Wednesday, October 7, 2026

Question: Seized from drug smugglers in San Francisco in 1980, Franklin D. Roosevelt’s former presidential yacht, the USS Potomac, had been purchased years earlier by which music legend?

Answer: Elvis Presley. In 1964 he paid $55,000 for Franklin D. Roosevelt’s former “floating White House” and donated it to St. Jude’s Children’s Hospital, which sold it to raise money. The yacht later passed to drug smugglers, was seized in San Francisco in 1980, and was eventually restored and opened to the public.