Nah. Even a dude like justin Bieber could pull up at the white house lookin like trailer trash who works at a gas station . I bet he'd campaign for Joe Biden if he wasn't Canadian lmao
and you forgot high out of his mind, his drug of choice was codeine although he took a lot of other stuff like uppers and downers, the FBI warned Nixon about him after the visit and advised him to break off communication with Elvis.
It's actually a really wholesome, cute movie. Shannon didn't have to look like Elvis, he embodied his more child-like self but never made fun of him or demeaned him. He was brilliant in it to be honest.
@@Blessedone333AZ Elvis and Nixon if anything is a softly conservative film focusing on friendship, respect, breaking down barriers and attaining your dreams through hard-work, not hand outs. It also takes multiple swipes at (and I don't want to get political, I'm just saying it like the movie presents it) far-left ideology and focuses on the fact that both Elvis and Nixon, for all of their faults were self-made men who worked hard to get where they were. When Spacey gives the 'Look where I came from and look where you came from. Left wingers look at our success and want to tear it down because we took the hard road' speech, I was sitting there open mouthed pondering, "am I agreeing with Richard Nixon?" lol. It also presents Nixon as a devoted, loving father and beneath his gruff exterior a softy at heart, however south his career went later. It was nice to see him for once not outright demonized. If anything, I'm shocked Shannon wanted to do the movie.
Elvis had been up for days if not a week at this point. He was pale and puffy, and it's hard to believe the same man had been a picture of health in the Summer recording That's The Way It Is and its Vegas concert documentary. The concert grind and the pills that made it possible had already got to him and he was never the same again in body, mind, voice and spirit. Hair stayed on point, though.
It’s a miracle he lasted as long as he did with all those uppers and downers he popped plus his high fat southern diet on top of his crazy hectic work schedule. Sad ending for a talented man
Its amazing how he survived. Between the insane stress, work schedule, and heat (this was before widespread AC and when stage lights were basically just massive heat lamps) it's amazing he even survived with or without the drugs. That Kony 2012 guy had a mental breakdown with a shorter but similar schedule and he was sober
I remember this day and it was not strange... it was betrayal. The King was southern blue collar rock along the lines of Cash and Allman Brothers. Hs screwed up manager sold Elvis to Hollywood, the Military, Vegas. It was a split between clean cut right wing music that the Beach Boys represented and counter culture rock and roll music the Doors, Hendrix, the Beatles and Stones represented. Elvis was viewed by youth of my age at the time as a "sell out". Pot was not legal and not illegal at the time but Nixon made it illegal to go after the Anti-War Protesters who were smoking it up as the only thing he had to arrest them. Elvis was his man to build up the generation who decades later were to be Trump's loyal slowly aging baby boomer minions. The King is the Father of Country Music propaganda, he would have been a QAnon supporter if QAnon were around back then.
Elvis was something ! You have to admit he had balls of steel, wakes up one day decides he wants a badge from the President of the United States gets on a plane by himself flies to Washington arranges an appt. with The POTUS ...AND GETS THE BADGE!! Incredible. Love him.
Make that Presley and Nixon: Werewolf Hunters. Could also try shoehorning Elvis into a James Bond role with Nixon/Q sending him on missions against werewolfs.
"Look, Elvis. These damn hippies are shooting up werewolf blood. We need to hunt em down or they're gonna attack San Francisco. Henry's getting us the silver bullets, so pick a pistol." And then Nixon and Elvis go rhinestone trenchcoat Boondock Saints mode shooting werewolf hippies in San Francisco.
@@LedosKell wheres the Colonel in all this ??. He takes 70% of Elvis money and works Elvis like a slave to pay HIS old ass's gambling debts. The Colonel got to be the Vampire that drains there bank accou..... I mean blood ( aren't they same thing almost 🤔) and sucks the life out of Tricky Dick and The King
@@octavius8562 Do your research before posting. Elvis started touring in January 1970, with first stop at the Houston Astrodome. Over several days, 200,000 people saw him. He then went on to be the hottest ticket in the country in the 70's. He outdid everyone. I researched this years ago. The info was impeccably kept, down to how many were at each venue. He sold out every one, and if Parker had too small of a venue, he had to go back and do another concert. Almost 1700 in the 70's. Also Vegas twice a night. This video is filled with lies. I met Bud Krogh in Memphis and know the whole story. It, (the video...several really)with Jerry Schilling, whom I also met, tells all that went on that day and why. Nothing like this uploader says. 99% lies.You and this uploader obviously know very little about the life of Elvis. I wish people like you, who don't, would not post unless you have really done your homework. I, too was around in those 70's. I know what went on.
@@octavius8562To you again.... Remember one thing. Elvis NEVER lost any of his popularity at any time in his life, and in his death. During the 60's he made movies of which none lost money. He was the first to make a million per movie. Shelley Fabares, who made 3 movies with him, recalls sitting in the huge 750 seat eating place of the stars. who worked at MGM Studios. She had been talking about his presence and how strong it was on a PBS show. She said people in that huge room had seen every celeb there was and couldn't care less. She sensed something behind her. The room went quiet. She turned and saw Elvis at the door looking in, and at the same time everyone in the room getting up rushing to the door. He had disappeared. She said here he was with the Beatles ruling the charts, at his lowest, and all these people were going to rush him. She said with that kind of thing, he would never live a long life. She said she would love him forever. He went on to do the 68 Special which was the most watched show all year on TV. Did the '73 Aloha in Hawaii, seen via satellite by over a billion people. Was the hottest ticket in America in the 70's with nearly 1700 sold out concerts. Starting in 1997 until covid, Elvis in Concert, with him on the big screen and his live band and singers have traveled the world to sold out concerts. It starts up again this year. The man has never stopped. All the while, but for some covid years, 600,000 visit Graceland every year.
