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Transcription: {SPEAKER name="Warren Perry"}
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That's respect. [[laughter]]

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One of the, one of the interesting rooms that you see in Graceland, within the trophy room,

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is the room dedicated to Elvis' charitable contributions.

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We all talk about Elvis and you hear the wild stories— the stories of the late nights,

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staying up with his buddies in Memphis playing football on the lawn, or flying to Denver to get a fried peanut butter and banana sandwich.

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All the wild stories about him shooting out a television set because he didn't like Robert Goulet. [[laughter]] Damn.

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One of the most interesting things about Elvis was—

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{SPEAKER name="Audience Member"}
He was nocturnal, right?

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{SPEAKER name="Warren Perry"}
Oh, very much. He slept well into the day and then he performed in the evening or stayed up with his friends playing--

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He had a racket ball court built behind Graceland so they'd go outside- and inside the racket ball court, actually, there's a piano and there's a little snack bar and everything.

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So, he had his own place away from the house if anybody wanted to sleep he had his own- his own play land inside Graceland.

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The uh- sorry, what was I-

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Charity. Charity. [[laughter]]

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Every year at Christmas time, he would sit down, and write out checks to 50 charities in Memphis, Tennessee.

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He'd write out a thousand dollar check to each of them.

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And send them all. So $50,000 every year.

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He never claimed it on his taxes. He said if you get something back from it, then it's really not like charity at all, is it?

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Routinely, when he found out friends had- or family members had money problems, he'd pay their house notes, he'd pay their bills, he'd--

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He was notorious for showing up on car lots in Memphis and buying cars for people he'd see wandering around.

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Notorious? Would you say notorious? He was famous for that.

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One Cadillac salesman in Memphis gave him an award for being the greatest purchaser of Cadillacs of all time.

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And there's stories about how he went in one day and bought 14 Cadillacs and gave the keys to each to a friend of his.

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I don't know if anybody knows this, but this is a pretty interesting thing:

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Elvis is closely tied to the USS Arizona Memorial at Pearl Harbor. Anybody heard this story?
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