BRIAN THOMAS

1957

William "Smokey" Robinson Jr. is 86 today.

Whitney Elizabeth Houston
(August 9, 1963 – February 11, 2012)

Whitney Houston, one of the world’s top-selling singers
from the mid-1980s to late 1990s,was found dead in the
bathtub of her suite at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly
Hills, California on February 11, 2012.

Houston’s death was the result of accidental drowning;
heart disease and cocaine, which was found in her
system, were determined to be contributing factors.

Released November 26, 1996.

President Richard Nixon met Elvis Presley in the Oval Office
on December 21, 1970, a famously strange meeting initiated
by Elvis, who wanted to offer his services in the war on drugs
and asked Nixon for a federal narcotics badge, which Nixon
granted, giving the world one of the most requested photos
in U.S. National Archives history.

Elvis showing off his cuff links to the president.

Elvis presented Nixon with signed photographs of his family.

                           
TIM MAGUIRE