List of meetings between the Pope and the President of the United States
The meetings

List of meetings between the Pope and the President of the United States

Section Title: The meetings
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Date	Country	City	President of the United States	Pope	Notes

January 4, 1919	Vatican	Rome	Woodrow Wilson	Pope Benedict XV	First meeting of an incumbent President of the United States and a reigning Pope.

December 6, 1959	Vatican	Rome	Dwight D. Eisenhower	Pope John XXIII

July 2, 1963	Vatican	Rome	John F. Kennedy	Pope Paul VI	First, and to date only, meeting of a Roman Catholic U.S. President and a reigning Pope.

October 4, 1965	United States	New York City	Lyndon B. Johnson	Pope Paul VI	First visit to the United States by a reigning Pope.

December 23, 1967	Vatican	Rome	Lyndon B. Johnson	Pope Paul VI

March 2, 1969	Vatican	Rome	Richard Nixon	Pope Paul VI

September 29, 1970	Vatican	Rome	Richard Nixon	Pope Paul VI

June 3, 1975	Vatican	Rome	Gerald Ford	Pope Paul VI

October 6, 1979	United States	Washington, D.C.	Jimmy Carter	Pope John Paul II	First visit to the White House by a reigning Pope.

June 21, 1980	Vatican	Rome	Jimmy Carter	Pope John Paul II

June 7, 1982	Vatican	Rome	Ronald Reagan	Pope John Paul II

May 2, 1984	United States	Fairbanks, Alaska	Ronald Reagan	Pope John Paul II	President Reagan was returning to the United States from a visit to China while Pope John Paul II was making a stopover on his way to South Korea, Papua New Guinea, the Solomon Islands, and Thailand.

June 6, 1987	Vatican	Rome	Ronald Reagan	Pope John Paul II

September 10, 1987	United States	Miami, Florida	Ronald Reagan	Pope John Paul II

May 27, 1989	Vatican	Rome	George H. W. Bush	Pope John Paul II

November 8, 1991	Vatican	Rome	George H. W. Bush	Pope John Paul II

August 12, 1993	United States	Denver, Colorado	Bill Clinton	Pope John Paul II	Both leaders addressed thousands of young students at World Youth Day.

June 2, 1994	Vatican	Rome	Bill Clinton	Pope John Paul II

October 4, 1995	United States	Newark, New Jersey	Bill Clinton	Pope John Paul II

January 26, 1999	United States	St. Louis, Missouri	Bill Clinton	Pope John Paul II

July 23, 2001	Holy See	Castel Gandolfo	George W. Bush	Pope John Paul II

May 28, 2002	Vatican	Rome	George W. Bush	Pope John Paul II

June 4, 2004	Vatican	Rome	George W. Bush	Pope John Paul II	President Bush presented Pope John Paul II with the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

June 9, 2007	Vatican	Rome	George W. Bush	Pope Benedict XVI

April 15–16, 2008	United States	Washington, D.C.	George W. Bush	Pope Benedict XVI	Further information: Pope Benedict XVI's visit to the United States

June 13, 2008	Vatican	Rome	George W. Bush	Pope Benedict XVI

July 10, 2009	Vatican	Rome	Barack Obama	Pope Benedict XVI

March 27, 2014	Vatican	Rome	Barack Obama	Pope Francis

September 22–23, 2015	United States	Washington, D.C.	Barack Obama	Pope Francis	Further information: Pope Francis' visit to the United States

May 24, 2017	Vatican	Rome	Donald Trump	Pope Francis

Sentence(s)

John Paul II became the first pope to visit the White House in October 1979, where Jimmy Carter was the President.

final_sentence: John Paul II became the first pope to visit the White House in October 1979, where Jimmy Carter was the President.