Elvis, "The King" Presley, met the 37th President Richard Milhous "Tricky Dick" Nixon in secret at the Oval Office on December 21st, 1970.

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Elvis' Handwritten Letter to Richard Nixon

To The Desk of H.R. Haldeman

Elvis has Left the Building but went to The White House

Dear Mr. Presley

Letter from Richard M. Nixon to Elvis Presley, 31 December 1970


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