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From an Elvis Australia fan club interview with Nixon’s former White House Deputy for Domestic Affairs, Egil ‘Bud’ Krogh:

I thought, ‘Well, you know, this guy seems to be saying the things that that Richard Nixon would like to hear, so let’s see if we can’t set up a meeting’. So I wrote a memo to the president suggesting some talking points and, and Dwight Chapin wrote a memo to then-Chief of Staff Bob Haldeman, to get approval for this meeting. And it came back approved.
But anyway, we walked in a half an hour later into the Oval Office and the president got up. It was a little bit awkward at first, because I’m not sure that Elvis really believed that he was there. They had a really weird discussion about a lot of things that had nothing to do with the talking points I had written. Elvis was telling the president how difficult it was to play in Las Vegas. The president said, ‘I understand, Las Vegas is a tough town’. And then Elvis said, ‘And you know, the Beatles came over here and made a lot of money and said some un-American things’. And the president looked at me, like, ‘Well, what’s this about the Beatles?’
And then the real reason for the trip finally came out as Elvis said, ‘Mr. President, can you get me a badge from the Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs?’ And the president looked and he said, ‘Bud, can we get him a badge?’ And I said, ‘Well, Mr. President, if you want to get him a badge, we can do that’. He said, ‘Well, get him a badge’.

The whole article is worth a read. This is also a good time to revisit the best use of Elvis music in the last decade.