How Elvis got his anti drugs badge from Nixon: From Guardian archive, 3 Dec 1986

Newly published Presidential papers reveal the King's rants against the Beatles and drug culture to NixonElvis Presley bitterly denounced the Beatles for their anti-Americanism during a White House meeting with President Nixon in December, 1970.The rock and roll star, who died of longterm drug abuse in 1977, also told the President that he could influence the hippie movement against the use of drugs and asked to be made a federal drug enforcement agent. Eventually he was given a specially-made B...

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