Roanoke Times
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DATE: THURSDAY, January 7, 1993 TAG: 9301070229
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PEOPLE
Richard Nixon's presidential library in Yorba Linda, Calif., will offer free admission this weekend to honor the birthdays of Nixon and Elvis Presley.Photographs of the 1970 White House meeting between Nixon and Presley are big sellers at the gift shop, appearing on T-shirts and the face of a wristwatch.
The library's $4.95 admission will be waived Friday, which would have been Presley's 58th birthday, and Saturday, Nixon's 80th birthday, and again Sunday.
On a videotape played for visitors, Nixon describes his meeting with The King:
"Well, he was very flamboyant. My daughters knew him and heard him. I didn't know that much about him except what I read. But as I talked to him, I sensed that basically he's a very shy man.
"Flamboyancy was covering up the shyness. He was also a very sincere man. He wanted to be an example to young people."
Civil rights activist Al Sharpton accepted a plea bargain on tax evasion charges Tuesday in Albany, N.Y., agreeing to pay a $5,000 fine in return for the state's dropping felony charges against him.
Sharpton, who pleaded guilty to not filing state income taxes in 1986, also agreed to pay his back taxes. The self-described "poor ghetto preacher" said he would hold a fund-raiser to pay the fine. He said he didn't know how much he would owe in taxes.