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Take a look at how Camp David has changed through the years. Camp David was known as Shangri-La when President Franklin D. Roosevelt established it as a presidential retreat in 1942. Shangri-La ...
Camp David is a 125-acre (51 ha) country retreat for the president of the United States.It is located in the wooded hills of Catoctin Mountain Park, in Frederick County, Maryland, near the towns of Thurmont and Emmitsburg, about 62 miles (100 km) north-northwest of the national capital city of Washington, D.C. [1] [2] [3] It is code named Naval Support Facility Thurmont.
Date/Time Thumbnail Dimensions User Comment; current: 03:13, 13 October 2012: 1 min 51 s, 640 × 480 (28.58 MB): US National Archives bot == {{int:filedesc}} == {{NARA-image-full |Title=Video Recording of Photo Opportunity at Camp David |Scope and content=This item is a video recording of President William Jefferson Clinton, Prime Minister Ehud Barak and Chairman Yasir Arafat participati...
US President Dwight Eisenhower (1890 - 1965) (left) and Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev (1874 - 1971) at Camp David, Maryland, September 25, 1959.
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.
Joe Biden arrived on Friday for his first weekend as U.S. president at Camp David, the storied retreat in the mountains of western Maryland that many predecessors found to be a rustic getaway from ...
Orange One was first visited by a sitting president in the 1950s when Dwight D. Eisenhower inspected the facility while leading the exercise Operation Alert. [3] In April 1961, then-former president Eisenhower returned to Camp David for consultations with John F. Kennedy on the failed Bay of Pigs invasion. [4]
Biden chose the rustic redoubt in the Maryland hills for the first U.S.-Japan-South Korea summit because Camp David has often been used to symbolize newfound or hard-won friendship, a senior ...