Since the blog has launched this July 4, 2015 Independence Day I'll share an anecdote we ran across fooling around one afternoon in the studio. (Big shout out to my design director at the time, Steve Shaw.) This little slice of American lore centers around Elvis Presley, Richard Nixon and their meeting at the Oval Office in December of 1970. They are such an incongruous pairing and the publicity images are such a hoot that I've used one as my desktop's desktop image for the past couple of years, eliciting chuckles from such a wide range of passersby that I haven't found another image yet to replace it. Only a Frank Sinatra and Michael Jackson portrait (included in the gallery link below) comes close but it's a little too saturated and not neutral enough for a desktop.
The full story is on the Smithsonian site here.
Select images here including Elvis's handwritten letters on airline stationery.