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254 “They tried to get me clearance”: Lamar Fike, quoted in Nash, Alanna, with Smith, Billy, Lacker, Marty, and Fike, Lamar, Elvis Aaron Presley: Revelations from the Memphis Mafia.
254 “When you come in my house”: William Norwood, quoted in “Viva Fort Hood,” by Michael Hall, Texas Monthly, December 2000.
255 “When he got her on the line”: Eddie Fadal, quoted in “Viva Fort Hood,” by Michael Hall, Texas Monthly, December 2000.
255 “He would come over”: “Interview with Anita Wood,” on the Web site Elvis Australia, November 25, 2006.
255 “He put his foot”: Eddie Fadal, quoted in Clayton, Rose, and Heard, Dick, Elvis Up Close.
255 “My father knew all the doctors”: Janice Fadal, quoted in “Viva Fort Hood,” by Michael Hall, Texas Monthly, December 2000.
256 “I wish they’d let me pick it”: Elvis Presley on home recordings, quoted in Osborne, Jerry. Elvis Word for Word.
256 “It was the greatest time”: “Interview with Anita Wood,” on the Web site Elvis Australia, November 25, 2006.
256 “Simple, I’m kinda proud of it”: “Viva Fort Hood,” by Michael Hall, Texas Monthly, December 2000.
256 “It was in the hot summertime”: “Interview with Anita Wood,” on the Web site Elvis Australia, November 25, 2006.
257 “He’s working us to death”: “Viva Fort Hood,” by Michael Hall, Texas Monthly, December 2000.
257 “He loved the Army”: Rex Mansfield, quoted in “Viva Fort Hood,” by Michael Hall, Texas Monthly, December 2000.
257 “One day I looked at her”: Lamar Fike to author, 1994.
257 “She didn’t want to go,” Ibid.
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259 “We were in the room talking”: Dotty Ayers, as quoted in Clayton, Rose, and Heard, Dick, Elvis Up Close.
260 “Mama”: Billy Smith quoting Elvis Presley to author, 1994.
260 “I don’t think Elvis”: Billy Smith to author, 1994. The remaining quotes from Billy Smith in this chapter come from conversations with the author, 1994, or from Nash, Alanna, with Smith, Billy, Lacker, Marty, and Fike, Lamar, Elvis Aaron Presley: Revelations from the Memphis Mafia.
260 “They drained”: Lamar Fike to author, 1994.
262 “We shot over there”: Ibid.
262 “Eddie”: “Elvis and Eddie: A Special Friendship,” Elvis International Forum magazine, vol. 2, no. 2, 1990.
263 “He was in pitiful shape”: Harold Loyd, as quoted in Clayton, Rose, and Heard, Dick, Elvis Up Close.
263 “liked they wanted”: “Elvis and Eddie: A Special Friendship,” Elvis International Forum magazine, vol. 3, no. 3, 1990.
263 “Mama”: Eddie Fadal, as quoted in Clayton, Rose, and Heard, Dick, Elvis Up Close.
263 “Little! Little! Little!” “Interview with Anita Wood,” on the Web site Elvis Australia, November 25, 2006.
263 “We went in there”: Anita Wood to author, 2009.
264 “He reacted”: Dixie Locke to Peter O. Whitmer, raw interview transcript, 1994.
264 “Get all of these people out of here!” Barbara Pittman quoting Colonel Tom Parker in Clayton, Rose, and Heard, Dick, Elvis Up Close.
264 “Please don’t take my baby away!” Harold Loyd, as quoted in Clayton, Rose, and Heard, Dick, Elvis Up Close.
264 “He said, ‘Everything I have is gone’ ”: Ibid.
264 “When the funeral director”: Freddy Bienstock to author, 1997
265 “I’ve never seen”: J. D. Sumner to Peter O. Whitmer, raw interview transcript, 1994.
265 “He put his arms around me”: James Blackwood, quoted in Burk, Bill E., Early Elvis: The Humes Years.
265 “Mama . . . I would give every dime”: James Blackwood quoting Elvis Presley in Clayton, Rose, and Heard, Dick, Elvis Up Close.
265 “Good-bye, darling, good-bye”: Elvis Presley, quoted in Guralnick, Peter, and Jorgensen, Ernst, Elvis Day by Day: The Definitive Record of His Life and Music.
266 “They were holding him back”: Barbara Pittman, quoted in Clayton, Rose, and Heard, Dick, Elvis Up Close.
266 “He was in a trance”: e-mail, Barbara Hearn to author, 2009.
266 “I just wrote my heart”: Mae Boren Axton, public appearance at Memphis State University, 1986.
266 “I can’t go”: Lillian Smith Fortenberry, raw interview transcript, Mississippi Room Collection, Lee County Library
266 “He walked around”: Arlene Cogan, quoted in Clayton, Rose,