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Notes on a Private Meeting with Pope John Paul II

President Jimmy Carter’s Notes from his private meeting with Pope John Paul II, October 6, 1979. (detail)
During his first papal pilgrimage to the United States in October 1979, Pope John Paul II was welcomed to White House by President Jimmy Carter on October 6, 1979. The two men met privately in the Oval Office for an hour — President Carter’s notes from that historic meeting are shown here.

Carter’s notes and other gripping eyewitness acounts from U.S. History are part of the Eyewitness exhibit–travelling to museums nationwide through 2008.

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