His paternity responsibility,
seriously?
Yes, he did.
He just couldn't publicly acknowledge
him.
How does how do you feel, Steve?
How do you feel now?
Well, then
when he first found out, how did you
feel?
I was angry.
It was like I didn't know who I was
anymore. It was like having the rug
just out from underneath you and
and there's no way for you to go to your
daddy. When I found out, you know,
you were in the company of
the president. However, as a child went.
Yes. What did you what do you recall
about that? Was it a social like?
It was mainly democratic parties
and, you know, the people
rubbing elbows and patting him on the
head and say, you're going to be a good
president. And now was just a little kid
running around. And it was
it was just kind of a normal atmosphere
for me. Did the president say anything to
you? Well, he had talked to me and,
you know, small comment.
Well, there is a report that he said he
patted you on the head and someday you're
going to be in the White House. Yes.
That was a big kid. Did you kid yourself
say it? Did you see him today?
I'm sure there was that the only time
you saw the United States touch his son
would touch him often.
And but I always felt like
it was his way of releasing his guilt,
that he was his son,
and this was the only way that he could
acknowledge and calling son
and no one else knew.
But I did.
What is this bitter and tormented?
Is it because of the war or because of
his son?
He was a complex man and he
did that tormented.
Why do you think he was torment of.
I feel this.
Is that what you think, Mr.
Ragsdale, who was also deceased?
Is that what he meant?
I think so.
We knelt together around the blanket,
Elvis appeared unsure of themselves,
what's wrong and may
I have you for my very own?
I'll never forget the way he looked at me
with eyes so gentle and loving.
The time had come to offer myself freely
to a man I loved, a man I had chosen.
I answered him with the first passionate
kiss I had ever get.
Given my sudden forwardness
frightened me for an instant.
I backed away. Don't be afraid, Elvis
whispered. I won't let anything bad
happen to you.
I won't never let anything bad
happen to you.
We lay down facing each other with our
bodies together
in a little warm is, and then
under the breath, under the bright
stars of a cool Memphis night, we
consummated our love.
It was more than just making love.
Elvis's body washed away all the shame
and dirtiness I had known before.
I remember this unhappy marriage that
she, this older man she had to marry.
He elevated me from a degraded child to a
woman who knew the ecstasy of submission.
This is a quote. Elvis said this Our love
is written on the wind in heaven, Elvis
said, as we lay on our backs looking up
at the stars. This is on a hilltop.
Do you believe this? I believe.
And.
And then then you pick up the paper, he's
marrying Priscilla.
It wasn't that that way at all.
Well, Elvis and I
fell in love and there were so
many things that transpired in
our relationship. We had to
make decisions.
I could not just go to this man
because I loved him.
I had children.
I had a dark past.
I thought today I
could handle it. And I couldn't I
couldn't just marry Elvis.
I wasn't even divorced.
So Elvis went about
his career and became famous and I
worked.
And so what
did happen is that Elvis
went upwards and I stayed
in the same vein, so to speak, raising
my children.
Then he went away to the army.
And after the last time I saw him, before
he went away, I got pregnant with
Desiree.
So the pregnancy came just prior
to his departure for the bride.
Right.
But it was while he was in the army that
the personal relationship became.
Well, yes, I think he met he met her
in Germany. And
as I detailed in the book, I
chose because something
dreadful happened.
The man that I was married to
and had filed for divorce
came back to kill me because he had heard
that I was dating Elvis,
this man he didn't know.
And then he became famous.
And then he realized that I was
serious about him and he was going to
kill him. And my children and me, in
fact, he did try to he broke my
door down and everything.
And I had to make a decision to run
or to stay there and face the
consequences. And I didn't want to stay
because I knew that Elvis would
intervene.
So I did run away and I hid for a while.
And Elvis and I even told Elvis
that hurt me more than anything.
It's not being able to tell him that I
had to be away because this man is trying
to kill me.
