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Dec 29, 2024 | themercedfocus.org | James Leonard |Merced College |Jill Cunningham

Reading Time: 5 minutesEditor’s Note: In light of President Jimmy Carter’s death, we are republishing an article about a visit the 39th U.S. president to Merced back in 1980, courtesy of Merced College. The story was written when Carter turned 100 earlier this year. On the Fourth of July in 1980, in the middle of a presidential campaign and beneath the cloud of the Iran hostage crisis, politics were put to the side—mostly—on a historic day in Merced.