This captain was sitting behind the desk. Elvis said, "I need an emergency leave, sir, my mother is dying." And the captain said, "is she actually dead yet?" Elvis stopped, and his jaw tightened up, and he said, "I want you to understand who I am and what I'm getting ready to do." He said, "my name is Elvis presley. I sell a lot of records, and I'm a star." He said, "I've played your little army games. I've shot your guns, and I've rolled in your tanks. But that's my mother."
He said, "If I don't get a pass in my hand in the next five minutes, you can stick all this stuff up your ass. I'm going AWOL, and it's not going to look good for you when I call a press conference and say, 'the reason I went AWOL is because they wouldn't give me emergency leave to see my mother.' Now, how does that grab you?"
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Elvis And The Memphis Mafia By Alanna Nash
Non-FictionA monumental oral biography filled with raucous joy, aching loss and terrible poignancy, Elvis and the memphis mafia is the first book to capture the king - the man and the phenomenon- in his full complexity.
