Chronology

On this day in 1970 , RN met Elvis.  Okay, that’s not the most substantive historical observation that one could make today.  The Orange County Register offers some very good advice about history: Beware of anachronisms. An anachronism in its broadest terms is...

The President and the King

In The Smithsonian, Peter Carlson recounts the famous 1970 meeting between RN and Elvis Presley.  He quotes Egil Krogh’s notes: “I’m on your side,” Elvis told Nixon, adding that he’d been studying the drug culture and Communist...