Support WBURU.S. presidents have met with the pope since 1919. It all started with Woodrow WilsonJaclyn DiazOctober 29, 2021 SharePope John XXIII with President Dwight D. Eisenhower, who stands at left, during an audience granted in the pontiff's private library in the Vatican Palace on Dec. 6, 1959. Eisenhower was the second U.S. president to meet the pope. (Associated Press)
