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What happened when Elvis met Nixon?

Bud Krogh describes the day Nixon met Elvis

One morning in December 1970, an unexpected visitor turned up at the Nixon White House - Elvis Presley, bearing a note requesting a meeting with the President.

The subsequent meeting between Elvis and Nixon was captured first in a photograph - which is the US National Archive's most requested document - and now in a film, Elvis & Nixon.

In the Oval Office was a third man - administration official Bud Krogh, later jailed for his role in the Watergate scandal. He told Mishal Husain about the meeting.

(Image: Richard Nixon, Elvis Presley and Bud Krogh. Credit: National archives.)

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