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Hey and welcome to the short stuff.

I'm Josh in those Chuck in those Jerry and Elvis is in the building in spirit at least.

And so is Richard Nixon.

Everybody's mad about that.

So this is short stuff like I said.

That's right.

And this is about the very famous meeting of Elvis Presley and Richard Nixon.

And we got this information from December 2010 article in Smithsonian Magazine by Peter

Carlson, which had some great details about this very famous meeting on December 21,

1970.

Yes.

Which is that you might have thought was Photoshopped.

Well, do you remember one of the first Photoshopps we ever got from our pal Van Nostrin was

of us as Elvis and Nixon?

That's right.

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