@@octavius8562 lol.... in one of the Elvis/nixon movies when Nixon says that meeting Elvis would make him popular with the young people, the aid chokes out "but sir, he plays--- [soto] Vegas". 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣. Eh. Elvis always had his fans...
Undercover Elvis. Now, that's a cool band name! Ironically, The Beatles admired Elvis. He was their true Rock And Roll hero. During their Cavern Club days they dressed like Elvis and sported Elvis inspired hair styles.
In the Beatles Anthology one of them recounted actually meeting Elvis and going to a house he was staying in, in Los Angeles (not Graceland) where Elvis basically just hung out watching TV with them, then showed off that he could play bass. 🤷♂️
They were a bit broken hearted about it years later when this story finally became public. And their bitchiness about him? They really wanted to BE Elvis and they were very competitive guys.
LED ZEPPELIN and ELVIS were the number one performing artists in the world then, I think Zeppelin were outselling him so Elvis wanted to meet them and did. They were both in the same city at the same time and Elvis invited them to his show, Zeppelin arrived late but then attended an after show party and met him and hit off. Robert Plant tells the story about this meeting about how cool Elvis was and how he used to sing an Elvis song as their sound check before a gig. When Elvis left several hours later he turned just before he (left the building ) and called out to Robert and started singing that song to him and the band ss he left. Robert Plant was blown away by this.
Elvis was against street drugs even weed. Yes elvis did pills but his mentality was “if a doctor prescribes it then it’s not bad” which is not the case
@@Bigbadwhitecracker WOW! It's hilarious to see the utter lack of knowledge about Elvis. Were you there starting in 1969? If so, please tell me YOUR opinion. If not, I was there each year and will tell YOU. Elvis lit up, not just the venue, but the whole city. We once got in to his show by asking a pit boss at Caesar's Palace, who put us in the invited only line. From the moment you got in the cab, that's all the drivers talked about until we would get to wherever we were staying that year. We stayed at the Sands once and in our rooms on the intercom, was Elvis. That's where the Rat Pack played. I saw most all shows on the strip through those years and there was nothing that ever topped him and his beauty, talent and charisma. Elvis did slow down after '74, but still put on good shows. No other entertainer has ever LIT UP a city like Elvis lit up Vegas, and was the start of other big names playing there to this day. 45 years after his passing, 600,000 people still go to Graceland, to the new 450 room plush hotel and the 200,000 sq ft Elvis Presley's Memphis complex across from Graceland housing one million artifacts, from cars, awards, gold/platinum records, costumes, wedding clothes, to jewelry, to WHY HE WENT TO THE WHITE HOUSE! THAT BADGE HE WANTED. He collected badges and THAT was the ONLY reason he was there. Made no difference what prez it was. When he wanted something he went for it. He was friends with Carter and remained non political until he died. He LIKED the Beatles. The Beatles said without Elvis, there would be no Beatles. You are watching the wrong video about this trip..
This would seem crazier, except for the fact that there was an Oval Office meeting between Trump and Kanye West. That makes the Nixon/Elvis meeting seem a lot more normal.
Elvis went to the White House to get a badge. He collected them. It made NO difference WHO was in office when he decided he wanted THAT badge. It is on display across from Graceland in the 200,000 sq ft Elvis Presley's Memphis complex with a million other artifacts. There's pictures of Elvis with Carter also. He was non political.
Elvis only went for the Badge and that was it. Seeing he collected badges. He never turned anyone in for anything. He said whatever he thought it would take to get the Badge.
@@addictedtothewrittenword3451 "Elvis was the 'Big Bang' of rock 'n roll" - Chuck Berry. "'If you ask anyone, I'm talking about people from all kinds of music - Blues, Soul, Country, Gospel, whatever - and if they are honest with you and have been around long enough to know---they'll thank Elvis for his contributions. He opened many doors and by all his actions, not just his words, he showed his love for all people'." - B.B King. 'If anyone says Elvis Presley was a racist', charged B.B. King in the 2010 interview. 'Then they don't know a thing about Elvis Presley or music history". Elvis didn't appoint himself the name either. It was a female journalist in 1956 who did that.
@@Shaunny.Longlegs whatever lies you need to keep telling yourself to make cultural opreation seem OK by all means keep telling I find it very entertaining.
Elvis was so cool. He did what he wanted, but he was always a gentleman and polite. He's charm the ladies and authority figures, to the point that they didn't know what was happening. He was The King and a Great American Hero
Number forty-seven said to number three "You're the cutest jailbird I ever did see" "I sure would be delighted with your company" "Come on and do the Jailhouse Rock with me" Let's rock Everybody, let's rock Everybody in the whole cell block Was dancin' to the Jailhouse Rock
Elvis being my idol, this story never ceases to amaze me in how crazy it really is lol, I truly believe the main reason he did this was like Pricilla said so he can carry his guns and bring his drugs anywhere he wanted, and used an excuse like the youth and American culture as an excuse. He did also have a fascination with law enforcement and had a collection of badges.
And who would believe anything she says about Elvis???? She has told so many lies about him to make him look bad & she was Miss Innocent, what a joke she is!!!
