Above: President Nixon was forced to resign last week following a meeting with "Hound Dog" singer Elvis Presley.

      WASHINGTON, DC  In a surprise reshuffling of the federal government's executive branch, President Nixon has been forced to resign following a hotly disputed decision to name pop singer Elvis Presley as special White House drug liaison.

While it was not immediately clear whether the President's connection with the controversial hip-swinging entertainer was the cause of the contentious political scandal, Democrats and Republicans agreed that a series of imbroglios involving questionable use of the office of President had created an environment in which Nixon was faced with a choice of resignation or impeachment.

Last week, the President appeared on the television show "Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In", delivering the popular but ribald catch-phrase "Sock it to me!" While White House staffer H.R. "Bob" Haldeman characterized the appearance as an effort to "connect with America's young people," Special prosecutor Archibald Cox decried what he called "a shocking abuse of executive privilege," adding "The President could at least have said something was 'very interesting, but shtupid' in that funny German accent."

Perhaps most controversial of all was a missing 18 and-one-half - minute audio tape, believed to be a special performance of Iron Butterfly's "Inna Gadda da Vita" which Nixon recorded in the Oval Office and submitted to Frank Sinatra's Reprise record label - in violation of the popular band's copyright privileges.

In a separate action, Vice-President Spiro Agnew also resigned after CBS News aired footage of Agnew dancing naked at the recent "Woodstock" arts festival in upstate New York.

Senator Gerald Ford, best known for his work with the Warren Commission on the assassination of President Hayes, was immediately sworn in as President, with a promise to name FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover as Secretary of Health and Human Services.

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