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On this day in 1957, Elvis Presley made a down payment on the property known as Graceland. Here’s Paul Simon’s great song mythically commemorating the place, performed in Central Park.
Ed Kilgore is a political columnist for New York Magazine; a longtime contributor to the Washington Monthly; and a former policy adviser to three governors and a U.S. senator from his home state of Georgia.
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