On December 21st 1970 Elvis Presley, the King of Rock ‘n Roll, turned up at The White House in Washington uninvited and asked to meet President Nixon. Elvis’s luck was in that day as one of the Presidents Aides was a huge fan of the singer and told his boss that such a meeting may help his ever flagging popularity, so Nixon agreed.
What Elvis had come to do was volunteer to be made a “Federal Agent-at-Large” in the Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs as long as he could have an Official Badge. We’re not sure if he got one but before her left that day he gave the President a Colt 45 pistol and some photos of himself.
As looney as this all seems, it is in fact a true story and the iconic photograph taken at the time has subsequently become the most requested item in history from the Smithsonian National Archives. Now it has become the basis of one of the most highly anticipated new movies of 2016 starring Michael Shannon as Elvis and Kevin Spacey as Richard Nixon. They do after all have a great deal of leeway with the script as history has seen proved that these iconic figures where not only two of the 20th Century’s most important Americans, but they were also both also ‘away with the fairies’ some of the time too
Here is the first trailer of the movie that will be released in April 2016