But Elvis did not know
about this pregnancy.
He didn't did.
After he went to the army, he came back.
Did you see him then? You continued to
see him.
In the meantime, during the time he went
to the army and he came back, I had
read that he had met someone that he fell
in love with. And I think that took the
girls away from me.
I thought, you know, I ran away from him.
I'm happy he found someone else.
And I married in that time.
In fact, I tore his birth certificate up.
I thought he'll never know about her
because he found someone else.
A moments emotions.
Yeah. When did you find out about the
trust?
Well, when I was 17, I found my
mother, she told me and
the mother actually told me in nineteen
eighty two.
You were angry, though, weren't you, that
your mother hadn't told you very much?
She told your half sisters before she
told you that, right?
I yes, she did.
She told my
my sister right over me actually knew
because she had even spoke to Elvis
several times on the phone when he
called. Yeah.
So she knew. She never did tell me.
None of my sisters actually ever told me.
This woman that my mother knew came to me
and told
me, yeah, could we just get a little
closer? Is it possible to do that on
Doosra? I want you to see this beautiful
young woman.
I want to get that opinion.
What do you think? Is this Elvis?
Yeah.
Um, are you suing
you don't want any part of
the estate or you don't think you're
entitled to. My goodness, the billions
here?
Of course I'm entitled to it, but I don't
I will never make a claim on it.
I just I really feel like
if Elvis knew about me, that I
would have you know, he would have
definitely recognized me.
Yeah. Um, now,
there's been so many people that have
taken advantage of my father that I don't
want to be one, you know, to do.
I just as you know, there
there's a Debra out there saying Elvis is
my father, too. And it might be true.
No one knows,
are you suing?
I'm not.
I am. What are you suing for?
Why is that funny?
Tell me,
why am I doing? Yeah, well, I have
every legal right to it.
Why should I not share in the profits
of my father's estate when I have
two half sisters that are having
complete run of it? So why not Luci and
Lynda? Yes, why not?
I was just as much blood in my veins as
they did.
You feel sorry for Lady Bird and family?
I don't
feel
well, I was the one
that I paid my dues, believe
me, I paid my dues.
And through the years, she had the
prestige of having his name and
money and all these things.
So I feel like I carried
the cross of having Steven.
So why should I feel sorry for her?
Well, assuming your story is true, she
carried the cheek now carries the cost of
having been the victim
of her husband who led a double life.
Well, I don't think
anything that they could say about
Lindenwood shocked the family.
He treated women like baseball cards
for all of them in back then.
Did if anybody went to school and read
about. Well, I.
A George Reedy, who is, you know, served
Lyndon Johnson as his press secretary and
knew him as well as anybody
did say he had some kind of a harem
Turkish, but they do have,
I don't know, interest in women.
It is a surprise, though, that the
only woman who surfaces in Robert
Caro's considerably
well reviewed book
on Lyndon Johnson titled The Path to
Power.
At least in the first volume, we only
hear about Alice, Claire and I
knew Alice, you did.
But Alice also was
she live with Charles March when the
newspaper tycoons and I don't
think she would have ever jeopardized her
position with Charles Marsh to
go with Lyndon Johnson.
I just I just don't think
she would have. But you don't doubt they
saw each other?
Oh, I think they may have seen
each other,
but intimately speaking.
No, I don't think that
you dismiss the chauffeur and rode out to
the to the
front. Well, I don't I don't think
that at all.
You don't want to think that Elvis was
with too many women.
I mean, in London, I'm getting my man.
That would be nice.
But is it possible that you have a kind
of a vested interest in not having
Lyndon Johnson involved
with too many other people?
I don't know what I'm asking.
Is jealousy a feature?
I mean, how do you feel about Lyndon
today?
Well, I have warm feelings.
Oh, sure. I have three of them, but
I have a certain amount of disappointment
in me and
a lot of things I wish had not happened.
