Why bother to paint both sides? Just present the side you want to show. The other remained in its dilapidated state. Elvis had paid $55,000 for the thing, but the Colonel, snowman to the core, apparently had only had one side of the old yacht painted-the side that faced the dock. As the press cameras clicked away, and the freshly painted Potomac gleamed in the background, the Colonel chuckled to himself. He graciously accepted the “piece of shit,” as Thomas is said to have called the boat, to sell for cash. Jude, the Memphis research hospital Thomas had founded to help find cures for catastrophic childhood diseases. With them was actor Danny Thomas, there on behalf of St. On February 14, 1964, five days after the Beatles made their debut on The Ed Sullivan Show, Elvis sat at a press conference with the Colonel on the pier at Long Beach, California. feather in the cap of his only client: Elvis Presley. He would donate the rusting hulk to charity and put a P.R.
He saw the Potomac as just another snow job, as he called his art of the con. Some called it his “Floating White House.” But Parker, who was born in Holland in 1909 as Andreas Cornelis van Kuijk and never became an American citizen, didn’t care about that. In 1963, Colonel Tom Parker, Elvis Presley’s audacious manager who had gotten his start selling candy apples in carnivals, read in the paper that Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s presidential yacht, the U.S.S.
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