Bush, Japan’s Koizumi Bond Over Elvis
`The velvet ropes were down Friday as Priscilla and Lisa Marie Presley gave a private “family” tour of Graceland to President and Mrs. Bush and Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi. [..]
Elvis’s daughter said she “inherited from my dad” his interest in Japan – she even went to Kyoto to get married earlier this year. “I’ve been several times,” she said, and was rewarded with a hearty embrace from Koizumi as he sang the opening lines to Elvis’s “I Want You, I Need You, I Love You”: “Hold me close, hold me tight.”
The prime minister told People of the trip, “It was thrilling. It was exciting. This was a dream come true. When I think of the United States, it’s Elvis.”‘