I'll tell you what does baffle me a bit
here. You were raising
Elvis's child all these
years.
I assume you
never had a hit record.
I don't know.
No, I never did.
So you were at the very most middle
class?
Yes, I was a very hard worker and
still OK.
But watching all this happened
to this king,
why didn't you call him up and say, let's
have some money, honey?
Oh, Phil, Elvis was very
generous. I was.
But he didn't know we had a child.
You. No, but I had a reason for not
telling him because I'm a firm believer.
It's very hard for some people to
understand that. But I'm a firm believer
that you don't disrupt children's lives
because of two people that are in love or
feeling a certain way.
I'm sorry that you
don't have to apologize.
I think it's a wonderful position.
But how would a couple of hundred bucks
a month hurt the.
He gave me
money. He did.
Yes, he did this very generous.
I saw Elvis frequently.
I talk to him a lot.
And whenever I did see him, he
did give me money.
He didn't do it because he thought he had
to. I wouldn't accept it in my hand.
There's just something about exchange of
money. But he would put it in an envelope
and when I'd see him, it would be in my
purse.
He wanted to set up a trust fund
for me and I guess too
proud. I didn't want him to do that
because I didn't want to be a kept woman.
I loved him.
Elvis died in seventy seven.
Nancy, did you met him when you were six
years old? And so what year would that
be? Fifty seven.
Fifty three.
So you saw him from fifty three to what.
To right before he died.
Yes.
See, I was separated from Elvis for ten
years when I ran
away and I was pregnant with Desiree, I
stayed in hiding and I read that he had
met someone else and I didn't see him.
I thought I'll make my own life.
He's better off without me and less guilt
on my part because I had gone away
without telling him.
And then in sixty seven I got
a call from Elvis and
he had found out through someone at the
market, which I am a designer, that
I was he had, I had
he, she had seen me and he had been
calling and trying to find out what he
thought. You were dead from dead.
He thought I was dead for a long time.
And so he asked me to please see
him. He wanted to explain some things and
he wanted to find out some things for me.
And that reluctantly, I did see him
in Beverly Hills.
Uh, I explained why I had
to run away and why he got married, why
I never told him he had you had a child.
He came so close.
But I didn't want to.
I didn't want to because I knew
that I have something to tell you that's
going to make you feel good. And he said,
I hope it's true that.
Right.
The last time I spoke to
him, he said, I hope what you want to
tell me.
I hope what I'm thinking is true.
What do you think he was thinking?
Well, he knew her name was Desiree and he
only called me Desiree because and
we talked about children, you know, long
time ago. And I think he knew
that I had a daughter
by him.
I thought, well, we're going to let
this audience talk to you here in
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Are you sorry
we drifted
apart last year?
Yes, I wanted to ask Lucy,
why did you wait till Desirably was 17
before you told her and why
then did you just why then did you decide
to tell her at that time?
Yeah, I was asking me.
I waited because I
wanted to tell others first, and
then I never wanted to tell him after
he died, she told me actually
when I was 17, a friend of hers had told
me why.
All of a sudden you said that you didn't
want to tell Elvis that he was her
father because it would be destructive to
your child's life.
Why? How do you figure giving your
child your father and giving a father his
daughter is destructive?
I don't understand how well I had other
children, too, and they had a very normal
life. And Elvis was a monumental star
and it wouldn't have been just a normal
life had it come out.
I have a question for Desiree.
I know my kids can't keep a secret for
ten seconds. And you said you civil you
have sisters and brothers.
Didn't tell you I.
I can't.
Well, you said they didn't at that time.
They didn't. And you and I know
about it before you when I was seventeen,
this woman that had told me, I
had told me and then I had sort of dated
my younger sister and I said, you know,
my father always she said, Who told you?
And I told her.
And she said, Well, don't tell anybody
because she'll think I told you.
So, you know, we kept it all quiet.
