it's nixon and elvis pressley. i'll let jeff tell it first. jeff: one day sitting in my office in the old executive office building, i received a call from bud krog whose office was literally across the haul from mine. and he said the king is here. i said what? the king is here. bud, i'm really busy. what do you want? elvis pressley is at the north gate of the white house and he wants to see the president. i said, you've got to be kidding me. no, i'm not kidding you. come over to my office. we've got to prepare talking points for the president. before the staff would bring in someone to visit the president in the oval office. the staff would prepare talking points. here's what we suggest that you say. and the thrust of what we wanted president nixon to say to elvis is to try to get elvis involved in some anti-drug abuse comments. so i'm -- we prepare the remarks. elvis is invited into the oval office and he was bringing with him a silver plated .45 automatic that he wanted to give the president. >> commemorative pistol. beautiful box. >> the s

it's nixon and elvis pressley. i'll let jeff tell it first. jeff: one day sitting in my office in the old executive office building, i received a call from bud krogh whose office was literally across the haul -- hall from mine. and he said the king is here. i said what? the king is here. bud, i'm really busy. what do you want? elvis pressley is at the north gate of the white house and he wants to see the president. i said, you've got to be kidding me. no, i'm not kidding you. come over to my office. we've got to prepare talking points for the president. before the staff would bring in someone to visit the president in the oval office, the staff would prepare talking points. here's what we suggest that you say. and the thrust of what we wanted president nixon to say to elvis is to try to get elvis involved in some anti-drug abuse comments. so i'm -- we prepare the remarks. elvis is invited into the oval office and he was bringing with him a silver plated .45 automatic that he wanted to give the president. >> commemorative pistol. beautiful box.

he was elvis pressley of that class and very gracious. [laughter] but i think he was the president of your freshman class if memory serves me correctly so back home that is a big deal. and i remember him declining the opportunity to run for freshman class president. that is how popular he was but he didn't run. and that is a curious strategy decision what better to go back home to say i am so popular even the members of the house like me he didn't do it and he took a different path. i started to watch him and then one night we had dinner in the basement of the capitol hill club and i said i told him you have earned every bit of political capital you have don't let anybody else spend that for you. >> my theory of mr. smith goes to washington actually is a sin in them for deer in the headlights. i felt like a fish out of water. i didn't want to go to washington i wanted to stay in south carolina. but you talk about the issues then to be a candidate so i have to go to washington. military or public service? that's washington. we might vote f