@@brettcooper3893 ua-cam.com/video/vU4jrHbgBHA/v-deo.html Thanks for the tip! I looked it up after seeing your post. What a crazy story, and hilariously delivered by Alice Cooper. Liza Minnelli was in the mix, too. I put a link at the top for anyone who wants to see Cooper tell his story.
Can we get a weird history on New Orleans? From Voodoo Legends to Red Light district French quarter to the catholic chuch only allowing men and nuns in the city leading to a prison release of all women
Man, gotta cut deep to people who grew up during the time of Elvis listening to him and seeing him live, then find out he wants to sell you out to the man. Nixon wants to connect to the youth, but Elvis wants to push back against those pesky youths, who, he essentially created. The whole story is nuts 😂😂
No it's not nuts if you don't know anything about Elvis. If you did, it makes perfect sense. Elvis wanted ONE thing out of this trip, that was pretty spontaneous....A BADGE! He collected BADGES!. They are promanitely displayed at the 200,000 sq ft complex across from Graceland, called Elvis Presley's Memphis, housing one million of his artifacts. There's another secret archive building that houses another one million artifacts which are rotated out. He did not want it to "travel the world". He wanted the biggest BADGE of them all....FOR HIS COLLECTION. Yes, he carried it around frequently. It really is that simple. He said what he thought he needed to say to get what he wanted. Made NO difference WHO was in the White House that day. He was friends with Carter. He was not political...ever. all for a badge. And that stupid movie that people actually believe astounds me.
@@FuckPedophileBiden Who told you that? You are in the wrong video, or just live your life believing untrue rumors and not factual evidence with the people who were there.
@@keetonplace Priscilla Presley was married to Elvis, and knows more about him than you ever will. From the book she wrote Elvis and Me. "The narc badge represented some kind of ultimate power to him," "With the federal narcotics badge, he believed he could legally enter any country both wearing guns and carrying any drugs he wished." 1
@@feliz1443 I know right, there was the link for it under the video. It was £17+ shipping and it was literally just a black case that had "wierd history" at the top 😄
I love 'Elvis' weirdness too. Look at celebrities today. I saw Eminem in concert a few years ago and he stopped the damn show to lecture everyone in the audience about some 'higher power'/rehab 'don't-do-drugs' bullshit. The quintessential 'post rehab' speech you get from dudes at a bar who don't drink but still hang around to preach at you. Elvis getting buck wild as an undercover Fed at large, firing guns at the TV and fitting his crew with TCB rings is where it's at. Love me some Elvis.
This is legendary 😂 Presley wanted another deputy badge for his collection, so he just rolls up at the White House to get it from the president 😂 and it actually works.
Fascinating rundown of one of our weirdest episodes. Unfortunate that several of the frames are people who are either dressed like Elvis Presley, or bear some resemblance to him--but are not him. Kind of makes the video seem like it was made by bots.
"Elvis Meets Nixon" 1997 and "Elvis & Nixon" 2016 Both worth watching for different reasons. While you're in there -- "Elvis Found Alive" 2012, by Joel Gilbert is fun
I think that Elvis wanted to meet Nixon and get a Federal Badge for his police badge collection. Elvis really respected police officers and if he hadn’t been a world famous performer he would’ve been a cop. The movie Elvis and Nixon is a trip, Michael Shannon as Elvis and Kevin Spacey as Nixon.
I genuinely thought this was a song by the menzingers when it played on random without me looking at the playlist or curating the overall content, that was crazy. But I'm digging it either way
Elvis wanted the badge because he collected them, and nothing was higher than a federal badge. Pricilla's comment was silly, and most likely because the whole trip occurred after an argument the two had.
Ironic that EP wanted to help on the war on drugs while being stoked to the gills. And, news flash, the Beatles had been broken up for months at the time of the meeting.
@@stevenblackwood6097 It sounds like you are both correct, because “Me 2“ sounds to be talking about when the official business paperwork was all finalized for the break up, and you are referring to when Paul announced he was leaving the band.
@@stevenblackwood6097 P.S. By chance have you done a web search yet for “white house memo written by Bud Krogh of Elvis Presley meeting President Richard Nixon?” You’ll find that according to the memo, Elvis was talking about the Beatles in past tense, not current-day tense, so in my opinion, that seems to indicate that Elvis knew they were no longer actively together. *From the memo:* “Presley indicated that he thought the Beatles _HAD_ been a real force for anti-American spirit. He said that the Beatles came to this country, made their money, and then returned to England where they promoted an anti-American theme. The president nodded in agreement and expressed some surprise.” Perhaps I am misunderstanding your OP, but it sounded as if you thought that Elvis was acting as if the Beatles were still active during the time of his meeting with President Nixon in December 1970. P.P.S. I just did another web search for “what does ‘being stoked to the gills’ mean? Urban dictionary” because I had never heard of that phrase before, and nothing came up. Was any part of that phrase a typo in your OP, or if not, can you explain where this saying came from? I understand that you are using the phrase in a way to say that Elvis was drugged up, but I’m just curious where the saying originates.
@@anti-ethniccleansing465 Which is actually when they ceased t exist as a band. According to wikipedia, not always a reliable source, I know, pegged a date in 1974 when the band officially ended as a financial concern.
If you go to the Nixon Library you will find all kinds of sovieners with this famous photo. They have t-shirts, mugs, key chains and mugs. They even have an Elivis bobble head! Check it out the next time you're there or check out the website for Nixon/Elvis products.