And even when I found out, I didn't go to
mother and tell her that I knew I
did, I couldn't do that.
I was wondering if Mrs.
Brown didn't think that Lady Bird also
paid lots of dues
during her lifetime.
I didn't hear the question.
Didn't didn't Lady
Bird pay lots of dues during her
life?
Yes, she did.
Yes, she did. So if I'm understanding
you, then your comment
about her appeared to be somewhat this
missing.
And I don't know whether you intended it
to be.
You don't think she's necessarily.
Should be the object of any particular.
She's a lady. No, I don't think that
anyone should say anything about her.
No.
Uh huh.
But you think in terms of the
relationship with Linden, you had a
lot tougher than she did, right?
That was what I'd like for you to
believe.
Yeah.
What's up with him?
What's the matter?
You know, I'm just thinking of something,
if you're not looking for money, Miss
Presley business,
if you're not looking for money and
everything, why are you bringing this
out now to the public eye?
Why are you sitting here
if you're not looking for anything?
Well, number one, because I
like I said, it is my name.
And that's what I wanted from my mother
was the story.
Everybody needs to know where they came
from and what their background is.
Everybody knows.
And well,
why do you have to wait so long?
I mean, you're a grown girl now.
Why don't you come on. You're getting me
very upset.
Here's what I wanted to say.
Why now when you don't want anything
out of this relationship from Elvis
Presley except the fact that you as
a woman know that your father
was Elvis Presley?
That's what you have to know.
We're happy because when I was 19,
my my name on my birth certificate is
Presley. Mother did give me my name.
I didn't know that until I was nineteen
and got my birth certificate and I
started using that name Presley.
And everywhere I was born, I
was, you know, being concerned.
Are you related to Elvis?
And I would say yes, but I didn't know
the facts and it was awkward.
So instead of going through my life
defending myself, which I would
have to do and continue to do, now,
the story stories out and people know and
they can make their own opinion.
I know who I am.
Here's the birth certificate about which
you spoke.
Yeah, but who cares?
Except you.
Well, I don't care that everybody knows.
Hey, I'm Elsie.
Hey, I like you.
I don't care. Why do
you care? Can I just try here for a
second
while this is not
a bad story, if you don't mind my saying.
And as a person who has not only written
but even sold a book in public,
I think that's legal.
And I don't think necessarily that makes
them awful people.
I'm not saying they're awful, but the
point to answer your question is a lot of
people care. I mean, this is a 20th
century entertainment figure, and this,
it is claimed, is one of
his undeclared children until
this year. So it might be.
There might be.
You never know. Yeah.
What do
either of you think that there are other
illegitimate children who might start
popping
up that we've already established that
Deborah met you, I believe, outside a
television station and said I'm his
father. I'm his daughter, too.
And the encounter was brief.
And you have not seen
no one
has have time
to think if he was.
So
when did he have time to sing?
Well, I mean, I don't know.
The guy had his own plane, you know.
Yeah, I'm still not clear
about that.
You still not clear.
Let's say you say you were defending
your other children, but they knew.
So why didn't why not just tell her
I'm sorry, not tell they were wrong.
They didn't know I had one
very assertive child.
And he said always try to find out things
that she shouldn't, but she guessed.
But I never came out and told a tale.
That's really what's grown.
And I want to know, as both of you ladies
chose to sleep with prominent
figures, I mean, you made that decision,
right? And neither one of you took
any precautions not to become pregnant or
not to have background.
Well, with the
children, with people.
This was the fifties. That should be
prefill, wouldn't it?
Yeah, but I mean, there were other
precautions. Yeah.
I just I'm just curious
why you made that decision.
You chose to sleep with them
anyway.
Yes. Yeah.
So, you
know. Well they're not.
I don't know. You can't you're not here
to complain, right.
No this is absolutely no.
You here to set the record straight.
Yes. What's the matter.
Have they ever has had they ever
have you know, have you ever heard
from the children,
Johnson children.
