Original White House Crasher

It was almost exactly 29 years ago that the first original White House crasher showed up wanting to meet the president. December 21, 1970. Egil "Bud" Krogh was a White House Deputy for Domestic Affairs from 1970 to 1972 and he received a call from a guy saying "The King is here". He looked over the Presidents schedule and found that no King was to scheduled that day and his friend on the phone said "No, not just any King the King of Rock and Roll- Elvis, he's in Washington and wants to meet the president". A letter was sent over explaining what his thoughts....

Elvis Presley, dressed in a purple jumpsuit and a white shirt open to the navel with a big gold chain and thick-rimmed sunglasses walked down the hall of the white house with two body guards and talked to Bud about how much he felt for his country, how he had served in the military and felt obligated to help out the country because of all it had given to him..
Bud thought that the guy was saying all the right things that Nixon would like to hear so he wrote a memo to the president with a few suggestions of things to talk about. Then Dwight Chapin wrote a memo to Chief of Staff Bob Halderman, to get an approval for the meeting and soon it was approved.
Elvis shows up at 12 noon. Soon after the Secret Service calls saying that there was a problem - Elvis Presley had brought a gun to give the president.

It was explained that there are no guns in the Oval Office and that was just standard policy. Elvis understood and the present was given to one of the presidents handlers.
Around 12:30 Elvis was led into the Oval Office and they began having a weird discussion about many things that had nothing to do youth and drugs in America. Elvis began telling the president how difficult it was to play in Las Vegas. The president said, 'I understand, Las Vegas is a tough town'. And then Elvis said, 'And you know, the Beatles came over here and made a lot of money and said some un-American things'.
The president looks around like, 'What's all this about the Beatles?'
Then it's clear to everyone in the room why Elvis was really there....he began with..'Mr. President, can you get me a badge from the Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs?' And the president looks at Bud and says 'Bud, can we get him a badge?' And Bud said, 'Well, Mr. President, if you want to get him a badge, we can do that'. He said, 'Well, get him a badge'.

Well, Elvis was so happy about this, he steps around the side of the desk and he goes over and he grabs him. And then Elvis asked if he could bring in his bodyguards, to which the president said, 'Bud, do we have time for that?' Bud thought, 'You're this far into it, why not finish it off'. So, he said, 'Yes, sir, you've got a few more minutes'.
So Elvis bodyguards came in and, the president shook hands with them and told Elvis, 'You've got some big ones here, Elvis'. And he said, 'Yes', and the president went behind his desk, and opened up the bottom drawer to give them each a gift. Elvis sensing that there was a lot of stuff in that drawer went behind the desk and, as the president is taking out the cufflinks and the paperweights and the golf balls, Elvis is reaching in towards the back of the drawer and taking out the real gold stuff, the valuable presents--because they were sort of lined up in order of expense, or cost. The higher the roller, the more expensive the present.

Elvis starts taking all these things out, and he says, 'Mr. President, they have wives'. (this was 4 days before Christmas) And so he dived back into the drawer again and out come the presents for the wives. And they walked out of there - with their hands filled with all of these presidential goodies.
Elvis, was given a badge and its believed he carried it with him for many years and it's on display at Graceland. If you visit there you can tell it was well worn around the edges. While it carried no authority with it - clearly it meant something to The King.
If you want to read more on this topic buy The Day Elvis Met Nixon Book by: Egil "Bud" Krogh