If anybody is interested the book "Revelations from the Memphis Mafia" is one of the best books I've ever read. Its a great format from the beginning to the very end. It's written by Lamar Fike, Billy Smith and a few others from the start. There are parts of this book so crazy and you laugh out loud. There is a chapter about Elvis'd Chimp Scatter which is so god dam funny, as well as the time they were all traveling by car and ended up in this tiny town in Alabama or Louisiana I forgot which but Elvis needed some "medication". Elvis came up with the plan that someone has to know where the Pharmacist lives sine there is only one drug store. Sure enough the asked and were told where he lived, as the story goes about 9 PM they knock of the Pharm door. COuld you imagine how freaking surreal that would be?
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Only Elvis Presley could show up to the White House packing heat and looking like a southern TV evangelist, while interviewing to be James Bond.
Nah. Even a dude like justin Bieber could pull up at the white house lookin like trailer trash who works at a gas station . I bet he'd campaign for Joe Biden if he wasn't Canadian lmao
and you forgot high out of his mind, his drug of choice was codeine although he took a lot of other stuff like uppers and downers, the FBI warned Nixon about him after the visit and advised him to break off communication with Elvis.
I love this comment, fits so perfectly lol
Plot twist: he worked for the CIA
@@alfblue4734 nah hes definitely with Trump all his rapper friend are trump supporter and they would get passes out of jail.
Doing a study on substance use is certainly one way to put it.
I have to update my resumé
LOL I was just about to go there myself.
*Snort 😂
Amen to that !
🤣🤣
I'm actually having a lot more trouble wrapping my head around Michael Shannon portraying Elvis.
Horrible casting
It's actually a really wholesome, cute movie. Shannon didn't have to look like Elvis, he embodied his more child-like self but never made fun of him or demeaned him. He was brilliant in it to be honest.
Liberal casting director
@@Blessedone333AZ Elvis and Nixon if anything is a softly conservative film focusing on friendship, respect, breaking down barriers and attaining your dreams through hard-work, not hand outs. It also takes multiple swipes at (and I don't want to get political, I'm just saying it like the movie presents it) far-left ideology and focuses on the fact that both Elvis and Nixon, for all of their faults were self-made men who worked hard to get where they were. When Spacey gives the 'Look where I came from and look where you came from. Left wingers look at our success and want to tear it down because we took the hard road' speech, I was sitting there open mouthed pondering, "am I agreeing with Richard Nixon?" lol. It also presents Nixon as a devoted, loving father and beneath his gruff exterior a softy at heart, however south his career went later. It was nice to see him for once not outright demonized. If anything, I'm shocked Shannon wanted to do the movie.
The woooooorst casting choice. Wow.
Elvis had been up for days if not a week at this point. He was pale and puffy, and it's hard to believe the same man had been a picture of health in the Summer recording That's The Way It Is and its Vegas concert documentary. The concert grind and the pills that made it possible had already got to him and he was never the same again in body, mind, voice and spirit. Hair stayed on point, though.
It’s a miracle he lasted as long as he did with all those uppers and downers he popped plus his high fat southern diet on top of his crazy hectic work schedule. Sad ending for a talented man
Its amazing how he survived. Between the insane stress, work schedule, and heat (this was before widespread AC and when stage lights were basically just massive heat lamps) it's amazing he even survived with or without the drugs. That Kony 2012 guy had a mental breakdown with a shorter but similar schedule and he was sober
I remember this day and it was not strange... it was betrayal.
The King was southern blue collar rock along the lines of Cash and Allman Brothers.
Hs screwed up manager sold Elvis to Hollywood, the Military, Vegas.
It was a split between clean cut right wing music that the Beach Boys represented and counter culture rock and roll music the Doors, Hendrix, the Beatles and Stones represented.
Elvis was viewed by youth of my age at the time as a "sell out".
Pot was not legal and not illegal at the time but Nixon made it illegal to go after the Anti-War Protesters who were smoking it up as the only thing he had to arrest them. Elvis was his man to build up the generation who decades later were to be Trump's loyal slowly aging baby boomer minions.
The King is the Father of Country Music propaganda, he would have been a QAnon supporter if QAnon were around back then.
@@MrDXRamirez 💯👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
"Hair stayed en point tho". Lol gotta have the hair ..
Elvis was something ! You have to admit he had balls of steel, wakes up one day decides he wants a badge from the President of the United States gets on a plane by himself flies to Washington arranges an appt. with The POTUS ...AND GETS THE BADGE!! Incredible. Love him.
"Richard Nixon: Werewolf Hunter" would be a great companion piece to "Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter"!
Make that Presley and Nixon: Werewolf Hunters.
Could also try shoehorning Elvis into a James Bond role with Nixon/Q sending him on missions against werewolfs.
"Look, Elvis. These damn hippies are shooting up werewolf blood. We need to hunt em down or they're gonna attack San Francisco. Henry's getting us the silver bullets, so pick a pistol."
And then Nixon and Elvis go rhinestone trenchcoat Boondock Saints mode shooting werewolf hippies in San Francisco.
@@LedosKell wheres the Colonel in all this ??. He takes 70% of Elvis money and works Elvis like a slave to pay HIS old ass's gambling debts. The Colonel got to be the Vampire that drains there bank accou..... I mean blood ( aren't they same thing almost 🤔) and sucks the life out of Tricky Dick and The King
Also: Elvis shoots Nixon!
Now that's an alternative universe ^^
New message....I dont know how to say this...but I think we should assemble a team... *of mighty avengers....*
This was like the political equivalent of Marvel-DC crossover in its day.
