SANTA ANA, Calif., Jan. 7 (UPI) -- The black velvet suit and gold belt studded with diamonds that Elvis Presley wore for a meeting with President Richard Nixon will go on display in California.
The exhibition at the Richard Nixon Library and Museum marks what would have been Presley's 72nd birthday Monday, the Orange County Register reported. Presley died in 1977, seven years after he met with Nixon at the White House.
Nixon's respectable gray suit will also be displayed.
During the meeting, Presley asked to be made a special agent in the war on drugs. Nixon gave him a special badge from the Bureau of Narcotic and Dangerous Drugs.
Egil "Bud" Krogh, the Nixon aide involved in the meeting, said he does not know if Presley was on drugs during his White House visit. Presley's early death was brought on partly by an addiction to prescription drugs.
"He was scratching himself during the meeting, but he said he had a rash that was bothering him for a couple days so I didn't think anything of it," Krogh said. "I never had any idea that he had a prescription-drug problem."
