President Biden is set to appear in Dorchester on Monday. The White House said he’ll be at the JFK Presidential Library for a 4 p.m. speech on efforts to end cancer, also known as the “Cancer Moonshot.”
The speech is timed to coincide with the sixtieth anniversary of President Kennedy’s “Moonshot” speech. The 1962 speech, delivered at Rice University in Texas, came as the US battled the Soviet Union in a race to dominate space.
The livestream of the speech will be available here.
UMass Boston classes are remote for the day, while Boston College High School plans to dismiss students at 12:30 p.m.
“Motorists in and around Boston may experience traffic detours or delays today due to a special event,” the Massachusetts State Police said on Twitter.
President Biden landed at Logan Airport at 11 a.m. The president and his entourage headed next to the JFK Library on Dorchester’s Columbia Point, arriving around 1:30 p.m.
At Logan Airport, Biden visited the airport’s Terminal E, which he noted opened in 1974 with 1.4 million international passengers per year, compared to more than 5.6 million today, growth that the president said leads to congestion, flight delays and added pollution.
Biden pledged an “infrastructure decade” across the country and said investments under the law he helped pass would be the largest the nation has seen since highway outlays under President Dwight D. Eisenhower.
“We’re finally going to do something about it,” he said, citing infrastructure law investments in airports like Logan.
This post has been updated with additional information from State House News Service. This post initially had the JFK Library speech at the incorrect time. It is happening at 4 p.m.