Have we heard from.
Yes. No, no, no.
We have no comment coming from
the Johnsons.
Are you there, caller?
Go ahead. Thanks for waiting.
Yes, I am. I'd like to ask a question to.
Yeah. Has he ever considered having a
blood test to prove that he is actually
Elvis, his daughter? Yes, I have had the
blood test positive.
Now, we should say that a blood test
makes Elvis a candidate for eternity
does not necessarily absolutely prove
that he is. You have a more important
piece of evidence, and that is the poem.
Isn't that so?
Tell me about that poem briefly.
Yes, I know Elvis wrote this beautiful
poem to me because he knew I didn't like
a lot of material things.
Then he sent it to me with some money for
a gift one Christmas, and
I had kept it secret and didn't want it
revealed. But then I finally decided,
yes, I would reveal it so the fans could
see it. And Grayson said, don't do it
because we own it.
Our claim they own it.
Then we had it authenticated by five
different people,
including Charles Hamilton,
including Charles
is on record as saying this is
Elvis's handwriting.
And yes, they did.
And he did and several others.
And it contradicted a lot of
things that the Elvis associates are
saying that I never saw Elvis and he
never knew. And all this stuff, but yes,
I didn't know him and yes, I do have a.
Well, we certainly shouldn't be surprised
that the state is going to be somewhat
defensive when it comes to paternity
claim.
But but we're not claiming
anything from them.
You know, Phil, we're not one
that has this audience baffled.
Well, I do not want to I could have
had the money if that's what I wanted.
I really did not want that.
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Oh, my
lord, please.
You called him out and you think, well,
this is like a nickname, code name.
It was it was a pet name, really.
Right.
Your story is in this book titled Are You
Lonesome Tonight, The Untold Story of
Elvis Presley's One True Love and the
Child He Never Knew.
And Steve, as we have established, just
learned earlier, earlier this year that
Lyndon Baines Johnson
was his father.
Uh, you found something in the safe
which confirmed.
What was that?
Well, the first thing when I went home
from the hospital and mother had given me
the combination to the safe.
Yeah. And the first thing I pulled out
of the safe was that letter and
then just started and I just started
laughing. Ragsdale the attorney.
Yeah. The money to your mother would
continue, even though Lyndon had died,
incidentally, at discontinued about two
years later then, didn't it.
Yeah.
What determined the discontinuance?
Well, Lyndon had died and
then Mr. Kelam died.
And then a year or maybe less
than a year, Mr. Ragsdale died.
But it was a theory, right?
You are trysts with Lyndon.
Never lasted more than about an hour,
did they,
along or about three, I think
you said three was the longest run,
but that wasn't the usual length of time
for most of them. All his
time. It didn't we didn't have a lot
of time.
They did.
Yeah, I did.
And how many times did you see the
president, Lyndon Johnson, while he was
president?
Any time he was in office and I
saw Lyndon.
It was when he was in office.
And it was a Texas romance.
Right? A Texas romance.
What does that mean?
Well, it means that I met him and Texas
started
in Texas and say,
look, you know, if I can't ask questions,
I can't learn anything.
And you do make the point
that on the occasion of his last your
last meeting with him, you opened the
door to the hotel room and he looked
awful. He did.
He was happy.
I think he was smoking, too, toward the
end of his life. Right.
And apparently he was I don't know
whether he was drinking.
He did
some some.
And the Secret Service was just back up
in the hallway.
They just they acknowledged me,
but they didn't talk to me.
I mean, you know, they knew what was
going on. Sure.
What do you think?
Well, uh, referring to the other
lady, I'm trying to understand your
reasoning and being a woman.
I honestly can't.
And I don't understand.
Tell me what what's going on.
Because he was a very famous man.
She could have done everything for her
children, for all of them.
And money is a big thing when you're
bringing up children.
And I just understand I don't understand
how she passed up.
