What Really Happened When Elvis Met Richard Nixon
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- Опубликовано: 1 июн 2021
- In 1970, there were few - if any - people in America more famous than Elvis Presley and Richard Nixon. Both the King of Rock and Roll and the president of the United States were at the top of the world, and only a few years away from their dramatic falls from grace - which is part of what makes their December 21, 1970, meeting at the White House so fascinating.
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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.
"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....*
the most ambitious crossover in history
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.
"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
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 ..
This was like the political equivalent of Marvel-DC crossover in its day.
Frrr😂😂😂
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.
“Nixon’s back baby! Arroooooo!!”
I love the Futurama reference. LOL.
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.
I can just hear Nixon “This guy is fucking crazy!”
Cobra Commander: Yeah, he's a bit much.
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
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...
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
Always excited for the videos
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 ? 🤣🤣😘
If you can find a movie called, "Elvis Meets Nixon," I recommend it. It's a fun watch. It's a bit of a comedy.
Yes! @6:38 is a screen shot.
Seen and agree. We’ll worth watching. When I watched it I did think it was all a bit far fetched. Alas.
Love that movie i have one on VHS its the first one. Then another one came out later .i like the first one
Thanks I’ll have to watch it
@@robertstdon9280 where do you look for it?
Great video!
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.
Having been to Graceland. Elvis was something of a collector of badges.
I wish Elvis is still alive. He was one of the greatest performers of all time
I love all of your videos!!! Keep the content coming!!!
Thank ya very much.
Elvis has left the building!!!
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..
Thank you for this video ! 😊💐
I want Timeline: 1995 to come out already
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
I always thought that the letter Elvis sent was a joke or a news article from The Onion.
Elvis is America! ❤️🇺🇲❤️
This is the most glorious video on this subject everrrrrr
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.
Very interesting brother..
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
I love this story!!❤
This was such a cool story I’ve never heard this one before
You got me in the first half, but Elvis just got a lot cooler to me 🤩
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.
The King wasnt Wrong, Look at US today.
Honestly! History repeats itself…
One of the best history stories...
Elvis 👑 of rock’n’roll 👏
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.
This is gold.
Very interesting
I’d honestly want a video about ancient folk tales and their orgins
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?
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
3:36 "Undercover Elvis...sounds like a movie waiting to be made." Netflix: "Hold our beer...."
May I ask how/from where you get the images you use? I’m starting a similar channel and am worried about copyright
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
@@brettcooper3893
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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.
@@brettcooper3893
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Ahahaha! I just found footage of Liza telling her story of that same night. Also hilarious.
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
What a sad story for Elvis...
Greatest story of all time
grazie
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
He actually was right on with his concerns.
He loved America... rolling in his grave by now.
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 😲
This is interesting, I wonder what really Elvis was thinking
He wasn't
Elvis wanted a narcotics badge…and he got one. Elvis would later embellish the significance of the badge, but he received one none the less. He is The King!
@@martyduncan2636 You are probably spot on
He collected badges. That's the extent of it.
I heard there was an Elvis sighting in Vermont!
😎
Legend
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 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
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 Presley seeing Richard Nixon was big at the time.
If memory serves Elvis was from Mississippi NOT Tennessee.
Born in Tupelo, Mississippi, grew up in Memphis from the age of 13.
I admire and adore Elvis, I wish I could have met him, he was a great Man. 🤴🏻
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.
GOD SAVE OUR KING!!
Change the WAS, my friend. Legends don’t die
Ooh ooh mr. History.
How about andrea moda in f1 story?
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?
What was so strange? He Is, and will always be the King.
That was just. Weird.
Wow as always been 3 years I feel like
Elvis is the definition of "too cool for school".
The president meets the king!
U sound like my history teacher
Kurt Russell played Elvis Presley in the 1979 ABC made-for-television biographical film directed by John Carpenter. Named "ELVIS"
Thanks. Would like to know about Joni Mitchell
Presley....Elvis Presley
"Agent Elvis" trailer brought me here.
0:35 My Pillow Guy: "Hold my pillow..."
Where did you buy your voice from?
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!!!
where is 1995....been waiting so long for it.
2 KINGS
I've heard the opposite. That Nixon was a huge Elvis fan. I've heard that quite a few times actually.
His daughter Julie loved Elvis
THE DIVINE COMEDY WEIRD HISTORY!!!!!!!!!!! PLEASSSSSEE
Yes he sure would have Amen to that
I first heard about this on drunk history.
can you do a video on Christine De Pizan?
❤❤❤
Could you make a video about japanese history?I Love your channel btw
That new intro 👀
This is such weird history.
Thanks for weird History
Reminds me of that old spongebob episode where Mrs. Puff gives SpongeBob the hall monitor badge just to shut him up.
History of ketchup! I’ve always wondered haha
Such a weird aspect of history indeed! There was that movie made surrounding this...👍
There is clips from the movie in this video...