Elvis fans already consider Graceland a national treasure.
Interior Secretary Gale Norton will arrive in Memphis on Monday for ceremonies to make the designation official.
The home of Elvis Presley, which hosts more than 600,000 tourists a year, will join the Alamo, Pearl Harbor, the White House and Mt. Vernon as a National Historic Landmark.
In honor of this auspicious occasion, I will later re-run my semi-autobiographical thoughts on Elvis.