First of all, I had a stepfather that is
a very good father and still is a very
good father to me.
And for years I thought he was my father.
And money is not the most important
thing.
Getting back to President
Johnson, you met him in
nineteen forty eight, between nineteen
forty eight in the time that he died.
Did you have any meetings at all with
Mrs. Johnson.
Did she. I met her socially when, when
we were in meetings.
I mean and social if I would there
with
the other woman. She didn't know that you
were the other woman.
No one.
I wonder if Desiree has had any contact
with Priscilla or Lisa.
No, I haven't. But I would like very much
to meet these steps, I hope.
And Sir Desiree,
I have heard that you had had plastic
surgery, and I was wondering if
Elvis's pictures had any influence on
what you did.
The picture in the book that I
I was in a car accident and yes, I did
have my nose repaired.
But there is a picture in the book for
my surgery, and I look more like my
father than I did.
I hear you look more like your father
at age 17. You think?
Yes.
I mean, get this one right.
Right here.
Yeah.
What do you think?
There you are at seventeen.
Is that Elvis Presley's daughter?
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I want to know what's the point of
ripping up the birth certificate?
I don't understand.
Oh, because I had an emotional
state at that time because I thought
he had met someone else and fell in love
with someone else.
And it's just a woman's heart.
I just thought, I'll never tell him now
that he's found someone else.
Are you there, caller? Go ahead.
Yes, ma'am. Hi, Phil..
I just want to tell you, I'm one young
Republican who really does like you
know,
I
don't agree with anything you say.
But anyhow, I have a question
for Steve.
It seems that he is right around
the age of most of the Vietnam veterans
who are in my family.
And I want to ask him, number one,
what do you thought of the war?
And and
also I want to ask him what he thought of
his father's legacy as the president.
Many people don't look at it very fondly.
And I just want to make a comment.
Hang on just a second, brother.
Steve, you understand the question?
I'm sure I've heard the part about the
Vietnam War that I think about it.
And do you feel it ruined
your father's public life there?
My personal feelings about the Vietnam
War is I think it will be a
blot on our country's history forever.
Now, not do not detract from the men
in the photo there. I know, but they were
very patriotic that that was
a fine thing for them to do, but
to to fight for something like that over
there and then just turn around and
abandon it after losing all those
thousands and thousands of lives and
billions of dollars in our country.
Stephen, I guess I sense another anger,
though, in you, and I want to make sure I
understand it.
I assume you feel your anger.
You must have had a little bit of a
healing to do with your mom.
Oh, yes, I had a.
I had a real rough time with it for a
while. Yes. Tell me what it was that
really upset you?
The fact that she'd keep this from me?
Well, I mean, it's the first year.
I mean, how could she have done this to
me? And, you know, all of my
life, me not telling you about not
telling me. Yes. How could she have done
that? You bring no moral judgment to
this. No, no, no.
Not now. Of course, at the time, I had a
lot of moral judgments against her and
I said some very harsh things to my
mother, which I'm sorry that I said.
But at the time I meant them.
I mean, I was very I was
full of rage.
Rage that what.
Well, how could you do me this long?
Yeah. Yeah.
I mean, here was
I'm not who I thought I was.
And it just, you know, I wanted I did
smash things. I went into the living room
and I picked up one of my mother's
priceless antique both and smashed it
up against the wall.
And then that kind of brought me to
because I've been insured.
So and
then I thought, my God, what is my mother
going to do to me? And then then I just
I sat down and cried and I
cried and I cried.
And I watched it all the way
home. And then I got up and went
back to the hospital.
Talk to Earth and more.
I went back and cried some more and talk
to her, and you were thinking she was
going to die, too. I mean, this is part
of this. I thought she was dying.
Yeah. You, as a matter of fact, have
lymphatic cancers that.
So I'm in remission.
It's in remission. Yes.
But one of the reasons for your interest
in your own heritage has to do with
that, you know, genetic information.
