have you ever felt betrayed by elvis, for supporting Nixon ?

The truth is we never knew, with the exception of his remarks on Adlai Stevenson, what Elvis' politics were because he chose not to make that information public. Apparently though he paid his taxes in good faith. As far as the Nixon visit, who's to say whether Elvis was a fan. It seemed more to me that he wanted a BND badge and went to the source. Done and done.

When you deal with a manager like Colonel Parker so many years,, it is no surprise you can't see how a crook was Nixon in politics. It's a dark side of Elvis's personna. He mocked all the time "message songs" playing safe with sentimental and rythmic material that wouldn't raise any social issues. I tought he had made some kind of a statement with If I Can Dream and In The Ghetto, but that only lasted over night: Vegas became "business as usual". Sorry guys, but as much as I love Elvis, I can't but think that he missed some dramatic issues in the society and the world of his days. Still I collect FTD Classic like a madman. I can make the difference between the artist and the citizen. The problem with Elvis's celebrity and blind adulation is that he was forgiven a lot of things, nobody else would have gotten away with. We know today that some very rich and famous singers and artists use the fiscal paradised to escape their citizenship responsibility. It's not always a "Wonderful World". Fortunately Elvis never did that and he gave around tons of gifts to friends and money to charitable organizations. Colonel Parker never let him sing at the White House for JFK and Elvis never disputed that but he took on himself to meet President Nixon: what was it for incidentally? Just bravado?

Lots of artists are apolitical. Dolly Parton is an example. There's nothing dark about it.

In terms of Elvis playing it safe by avoiding message songs, although he did do a handful, the thing is that most message songs are bad and date quickly. It's something very hard to do. It wasn't in Elvis' wheel house and he deserves credit for trying it with some success. But overall, I can understand why an artist would avoid those type songs besides alienating a certain part of the base.

Richard Nixon, by the way, was far from the worst president of the United States. (In answer to another post.) He may have been the most corrupt and self-serving but this is the guy after all who opened negotiations with Red China and the Soviets (one of the hugest booms to humanity in the 20th century), who oversaw the creation of the EPA, lowered the voting age to 18 so the potential soldiers in Viet Nam could have a say in the people sending them on their missions. It's a tremendous contradiction but f you leave that crook part out, he was pretty good.

As others have pointed out most of the truly vile things Nixon did in office were not well known until after he left office.

Richard Nixon, by the way, was far from the worst president of the United States.

Correct. That honor belongs to George W. Bush, whose worst transgressions while President will likely not become common knowledge until long after we are dead.

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Richard Nixon, by the way, was far from the worst president of the United States.

Correct. That honor belongs to George W. Bush, whose worst transgressions while President will likely not become common knowledge until long after we are dead.

Absouletly right.
W oversaw the worst erosion of civil liberties(in the name of combating "terroism") the USA has ever seen.
Hopefully,Obama(who unfortunately has continued many of these policies)will undue these unfortunate policies in his second term.

Richard Nixon, by the way, was far from the worst president of the United States.

Correct. That honor belongs to George W. Bush, whose worst transgressions while President will likely not become common knowledge until long after we are dead.

Absouletly right.
W oversaw the worst erosion of civil liberties(in the name of combating "terroism") the USA has ever seen ...

Sadly, the very public failures of the 2001-2009 Bush administration are far from the worst examples of what was done during his administration. Stay healthy, try to live a long life, and just before you leave this world perhaps you'll officially learn of the truly evil and despicable decisions these scoundrels made. But you won't learn a thing until every one of them is no longer around to be prosecuted.