Camp David – originally dubbed Shangri-La – was created by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1942 during World War II. He wanted a secure presidential hideaway outside of DC, and quickly gave ...

Eisenhower even renamed it “Camp David,” in honor of his 5-year-old grandson.. Planning a summer wedding? When your wedding is at the White House, no detail is too small – even in the 1800s ...

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.

The late President Jimmy Carter presided over a key landmark in the Arab-Israeli peace process, the 1979 Camp David Accords signed by Egypt and Israel. Carter’s lifelong interest in resolving ...

Jimmy Carter's negotiation of the Camp David Accords was his key achievement, fostering enduring peace between Israel and ...

President Jimmy Carter's crowning foreign policy achievement, the Camp David Accords of 1978, was the first peace agreement brokered in the Middle East since Israel became a nation in 1948.

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Perhaps former President Jimmy Carter’s most significant achievement was negotiating the Camp David Accords forging peace between Israel and Egypt, an agreement that has survived for nearly half ...