My grandmother, Johnson, died from it.
Same variety.
LBJ's mother.
Yeah.
Yeah, this
is the summer of Elvis.
It's his special summer,
it seems to me an interesting fact that
this news comes out this particular
summer. The book is written this
particular summer.
For someone who is not interested
in money, you're certainly going to gain
from this.
Well, thank you for that comment.
I wrote the book in eighty four,
I still hated to go through
with it. I mean, you can ask my
publisher, my co-writer.
I still didn't want to do it, but I
didn't hold it till this year.
It wasn't my choice.
They had other projects
as, uh, Mrs. Brown going to write a book?
Yes, it's that
I have written a book.
It will be out in the spring.
And let me tell you, if you want some
good read about it, I read some of
them.
Your relationship with Lyndon
Johnson was you tell us
almost exclusively physical was right.
Right.
How about presence?
I had a lovely day.
I had new automobiles.
I had lovely
Joe. Did you get a mink coat?
I got a mink coat,
two or three.
And on the last meeting when you spent
two hours with him, it was probably the
only meeting you had with Lyndon Johnson
that had no intimate expression as part
of it. That's right.
I had asked him he was no longer
in office. And I told him that he could
acknowledge seven.
He'd known about Stephen from time
I got pregnant and he wouldn't do it.
He he said he felt like he would
go down in history as a good president
and it would bloddy.
Did you ever say, Lyndon, do you
love me?
Oh, he told me off and he loved
them someday.
You and me, Lyndon,
someday you and
me. When did you just talk about that and
what he said someday?
What's this line about today?
Said he'd always come back.
The day is today and tomorrow is
tomorrow.
Now, a guy who says that often enough
can drive you crazy.
Race today. Tomorrow.
Where does the name Mrs. Brown come from?
And Stephen, do you use Brown?
And that is my first marriage.
I have a question
for Steve and his mother.
Does the Johnson family know about
your claim? And if so, have they
responded to your claims?
Oh, let me tell you, they know about it
and they have their responses is no
comment.
Are you there, caller? Go ahead,
caller. There.
Yes, go ahead, please.
I believe that the book coming up, where
are we going to
get married.
Why.
I see. Have a problem on the show.
Why do you say that?
Please make your point.
I have no rights, no claim to anything,
whether I'm married and
I don't have any rights or anything
at all, I
wanted a price, I paid a price.
They brought me back
home.
But
I don't want to talk to her.
Hang on. Elsie's back in this.
I just want to say I think you're
great to come up and bring it up, all
this stuff out, it's like a backstreet
romance, you know, and it
it can happen in life,
I think.
Thank you. What raise that
father.
Think of this. How does your step father,
the one you love, who raised you?
He's very supportive.
Said I have a right to do it and I just
have a comment. Yes, go ahead.
I have a comment.
I wouldn't want to be sitting up there
telling a national television
that I was the other woman.
No problem.
It's not a problem, you know.
Yeah, I've got it.
I've got to get out of here.
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Oh,
you want to see a picture of Madeleine
the year she met LBJ?
I'll show you one.
There she is.
I'm sorry I'm late.
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All right.
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Yes, ma'am. The samples.
Yes, I.
I think that you if while the claims
are true, I really think that she has
tried to live. It does raise mother her
life with dignity.
If these claims are true.
And the other you know, on the other side
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greedy, is not to be believed.
Not to be believed.
Yeah, thanks.
It's funny. This is brought out after
both fathers are dead.
Thank you, Mr. Donahue.
I wondered how the children feel about
suddenly having their private lives
exploded, you know, their mothers,
promoting them and putting them into the
public view, how they feel if they feel a
little resentment toward not promoting
the I'm the one that got my mother to do
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for her.
And my mother wouldn't have done it if I
jumped in and filed the lawsuit either.
Yeah, I was
wondering if Mrs. Brown had any other
children.
I have an older son.
