Dick and the King.

What an auspicious day! For it not only marks the birthdays of benevolent Swedish monarch Dante Fontana and genius American composer Frank Zappa. It is also the 40th anniversary of the day Elvis Presley showed up unannounced at the White House asking to be made a federal drug enforcement agent. He was eventually whisked inside to be introduced President Richard Nixon in one of the more surreal summit meetings between politics and pop culture. The National Archives has an interactive online presentation about the event, filled with plenty of Flash and other modern internet trickery.

Ford Pardons Nixon

Bad Postcards commemorates the 36th anniversary of Nixon's pardon with this horrible Dick-in-wax postcard. The only thing is needs to make it look more like tricky Dick is a five o'clock shadow. Thanks for the nightmares, Bad Postcards!

Nixon Family Album

Check out the Nixon Family Album over at Bostworld.

Great World Leaders at Leisure

Nixon Bowling....

Mao playing ping pong....


Stalin & Lenin crossing the Delaware....
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....and Castro eating a Banana. (no image posted, MrDanteFontana would only censor it)