Southern Hospitality

Singer Elvis Presley was so excited that a fellow southerner was president he called Jimmy Carter often during his tenure, Carter's Chief of Staff Hamilton Jordan has revealed. “Trouble was, Elvis was usually pretty loaded when he called,” Jordan says. “It got to the point that the president would just hand off the phone to me or whoever was around.” But The King was so high, he “never caught on.” (AP) ...The President has left the building.