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The camp was established in 1982 by Pepper Edmiston, a Los Angeles woman whose oldest son, David, had leukemia. Edmiston couldn’t find a summer camp that would take a boy with cancer, so she started her own camp, one that would be free to young cancer patients from all over Southern California. [1]
The Annenbergs envisioned Sunnylands becoming the "Camp David of the West," [13] a place for national and foreign dignitaries and diplomats to gather for summit meetings and retreats in a relaxed setting, available to leaders from all political parties. [4] President Dwight D. Eisenhower and his wife, Mamie, joined the Annenbergs to golf and fish.
President Joe Biden's family used a Sunday gathering at Camp David to urge him to stay in the race and keep fighting despite his dreadful debate performance, and some members criticized how his ...
Camp Afflerbaugh-Paige, La Verne. Consists of Camp Clinton B. Afflerbaugh and Camp Joseph M. Paige; Camp David Gonzales, Calabasas (Closed) Camp Karl Holton, Sylmar (rented out to State of California; inmates are housed in Camp Smith) (Closed) Camp Vernon Kilpatrick, Malibu; Camp William Mendenhall, Lake Hughes (Closed) Camp Fred Miller, Malibu ...
US President Dwight Eisenhower (1890 - 1965) (left) and Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev (1874 - 1971) at Camp David, Maryland, September 25, 1959.
One camper, from Oakland, California, has a white Jewish mother and a father who is Black and Muslim. Like many of the young people who shared challenges and adventures with them this summer, they ...
The enemy, meanwhile, fought to kill, mostly with the wars’ most feared and deadly weapon, the improvised explosive device. American troops trying to help Iraqis and Afghans were being killed and maimed, usually with nowhere to return fire. When the enemy did appear, it it was hard to sort out combatant from civilian, or child.
12-year-old David has lived in a concentration camp for as long as he can remember. David was a strong, brave, and intelligent boy who had been ripped away from his mother and put into a dreadful camp. His only friend in the camp, Johannes, died, as is revealed in a flashback in Chapter 1. One of the commandants has been keeping an eye on David ...