The 39th President of the United States, Jimmy Carter, would become the nation's longest-lived president after George H.W. Bush died in 2018 and he would be the first president to live to 95.
He then attended the annual U.S. Conference of Mayors. He told those in attendance that he had kept his 4-year-old promise to attack unemployment and physical decay in central cities.
The conference was not without controversy, as Carter’s democratic rival Edward Kennedy had also been invited to address the conference. After the White House strenuously objected to Kennedy speaking, the mayors withdrew their invitation. On Sept. 23, 1980, Carter received a 5:30 a.m. wake-up call from the White House board operator. He flew from D.C. to San Jose to Portland to McChord Air Force Base, landing at about 4:04 p.m.
He was accompanied by then-Lieutenant Gov. John Cherberg, who was there after Washington Gov. Dixy Lee Ray turned down the president’s invitation, as they traveled to the Continental Grain Company at the Port of Tacoma.
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