All Ottawa was abuzz with excitement on this date in 1957 with the arrival of the already legendary Elvis in the city. The King was there to perform two concerts.  In the Senate, Liberal Senator David Croll even promised to wrap up his speech on foreign policy relatively quickly. Croll said he would do this “so that members of this House may … see and hear a character called Elvis Presley who will be holding forth at the Auditorium.”According to a fun and informative article prepared by Senate staff in 2017, not all Senators were as enamoured with Elvis as Senator Croll.“In 1957, even the Senate was abuzz with Elvis talk,” Senatorial staff wrote. “On January 23, 1957, Senator William Ross Macdonald, the Leader of the Government in the Senate, said he wasn’t ‘worried’ about Presley’s popularity. ‘Others get a kick out of Elvis Presley,’ said Macdonald, dismissing him as ‘a passing phase’ and urging the government to ‘feed the souls of men’ with the music of Beethoven and Dvorak instead.‘I never realized that I was so far out of date until I saw this artist on a CBC television production. Heaven help us if that is the way our generation is going,’ Macdonald said.”  You can read the entire Senate article here.Elvis was interviewed by Mac Lipson of Ottawa's CKOY radio backstage of Ottawa's Auditorium on April 3rd, 1957.  Click here to listen to this interview of a 22 year-old Elvis.[caption id="attachment_611056" align="alignleft" width="589"] Elvis performs in the Ottawa Auditorium, 1957[/caption]Arthur Milnes is an accomplished public historian and award-winning journalist.  He was research assistant on The Rt. Hon. Brian Mulroney’s best-selling Memoirs and also served as a speechwriter to then-Prime Minister Stephen Harper and as a Fellow of the Queen’s Centre for the Study of Democracy under the leadership of Tom Axworthy.  A resident of Kingston, Ontario, Milnes serves as the in-house historian at the 175 year-old Frontenac Club Hotel.