Only, Col. Tom Parker came along in time to reinvent Elvis. With all those dumb counter-counterculture Elvis movies in the Sixties and, later, the Wayne Newtonish jumpsuits, Parker turned him into something desiccated and banal, something you might expect to come across in the Smithsonian, like Archie Bunker's armchair. Elvis came on the scene hip and went out square. Bill Clinton needed a Col. Tom, and Hillary wasn't it. Look, BC, alluding to having a Black sensibility is one thing.
White kids do it all the time.
Tom understood was that, take it too far, you gonna get their parents angry. Just when he should have been doing an Elvis-like whitewash, he did the reverse. They forgave JFK being Catholic because he was also rich, handsome, and had a Boston accent. He was American aristocracy. If he wanted to fuck women in the White House, that was his prerogative.