Bush takes Koizumi for Tour of Graceland

It was a thing to his friend, Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi, to visit Memphis, which is now the nation’s most tourist town. But the president has drawn a line Friday, though wavy hair leader of the Japanese market, began crooning Elvis songs.

“Love Me Tender”, M. Koizumi has sung in a deep baritone that the hole just an approximation of the king, when the king was in Tokyo. Before the fall of stone in the jungle in space Graceland, with the lawyer shag carpet on both feet on the ground and the ceiling, Bush laughed, but not participating

Any property. The image of President combat politically deplore his own Heartbreak Hotel have left all shook up his advisers It was a day of friendship, rock-and-roll and bad puns, as Bush attack, which itself as “an unusual experience,” While perhaps the pleasure diplomatic memorable of his presidency.

As a farewell gift Koizumi, one of his best friends overseas and a longstanding fan of Elvis, his last visit before retiring U.S. September, Bush held a special trip into the villa where the legendary singer lived and died. Mecca fans closure usual tourists themselves, for the first time since opening in 1982, he played as a host its first meeting of Presidents. Priscilla and Lisa Marie Presley stole was for the occasion.

If the Chairman Statement Under glued to the good mood, Mr. Koizumi has collapsed in the spirit of the occasion for armed robbery in cameras-Elvis sunglasses, belting some of his favorite Lyrics, serenading Lisa Marie and imitates his father, even the famous stage moves. The Prime Minister, released as soon as his favorite CD of Elvis songs, gleefully extract concert extravagant costumes and the pink Cadillac on the lawn and wall to wall of gold records.

“My dream has become reality,” said Koizumi to sing a few words of “The Impossible Dream” To this point.

While they were in the city, President and the Prime Minister also visited another milestone, the National Civil Rights Museum next to the motel where Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated. It was such a burden minute addition to the trip, the White House guide for citizens’ rights by Benjamin hook at the dentist’s office on Friday morning to ask him to show visitors around.

The fact that Bush would have time to Graceland testament to the strength of his personal ties with Mr. Koizumi first forged on the ground at Camp David in 2001, she played as the stories start exchanges and baseball preferred talked about films such as “High Noon.”

Bush is at best an accidental tourist. He once stopped by the Kremlin in Moscow, in the cathedrals of seven minutes flat, the vast Hermitage in St. Petersburg in half an hour and turned soon go to the arrival of the Great Wall of China . It was an invitation to visit the Taj Mahal as a whole, while India, the rate of lack of time.

But he managed to cut eight-hour flight here from Washington, followed by a crowd of media such as rarely on track, say a speech in Missouri Medicare. More than 300 journalists, was shown, indeed, and a press room was set up in the car, Elvis Presley, with its museum purple Cadillac Eldorado convertible 1956, MG 1960 in “Blue Hawaii” and rest of its fleet. Journalists to tourists under the giant disco ball, as if it were another briefing.

Everyone is trying to put into action. Air Force One Team “Love Me Tender” and “Do not be cruel” on the intercom system as president, Laura Bush and Koizumi on board. Elvis movies were designed for display during the flight to Memphis. For lunch, the favorite King’s-fried peanut butter, banana sandwiches, with 36 grams of fat per piece, were served on the plane. Bush and Koizumi politely passed, although Chief of Staff of the White House Joshua B. Bolten, there was an attempt, reports, according to his regret.

If Bush and Koizumi were to Graceland, a team of young activists from the International Fund for Animal Welfare in the vicinity gathered to protest policy on whaling Japan, with four Elvis impersonators up characters such as “Do am not cruel. ”

But nothing would ruin Koizumi’s day, who came with the surrender of an Elvis-vintage posters. It examines three televisions incorporated into the walls of the basement yellow-blue entertainment room with the ceiling mirror. It was shown in the pool table, billiard room festooned than 350 yards of multicolored fabric for the walls and ceiling. He and Mr. Bush, which represents a spokesman for Graceland “private time” in the Meditation Garden, where Elvis and his parents are buried next to an eternal flame.

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