Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Elvis-Meets-Nixon

Elvis-Meets-Nixon

**Original** - Entertainer Elvis Presley meets U.S. President Richard Nixon in the Oval Office on December 21, 1970. On that morning, Presley personally delivered a hand-written letter to a security guard at the White House, requesting a meeting with President Nixon and indicating his desire to gain the credentials of a federal agent in the war on drugs. A few hours later, Presley met with the President in the Oval Office. The photo of the meeting, which was not released until the following year [1], is the most-requested image in the National Archives.

Reason: Well-known historical photo of two of the greatest recording artists of the 20th century. There's actually a remarkable story [2] beyond the meeting that was photographed, and that story is the subject of a film that has its own WP article. The photo is also, apparently, the most-requested image in the National Archives. It's also featured [3] on the Turkish wikipedia.
Articles this image appears in: Elvis Presley, Richard Nixon, Elvis Meets Nixon, etc.
Creator: Ollie Atkins (White House photographer; yes it's PD)

Support as nominator --Spikebrennan (talk) 16:23, 14 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Support High enc and public interest, in excellent condition.--HereToHelp ^{(talk to me)} 22:09, 14 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Support per nom. Cacophony (talk) 06:42, 15 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Support Great composition and encyclopedic value Thisglad (talk) 12:45, 15 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose The picture is staged shot, but too blurry and something looks missing and I am not persuaded by the nom.--Caspian blue 15:09, 15 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Support Diego_pmc ^Talk 20:00, 15 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose as per my comments at the PPR nom. I find this an interesting photo, but highly question the EV. I can see no suggestion anywhere that this had any impact on the careers or lives of either Nixon or Presley. I've looked at the info linked to at the US archives, and it reads as though this had little impact beyond Nixon thinking Presley a bit of a nut. The WP article about the film is not particularly well written and fails to point out that it's a mockumentary (see here). I don't think it's a good enough photo of either of them alone to be featured as illustrative of them as individuals. So, in other words, it seems to be a brief meeting of two otherwise famous people, making it a nice interesting trivial 'celeb' photo, but not particularly encyclopaedic. --jjron (talk) 12:51, 17 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose per Jjron. Calliopejen1 (talk) 16:03, 17 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

No consensus MER-C 03:39, 24 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]