On Valentine’s Day of 1964, while most people exchanged flowers and cards, Elvis Presley offered something far more meaningful — a gesture of love that would last beyond any lifetime. Beneath the California sun, he handed over the keys and deed to the USS Potomac, the former presidential yacht of Franklin D. Roosevelt. The gift was not for himself or for show, but for the children of St. Jude Hospital in Memphis, the charity founded by his friend Danny Thomas just two years earlier.
On Valentine’s Day of 1964, while most people exchanged flowers and cards, Elvis Presley offered something far more meaningful — a gesture of love that would last beyond any lifetime.…