Frrr😂😂😂
the most ambitious crossover in history
I wish Elvis is still alive. He was one of the greatest performers of all time
"Elvis Presley: Undercover Narc" sounds like Netflix material.
And a great SNL skit 😂
Wasn't they gonna make an animated series in Netflix called agent king.
Great I'm on it
I'd buy that movie
Got a narc badge and was taking illegal drugs . Ironic
Imagine if Elvis were alive in the time of social media.
Insanely Famous Till now
@@octavius8562 Do your research before posting. Elvis started touring in January 1970, with first stop at the Houston Astrodome. Over several days, 200,000 people saw him. He then went on to be the hottest ticket in the country in the 70's. He outdid everyone. I researched this years ago. The info was impeccably kept, down to how many were at each venue. He sold out every one, and if Parker had too small of a venue, he had to go back and do another concert. Almost 1700 in the 70's. Also Vegas twice a night. This video is filled with lies. I met Bud Krogh in Memphis and know the whole story. It, (the video...several really)with Jerry Schilling, whom I also met, tells all that went on that day and why. Nothing like this uploader says. 99% lies.You and this uploader obviously know very little about the life of Elvis. I wish people like you, who don't, would not post unless you have really done your homework. I, too was around in those 70's. I know what went on.
@@octavius8562To you again.... Remember one thing. Elvis NEVER lost any of his popularity at any time in his life, and in his death. During the 60's he made movies of which none lost money. He was the first to make a million per movie.
Shelley Fabares, who made 3 movies with him, recalls sitting in the huge 750 seat eating place of the stars. who worked at MGM Studios. She had been talking about his presence and how strong it was on a PBS show. She said people in that huge room had seen every celeb there was and couldn't care less. She sensed something behind her. The room went quiet. She turned and saw Elvis at the door looking in, and at the same time everyone in the room getting up rushing to the door. He had disappeared. She said here he was with the Beatles ruling the charts, at his lowest, and all these people were going to rush him. She said with that kind of thing, he would never live a long life. She said she would love him forever.
He went on to do the 68 Special which was the most watched show all year on TV. Did the '73 Aloha in Hawaii, seen via satellite by over a billion people. Was the hottest ticket in America in the 70's with nearly 1700 sold out concerts. Starting in 1997 until covid, Elvis in Concert, with him on the big screen and his live band and singers have traveled the world to sold out concerts. It starts up again this year. The man has never stopped. All the while, but for some covid years, 600,000 visit Graceland every year.
@Johnny NotEnglish talking from experience?
@@octavius8562 lol.... in one of the Elvis/nixon movies when Nixon says that meeting Elvis would make him popular with the young people, the aid chokes out "but sir, he plays--- [soto] Vegas". 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣.
Eh. Elvis always had his fans...
Undercover Elvis. Now, that's a cool band name!
Ironically, The Beatles admired Elvis. He was their true Rock And Roll hero. During their Cavern Club days they dressed like Elvis and sported Elvis inspired hair styles.
Yeah but later on they would have some smart ass put down on him .an make fun of him .so F them .
In the Beatles Anthology one of them recounted actually meeting Elvis and going to a house he was staying in, in Los Angeles (not Graceland) where Elvis basically just hung out watching TV with them, then showed off that he could play bass. 🤷♂️
They were a bit broken hearted about it years later when this story finally became public. And their bitchiness about him? They really wanted to BE Elvis and they were very competitive guys.
LED ZEPPELIN and ELVIS were the number one performing artists in the world then, I think Zeppelin were outselling him so Elvis wanted to meet them and did. They were both in the same city at the same time and Elvis invited them to his show, Zeppelin arrived late but then attended an after show party and met him and hit off. Robert Plant tells the story about this meeting about how cool Elvis was and how he used to sing an Elvis song as their sound check before a gig. When Elvis left several hours later he turned just before he (left the building ) and called out to Robert and started singing that song to him and the band ss he left. Robert Plant was blown away by this.
Kids will be kids.
Elvis: “DRUGS ARE RUINING THIS COUNTRY”
also Elvis: *pops perc and quaalude*
Lmao
Elvis was against street drugs even weed. Yes elvis did pills but his mentality was “if a doctor prescribes it then it’s not bad” which is not the case
@@Chicken_Wing91 Yeah exactly that’s why he’s making fun of him!
@@willissudweeks1050 for something a lot of people didn't know about in the 70's that are widely known today? seems legit
The whole thing was a scam so Elvis could carry drugs and guns anywhere he went.
Elvis, in he younger years was one fine looking man.🥰❤
He looks like a lesbian...
@@BichaelStevens at least he has a shot with Ellen
@@jamesagwe2981 who?
homeboy a pr*dat0r
it's a fact that he was, and those who deny it, well with due respect, idiots will always be idiots
I can just hear Nixon “This guy is fucking crazy!”
Cobra Commander: Yeah, he's a bit much.
Elvis has been and always will be the King of Rock and Roll!
The Jester of Vegas.
He actually loved Gospel way much more.
