His Presidential Yacht
This list couldn’t have been complete without Elvis’ prestigious boat. He purchased the presidential yacht (once owned by President Roosevelt), The Potomac, in 1964. The music legend paid $55,000 for the massive ship, and he intended it to preserve it as a “national shrine.”
The USS Potomac. Source: Wikimedia Commons
He wanted to donate it to the March of Dimes Foundation as a way of honoring President Roosevelt’s personal struggles with polio. But the organization thought that the maintenance of The Potomac would be too much to handle.