Elvis hugged the startled Nixon

Such a surreal story that I had to share it on the anniversary. In case you already know it, I added a second. Also, 7 other things worth your time.

Kind of a fun and strange story from history today; we haven’t done one of these in a while.

Fifty-one years ago this morning, Elvis Presley showed up at the White House, bearing a handwritten letter he’d scrawled during a redeye flight.

He'd met Vice President Spiro Agnew, he wrote, and he now hoped to meet President Nixon, in order to volunteer to help…