@@Bigbadwhitecracker WOW! It's hilarious to see the utter lack of knowledge about Elvis. Were you there starting in 1969? If so, please tell me YOUR opinion. If not, I was there each year and will tell YOU. Elvis lit up, not just the venue, but the whole city. We once got in to his show by asking a pit boss at Caesar's Palace, who put us in the invited only line. From the moment you got in the cab, that's all the drivers talked about until we would get to wherever we were staying that year. We stayed at the Sands once and in our rooms on the intercom, was Elvis. That's where the Rat Pack played. I saw most all shows on the strip through those years and there was nothing that ever topped him and his beauty, talent and charisma. Elvis did slow down after '74, but still put on good shows. No other entertainer has ever LIT UP a city like Elvis lit up Vegas, and was the start of other big names playing there to this day. 45 years after his passing, 600,000 people still go to Graceland, to the new 450 room plush hotel and the 200,000 sq ft Elvis Presley's Memphis complex across from Graceland housing one million artifacts, from cars, awards, gold/platinum records, costumes, wedding clothes, to jewelry, to WHY HE WENT TO THE WHITE HOUSE! THAT BADGE HE WANTED. He collected badges and THAT was the ONLY reason he was there. Made no difference what prez it was. When he wanted something he went for it. He was friends with Carter and remained non political until he died. He LIKED the Beatles. The Beatles said without Elvis, there would be no Beatles. You are watching the wrong video about this trip..
“Nixon’s back baby! Arroooooo!!”
I love the Futurama reference. LOL.
This would seem crazier, except for the fact that there was an Oval Office meeting between Trump and Kanye West. That makes the Nixon/Elvis meeting seem a lot more normal.
Nixon and Elvis were a lot more normal than Trump and Kanye.
Elvis went to the White House to get a badge. He collected them. It made NO difference WHO was in office when he decided he wanted THAT badge. It is on display across from Graceland in the 200,000 sq ft Elvis Presley's Memphis complex with a million other artifacts. There's pictures of Elvis with Carter also. He was non political.
Where does Trump meets Kim Kardashian fit on that flowchart ? 🤣🤣😘
Narrator voice always reminds me of that one grandpa who like to talking and drinking coffee in afternoon
Yet he's younger than your Grandpa🤣
@@swan1098 I’m Amish. My grandfather is 42.
@Central Intelligence Agency I think the Amish just discovered electricity
Dude sounds like kevin spacey
Elvis is America! ❤️🇺🇲❤️
I admire and adore Elvis, I wish I could have met him, he was a great Man. 🤴🏻
The King wasnt Wrong, Look at US today.
Honestly! History repeats itself…
The love affair between the rich and famous and political leaders seems to have deep and arduous roots
Sounds like a 33degree connection
@@missblink4611 mortar between bricks...Rothschild
Weird History always make good quality content. Cheers!
It's a POS! Go to the proper videos with the people who were there to get TRUTH.
I want Timeline: 1995 to come out already
Elvis only went for the Badge and that was it. Seeing he collected badges. He never turned anyone in for anything. He said whatever he thought it would take to get the Badge.
The appointed King of Rock, a cultural icon, wanted to meet the President and got what he wanted. This is all quite believable. 🧐
Self appointed King of Rock. He was an impostor and was NOT in anyway shape or form the king of anything, except for apporation.
@@addictedtothewrittenword3451 you sound jealous. Long live the King
@@addictedtothewrittenword3451 "Elvis was the 'Big Bang' of rock 'n roll" - Chuck Berry.
"'If you ask anyone, I'm talking about people from all kinds of music - Blues, Soul, Country, Gospel, whatever - and if they are honest with you and have been around long enough to know---they'll thank Elvis for his contributions. He opened many doors and by all his actions, not just his words, he showed his love for all people'." - B.B King.
'If anyone says Elvis Presley was a racist', charged B.B. King in the 2010 interview. 'Then they don't know a thing about Elvis Presley or music history".
Elvis didn't appoint himself the name either. It was a female journalist in 1956 who did that.
@@Shaunny.Longlegs whatever lies you need to keep telling yourself to make cultural opreation seem OK by all means keep telling I find it very entertaining.
@@addictedtothewrittenword3451, Oh my, you're a strange one. Music has no culture it's just blowing in the wind.
Elvis was so cool. He did what he wanted, but he was always a gentleman and polite. He's charm the ladies and authority figures, to the point that they didn't know what was happening. He was The King and a Great American Hero
You left out the predator part.
Elvis Presley
Famous but overrated as hell musician
Decent singer
Epileptic dancer
Shitty actor
Drug addict
Predator
I always thought that the letter Elvis sent was a joke or a news article from The Onion.
You got me in the first half, but Elvis just got a lot cooler to me 🤩
Great video!
2:32 Despite being the most famous person in the world, he still has the grace to introduce himself. Celebrities aren't like that today.
Thank ya very much.
Elvis has left the building!!!
Number forty-seven said to number three
"You're the cutest jailbird I ever did see"
"I sure would be delighted with your company"
"Come on and do the Jailhouse Rock with me"
Let's rock
Everybody, let's rock
Everybody in the whole cell block
Was dancin' to the Jailhouse Rock
Elvis being my idol, this story never ceases to amaze me in how crazy it really is lol, I truly believe the main reason he did this was like Pricilla said so he can carry his guns and bring his drugs anywhere he wanted, and used an excuse like the youth and American culture as an excuse. He did also have a fascination with law enforcement and had a collection of badges.
And who would believe anything she says about Elvis???? She has told so many lies about him to make him look bad & she was Miss Innocent, what a joke she is!!!
Elvis was truly an amazing person, and really deserved the title of The King. The man had it all, even Muhammad Ali called him The Greatest
Yeah we know that
Always excited for the videos
He collected badges. That's the extent of it.
Plot twist. Elvis just wants to be president
It sounds like something that would happen in an alternative universe.
After trump and Biden, I’d take it.
Nice to meet you, King President sir.
Uh huh huh!
