of a Federal Agent,'' Elvis wrote. "I have done an in-depth study of drug abuse and Communist brainwashing techniques and I am right in the middle of the whole thing where I can and will do the most good.''

And what was the sad irony of the above sentence?

Anyway, here's a 2004 post about Elvis's death day, and a post about his 70th birthday.