Elvis
Because of his work regarding illegal drugs, he managed the visit of Elvis Presley to the White House on December 21, 1970. Elvis had arrived at the gate with a letter for President Nixon requesting a personal meeting about how he could help the government fight the drug trade. The meeting took place and Nixon gave Presley an actual narcotics agent badge. Krogh wrote a book about these events The Day Elvis met Nixon (Pejama Press, 1994) ISBN 0-9640251-0-8.
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“Commercial to the core, Elvis was the kind of singer dear to the heart of the music business. For him to sing a song was to sell a song. His G clef was a dollar sign.”
—Albert Goldman (b. 1927)