Elvis had turned up at the White House unannounced – furious about the country's decline and about youngsters' infatuation with those leftie Brits, the Beatles; he wanted a sit-down with the president to discuss this, and privately request a special federal-agent-at-large badge so he could keep a covert eye on drug-taking in the entertainment community.
Roosevelt in turn wrote to Virginia Governor James Hubert Price asking him to guarantee that the trial was fair, and later persuaded the president to privately request that the death sentence be commuted.
Yet on the broader question of whether it was inconsistent for a lawmaker who has repeatedly deplored government spending to privately request his own slice of the pie, Johnson's office attempted to draw distinctions.
If he gave a reading and a blogger noted that he bore an uncanny resemblance to a young Stephen King, Hill privately requested that the blogger remove the reference.
Mr. Obama's letter, according to one official, was privately requested by Mr. McCain, among others, to provide assurances to Republicans who want to vote for the treaty without undermining missile defense.
The last time those ties manifested themselves was when Prince Charles privately requested that the Qatari royal family fire Richard Rogers and appoint a more "traditional" architect for their Chelsea Barracks redevelopment.
In conjunction with their decision to publish two additional papers that strongly question the link between the virus, known as XMRV, and CFS, editors at Science last week privately requested the retraction of the study that 2 years ago first made this connection.
This is a new release with artist Tina Lugo, whose work is so sexually explicit and awesome that 43,000+ people have privately "requested to follow" on IG.
Orville then privately requested the British museum to return the Flyer, but the airplane remained in protective storage for the duration of World War II and finally came home after Orville's death.
Mourning the loss of Moon Hee is something they wish to do privately and politely request they, and Niall, are left alone.
Micky Arison, Carnival's chief executive, above, first made the request privately to Lord Sterling of Plaistow, P & O's chairman, and its chief executive, Peter Ratcliffe, in a letter Sunday.
