CAMP DAVID


Meaning of CAMP DAVID in English

the special home, office and camp for the US President in the Catoctin Mountains in the state of Maryland . It was called Shangri-La when first used in 1942 by President Franklin D Roosevelt but in 1953 President Eisenhower named it after his grandson David. Meetings there in 1978 led to the Camp David Agreement for peace between Egypt and Israel.

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