October 6, 2013. Not only is this day one of my best friend's birthday, this happens to be a fairly important date in history. On October 6, 1979, Jimmy Carter received Pope John Paul the second. This was the first pope to visit the white house.
Although I am not catholic, the meeting of the president and the Pope should been seen as a very important date in history. The two men met privately for an hour in the oval office, discussing how the Pope dealt with being in charge of the 1.1 billion Catholics around the world. The pope replied with that he prayed about it more than anything.
This date/ meeting is important because the president and the Pope agreed that efforts to improve human rights around the world as well as at home remained as the key idea of their (and our) times. Because of this, Jimmy Carter upheld a Human Rights policy and kept it strong. Human Rights is important because it ensures the rights to other humans in other countries with tyrant leaders. By projecting the hopeful messages of the Pope and Jimmy Carter, they were able to keep a policy of Human Rights very important to our nation that still exists today.
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