Washington. Jefferson. Roosevelt. Lincoln.

For more than 80 years, four presidents have looked out from Mount Rushmore.

We think there's room for one more American icon.

Dolly Parton.

Yes, we're serious.

Dolly Parton wasn't a president. She never held political office. And that may be precisely the point.

For decades, Dolly represented something increasingly rare in America: someone almost everyone could find a reason to love.

She grew up poor in the mountains of East Tennessee and became one of the most successful songwriters and entertainers in American history.

But what makes Dolly worthy of a place among America's most recognizable faces isn't simply what she accomplished for herself.

It's what she did for everyone else.

In 1995, inspired by her father's inability to read and write, Dolly founded the Imagination Library. What began by giving books to children in her home county in Tennessee grew into an international literacy program that has given hundreds of millions of free books to children.

She gave millions of dollars to disaster victims.

She supported children's hospitals and medical research.

She helped fund research that contributed to the development of a COVID-19 vaccine.

And she spent a lifetime demonstrating that enormous success didn't require treating other people as enemies.

She could be glamorous without taking herself too seriously, outspoken without being cruel, enormously wealthy without forgetting where she came from, and deeply rooted in one part of America while somehow belonging to all of it.

And she gave us "Jolene."

That ought to count for something.

Mount Rushmore was created to tell a story about America. Dolly Parton represents another part of that story: creativity, generosity, determination, humor, reinvention and the thoroughly American belief that a dirt-poor kid from the mountains can dream ridiculously big.

So we're asking our elected leaders and the National Park Service to begin exploring what it would take to add Dolly Parton's likeness to Mount Rushmore National Memorial.

Would it be difficult? Absolutely.

Expensive? Almost certainly.

A little crazy?

Have you seen Mount Rushmore?

Someone already carved four 60-foot-tall heads into a mountain. The crazy ship sailed a long time ago.

Following Dolly Parton's death, America has been searching for ways to honor an extraordinary life.

We have a modest suggestion:

Give the lady a mountain.

If you believe Dolly Parton's generosity, artistry and uniquely American life deserve a monument as big as her legacy, please sign this petition.
Put Dolly on the mountain.