And we do what we like to call “crockers”, whenever Elvis Presley dies or congressman so and so die, a statement of accomplishments, condolences, regrets, and whatnot. I did the one on Elvis Presley. Rex Granum said they were getting a lot of calls in the press office, and they wanted one, so I leaned heavily on his being a humble young man from obscure beginnings who nevertheless went off to serve his country without complaint at the very height of his fame and fortune, as a truck driver in the German motor pool. Anyway, that didn’t work as I had planned. Rex still insisted on doing a crocker so Rick Hertzburg finally did one.

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This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "And we do what we like to call “crockers”, whenever Elvis Presley dies or congressman so and so die, a statement of accomplishments, condolences, regrets, and whatnot. I did the one on Elvis Presley. Rex Granum said they were getting a lot of calls in the press office, and they wanted one, so I leaned heavily on his being a humble young man from obscure beginnings who nevertheless went off to serve his country without complaint at the very height of his fame and fortune, as a truck driver in the German motor pool. Anyway, that didn’t work as I had planned. Rex still insisted on doing a crocker so Rick Hertzburg finally did one." in the context of "Jerome Doolittle, Pres. Carter's speech and joke writer, from an interview he had with Marie Allen, of the Presidential Papers Staff, on December 1978, a year and a half after Elvis died." to mean that wisdom is timeless.