Would be old enough now, since only People fit for the retiring home are becoming President nowadays 🤔
Wasn't "king" and the colonel's patsy enough?
Check out Alice Cooper's story about when he first met Elvis. Quite the tale.
This sounds good. Thanks for the tip
@@heatherrogers548 it involves him, Linda Lovelace, Chubby Checker, and the .45.
@@brettcooper3893 ooohhhh
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Thanks for the tip! I looked it up after seeing your post. What a crazy story, and hilariously delivered by Alice Cooper. Liza Minnelli was in the mix, too. I put a link at the top for anyone who wants to see Cooper tell his story.
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Ahahaha! I just found footage of Liza telling her story of that same night. Also hilarious.
6:38 Elvis is from Tupelo, Mississippi. He moved to Tennessee when he was a teenager.
C'mon, Weird History! Get it together!
calm down jamal, don't pull out the 9
@@bri-yx4be 🤣 I do what I want! LOL
GOD SAVE OUR KING!!
Change the WAS, my friend. Legends don’t die
I'm Not a fan of Elvis, but I do respect him for serving his country. Unlike other celebrity that hide behind religion because they were cowards.
This is the most glorious video on this subject everrrrrr
He actually was right on with his concerns.
He loved America... rolling in his grave by now.
I love this story!!❤
Can we get a weird history on New Orleans? From Voodoo Legends to Red Light district French quarter to the catholic chuch only allowing men and nuns in the city leading to a prison release of all women
Elvis 👑 of rock’n’roll 👏
Thank you for this video ! 😊💐
Man, gotta cut deep to people who grew up during the time of Elvis listening to him and seeing him live, then find out he wants to sell you out to the man. Nixon wants to connect to the youth, but Elvis wants to push back against those pesky youths, who, he essentially created. The whole story is nuts 😂😂
For real man he’s an ass. I mean if he actually knew about something bad he should tell but he doesn’t need to go looking for weed....
It was a scam so he could carry drugs and weapons anywhere he went, and not being a traitor.
No it's not nuts if you don't know anything about Elvis. If you did, it makes perfect sense. Elvis wanted ONE thing out of this trip, that was pretty spontaneous....A BADGE! He collected BADGES!. They are promanitely displayed at the 200,000 sq ft complex across from Graceland, called Elvis Presley's Memphis, housing one million of his artifacts. There's another secret archive building that houses another one million artifacts which are rotated out. He did not want it to "travel the world". He wanted the biggest BADGE of them all....FOR HIS COLLECTION. Yes, he carried it around frequently. It really is that simple. He said what he thought he needed to say to get what he wanted. Made NO difference WHO was in the White House that day. He was friends with Carter. He was not political...ever. all for a badge. And that stupid movie that people actually believe astounds me.
@@FuckPedophileBiden Who told you that? You are in the wrong video, or just live your life believing untrue rumors and not factual evidence with the people who were there.
@@keetonplace Priscilla Presley was married to Elvis, and knows more about him than you ever will. From the book she wrote Elvis and Me. "The narc badge represented some kind of ultimate power to him," "With the federal narcotics badge, he believed he could legally enter any country both wearing guns and carrying any drugs he wished."
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If memory serves Elvis was from Mississippi NOT Tennessee.
Born in Tupelo, Mississippi, grew up in Memphis from the age of 13.
I love this channel. But who's gonna spend £17 on a wierd history phone case 😄 🤣 😂
I would 😞
17 quid...?! That's a chunk of change for a phone case indeed
@@feliz1443 I know right, there was the link for it under the video. It was £17+ shipping and it was literally just a black case that had "wierd history" at the top 😄
@@feliz1443 haha, their cups are £13.05 😲
What was so strange? He Is, and will always be the King.
Elvis was so weird that's why I love him. Dont knock those conspiracies when they say pop stars are government agents 😂
I love 'Elvis' weirdness too. Look at celebrities today. I saw Eminem in concert a few years ago and he stopped the damn show to lecture everyone in the audience about some 'higher power'/rehab 'don't-do-drugs' bullshit. The quintessential 'post rehab' speech you get from dudes at a bar who don't drink but still hang around to preach at you. Elvis getting buck wild as an undercover Fed at large, firing guns at the TV and fitting his crew with TCB rings is where it's at. Love me some Elvis.
How can they be govt agents
I love all of your videos!!! Keep the content coming!!!
This is legendary 😂 Presley wanted another deputy badge for his collection, so he just rolls up at the White House to get it from the president 😂 and it actually works.
Well of course. They dont call him the king for nothing 😆
@talldreamyopposum They not only gave him the badge, they deputiezed him as a DEA agent that day.
Elvis is the definition of "too cool for school".
Very interesting brother..
3:36 "Undercover Elvis...sounds like a movie waiting to be made." Netflix: "Hold our beer...."
Even Willie Nelson and Johnny Cash would scratch their heads at this and say "Are you out of your goddamn mind?!...Did it work?"
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂🤣🤣😘
Elvis: Every pill I take, is one less on the street!
😂
He was actually from Tupelo, Mississippi and not Tennessee. I know this because I know some of his family and live a few miles from his birth place.
When are you going to start back up on the 90's timeline? Been over a month now since the last episode
Seconded. We are getting to the juicy parts of the 1990s!
It will be back this Sunday
I think a cool video idea would be How the American and Indian war started and like make a timeline and stuff
This was such a cool story I’ve never heard this one before
Elvis Presley is, without question, one of the strangest Figures, of the mid-20th Century...
No, his son in law was one step worse.
This is gold.
