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Suspicious Mind: Elvis Hails Hoover, Hounds Fab Four
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Suspicious Mind: Elvis Hails Hoover, Hounds Fab Four
Ten days after Elvis Presley (who, you might have heard, died 20 years ago) made his famous 1970 trip to Richard Nixon's White House, the singer was granted a private tour of FBI Headquarters. This 1971 FBI memo recounts Presley's visit and the singer's strange observations about the Beatles, Jane Fonda, and the Smothers Brothers. But unlike Tricky Dick, a (supposedly) vacationing J. Edgar Hoover missed a personal audience with The King. We think the repressed FBI director was actually hiding in his office until he was sure that the freaky Elvis had left the building. (3 pages)