Stephen, how long and hard do you plan
to fight? I mean, you get a pass to
start, your
children and grandchildren fight until I
win. Yes.
Did Elvis have the drug problems that the
president ought to have?
I'm sorry, I didn't.
Did Elvis have the drug problems painted
by the press?
Oh, no, no, not not like it
was medication addiction.
It really was. And it was drug related.
Of course, this is for Steve.
I was wondering who he thought his father
was when he was growing up and what's
happened to that relationship.
The attorney that handled all of the
things was the man who showed up at my
church school for the father son baseball
teams. He was the one that gave the
money. So naturally, I thought he was my
father. This was Jesse or Director
Ragsdale Greg, although I knew that there
was something odd for all of those years
because he was so cold about it.
He didn't hug you like other.
He did not hug me. No.
So he was the surrogate on
campus at hand.
Father doing
playing the role of father at LBJ's
behest. Yes.
That's got to be in there, in there, too,
that's part of your rage, is it?
Yeah.
You're mad at.
Lyndon Johnson, I'm just mad
through him, but
I've learned to control it, I've learned.
I noticed your mom kind of patting on
their arm because she knows that when I
lose my temper, I say things that
I shouldn't.
Are you there, caller? Go ahead.
I'm in the TV industry.
I work in Hollywood, California, and
you always hear some kind of gossip, some
kind of rumor and sleeping with you.
And I sent you a letter by going to a
restaurant. You see that with someone
like that, right?
I can't believe that nobody has seen
Desiree or her mother without that.
Nobody can potentially that nobody got
him in a restaurant. Nobody saw them
together. So anybody that loves
you that much.
Let's get Lucianne.
All right. OK, how do you keep this a
secret?
It was very hard to keep it a secret, but
that it had to be a secret film and it
was a difficult thing to do.
But what
if what
if he suspected, you know, towards the
end, that last line that you said that he
suspected? I hope what you're saying is
true. How come?
You know, it just had to be inspected?
He must have suspected for a period of
time.
No, he knew we were together intimately.
And the name desperateness just rang a
bell to him.
My question to Lucy, how did you register
your child in school? Because I know you
have to bring your birth certificate.
And if it has Presley on the birth
certificate, how did you know?
I always put my married name, Greer on
there.
But in the birth certificate, it said,
Presley, can you get in school?
By my step, I had my step in my step
father since I was kid.
But you have to bring your
own crazy here.
Every time I use my baptism
certificate for
Hezbollah,
it seems that his memory is very
important. And it seems if you have a
great love for him, you would want to
respect his memory and keep these
illegitimate child whatever out of
the public eye.
Right?
I have. Where have been bystanders?
Why not?
Yeah, well, the account of my mother's
book is very good about Elvis.
I think it really portrays in a real way
he was right.
Can you sing and
sing?
Sing. Not a word, no.
I like to know who's listed in Steve's
father on his birth certificate.
Brian, my brother by the name
Mr. Brown.
Yeah.
Oh, that is right.
How old is Desiree?
Twenty nine.
Yeah. How much is he doing for how
much you're suing for Steven.
Ten point five million.
That's just punitive damages
and all of it.
I would like to know what Desiree does
for a living modeling,
and I'm into real estate as well.
Are you going to deduct the living
expenses that he supported you when
you're growing up from that two point
five million?
No, that doesn't count, huh?
No, it does not know.
It does.
Are you there, caller?
Go ahead.
Yes, I am going to say
that I read Lucy Department book,
and I feel that she must be a very strong
woman. I admire her for protecting
of and his reputation and her family
for what she thought would be a certain
scandal. And I really wish her
the best no matter what anyone else
thinks.
Steve, what do you
what do you do for a living, Steve?
Pardon? What do you do?
I manage our family's property.
You manage the property and I can
consult.
I keep myself busy.
I can tell you, you know, put
that hat on again.
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There are a lot of there's a lot of
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