I’d honestly want a video about ancient folk tales and their orgins
Yes. Elvis Presley made a great federal agent. The King!
"Agent Elvis" trailer brought me here.
Fascinating rundown of one of our weirdest episodes. Unfortunate that several of the frames are people who are either dressed like Elvis Presley, or bear some resemblance to him--but are not him. Kind of makes the video seem like it was made by bots.
One of the best history stories...
Elvis was from Mississippi, not TN.
What a sad story for Elvis...
where is 1995....been waiting so long for it.
I want a Tarantino movie where Nixon actually takes on Elvis offer and he becames a spy for the government
Kurt Russell played Elvis Presley in the 1979 ABC made-for-television biographical film directed by John Carpenter. Named "ELVIS"
Presley....Elvis Presley
A movie should be made of this. It is so hilarious but poignant at the same time. Concidering what happened to them both later on.
"Elvis Meets Nixon" 1997 and "Elvis & Nixon" 2016
Both worth watching for different reasons.
While you're in there -- "Elvis Found Alive" 2012, by Joel Gilbert is fun
Add John Wayne and J Edgar Hoover, and viola...Legion of Doom: Origins
Yes he sure would have Amen to that
Elvis wasn't wrong
I think that Elvis wanted to meet Nixon and get a Federal Badge for his police badge collection. Elvis really respected police officers and if he hadn’t been a world famous performer he would’ve been a cop. The movie Elvis and Nixon is a trip, Michael Shannon as Elvis and Kevin Spacey as Nixon.
It is true , a private investigator had a badge and when Elvis saw it , Elvis wanted a badge just like it.
I genuinely thought this was a song by the menzingers when it played on random without me looking at the playlist or curating the overall content, that was crazy. But I'm digging it either way
Elvis wanted the badge because he collected them, and nothing was higher than a federal badge. Pricilla's comment was silly, and most likely because the whole trip occurred after an argument the two had.
Ironic that EP wanted to help on the war on drugs while being stoked to the gills. And, news flash, the Beatles had been broken up for months at the time of the meeting.
Nope Beatles broke up in 1971. On the day I was born.
@@Me-qp8vz www.google.com/amp/s/www.history.com/.amp/this-day-in-history/paul-mccartney-announces-the-breakup-of-the-beatles
@@stevenblackwood6097
It sounds like you are both correct, because “Me 2“ sounds to be talking about when the official business paperwork was all finalized for the break up, and you are referring to when Paul announced he was leaving the band.
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P.S. By chance have you done a web search yet for “white house memo written by Bud Krogh of Elvis Presley meeting President Richard Nixon?”
You’ll find that according to the memo, Elvis was talking about the Beatles in past tense, not current-day tense, so in my opinion, that seems to indicate that Elvis knew they were no longer actively together.
*From the memo:*
“Presley indicated that he thought the Beatles _HAD_ been a real force for anti-American spirit. He said that the Beatles came to this country, made their money, and then returned to England where they promoted an anti-American theme. The president nodded in agreement and expressed some surprise.”
Perhaps I am misunderstanding your OP, but it sounded as if you thought that Elvis was acting as if the Beatles were still active during the time of his meeting with President Nixon in December 1970.
P.P.S. I just did another web search for “what does ‘being stoked to the gills’ mean? Urban dictionary” because I had never heard of that phrase before, and nothing came up. Was any part of that phrase a typo in your OP, or if not, can you explain where this saying came from? I understand that you are using the phrase in a way to say that Elvis was drugged up, but I’m just curious where the saying originates.
@@anti-ethniccleansing465 Which is actually when they ceased t exist as a band. According to wikipedia, not always a reliable source, I know, pegged a date in 1974 when the band officially ended as a financial concern.
Elvis Presley seeing Richard Nixon was big at the time.
If you go to the Nixon Library you will find all kinds of sovieners with this famous photo. They have t-shirts, mugs, key chains and mugs. They even have an Elivis bobble head! Check it out the next time you're there or check out the website for Nixon/Elvis products.
Haha that's great!!! Their photo is the most requested at the Nat. Archives
That was just. Weird.
The president meets the king!
Elvis was right about who the problem was...he just didn't know Nixon was corrupt too.
Yes, Elvis Presley was sworn n by President Richard Nixon, swore n Elvis as a DEA Agent n the oval office. BAD ASSS
Heck, Elvis could have been President!
May I ask how/from where you get the images you use? I’m starting a similar channel and am worried about copyright
wow i'm early
Lol same
Same
And what happened to 1995?
Are the timeline videos monthly now?
Yeah we want 1995
If anybody is interested the book "Revelations from the Memphis Mafia" is one of the best books I've ever read. Its a great format from the beginning to the very end. It's written by Lamar Fike, Billy Smith and a few others from the start. There are parts of this book so crazy and you laugh out loud. There is a chapter about Elvis'd Chimp Scatter which is so god dam funny, as well as the time they were all traveling by car and ended up in this tiny town in Alabama or Louisiana I forgot which but Elvis needed some "medication". Elvis came up with the plan that someone has to know where the Pharmacist lives sine there is only one drug store. Sure enough the asked and were told where he lived, as the story goes about 9 PM they knock of the Pharm door. COuld you imagine how freaking surreal that would be?
Love your videos, great history content while entertaining as well
NOT history! Watch the REAL videos...several of them, with the actual people who were in the room during the whole thing. this is junk.
Elvis gave Nixon a gun
THE DIVINE COMEDY WEIRD HISTORY!!!!!!!!!!! PLEASSSSSEE