Английская Википедия:Camp David

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Шаблон:Short description Шаблон:About Шаблон:Use mdy dates Шаблон:Infobox military installation Camp David is a Шаблон:Convert 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 Шаблон:Convert north-northwest of the national capital city of Washington, D.C. It is code named Naval Support Facility Thurmont. Technically a military installation, its staffing is primarily provided by the Seabees, Civil Engineer Corps (CEC), the United States Navy and the United States Marine Corps. Naval construction battalions are tasked with Camp David construction and send detachments as needed.

Originally known as Hi-Catoctin, Camp David was built as a retreat for federal government agents and their families by the Works Progress Administration. Construction started in 1935 and was completed in 1938. In 1942, President Franklin D. Roosevelt converted it to a presidential retreat and renamed it "Shangri-La", after the fictional Himalayan paradise. Camp David received its present name in 1953 from President Dwight D. Eisenhower, in honor of his father and his grandson, both named David.

The Catoctin Mountain Park does not indicate the location of Camp David on park maps due to privacy and security concerns, although it can be seen through the use of publicly accessible satellite images.

Presidential use

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Winston Churchill and FDR at Shangri-La, May 1943

Camp David has been used to host private diplomatic meetings with foreign leaders and heads of state since at least World War II. Franklin D. Roosevelt hosted Sir Winston Churchill at Shangri-La in May 1943, during World War II. Dwight Eisenhower held his first cabinet meeting there on November 22, 1955, following hospitalization and convalescence he required after a heart attack suffered in Denver, Colorado, on September 24. Eisenhower met Nikita Khrushchev there for two days of discussions in September 1959.

John F. Kennedy and his family often enjoyed riding and other recreational activities there, and Kennedy often allowed White House staff and Cabinet members to use the retreat when he or his family were not there. Lyndon B. Johnson met with advisors in this setting and hosted both Australian prime minister Harold Holt and Canadian prime minister Lester B. Pearson there. Richard Nixon was a frequent visitor. He personally directed the construction of a swimming pool and other improvements to Aspen Lodge. Gerald Ford hosted Indonesian president Suharto at Camp David.

Jimmy Carter initially favored closing Camp David in order to save money, but once he visited the retreat, he decided to keep it. Carter brokered the Camp David Accords there in September 1978 between Egyptian president Anwar al-Sadat and Israeli prime minister Menachem Begin. Ronald Reagan visited the retreat more than any other president. In 1984, Reagan hosted British prime minister Margaret Thatcher. Reagan restored the nature trails that Nixon paved over so he could horseback ride at Camp David. George H. W. Bush's daughter, Dorothy Bush Koch, was married there in 1992, in the first wedding held at Camp David. During his tenure as president, Bill Clinton spent every Thanksgiving at Camp David with his family.Шаблон:Sfn In July 2000, he hosted the 2000 Camp David Summit negotiations between Israeli prime minister Ehud Barak and Palestinian Authority chairman Yasser Arafat there.

In February 2001, George W. Bush held his first meeting with a European leader, UK prime minister Tony Blair, at Camp David, to discuss missile defense, Iraq, and NATO. After the September 11 attacks, Bush held a Cabinet meeting at Camp David to prepare the United States invasion of Afghanistan. During his two terms in office, Bush visited Camp David 149 times, for a total of 487 days, for hosting foreign visitors as well as a personal retreat.Шаблон:Sfn He met Blair there four times.Шаблон:Sfn Among the numerous other foreign leaders he hosted at Camp DavidШаблон:Sfn were Russian president Vladimir Putin and President Musharraf of Pakistan in 2003, Danish prime minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen in June 2006, and British prime minister Gordon Brown in 2007.

Barack Obama chose Camp David to host the 38th G8 summit in 2012. President Obama also hosted Russian prime minister Dmitry Medvedev at Camp David, as well as the GCC Summit there in 2015.

Donald Trump hosted Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell and Speaker of the House Paul Ryan at Camp David while the Republican Party prepared to defend both houses of Congress in the 2018 midterm elections. The 46th G7 summit was to be held at Camp David on June 10–12, 2020, but was cancelled due to health concerns during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.

Joe Biden hosted the U.S.–Japan–Korea Summit with Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida and South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol at Camp David in August 2023, resulting declaration of Camp David Principles on trilateral relationship among U.S., Japan and South Korea.

Count of visits by each president

Presidential visits to Camp David

President	No. of visits	Years in office
Roosevelt	Unknown	1933–1945
Truman	10	1945–1953
Eisenhower	45	1953–1961
Kennedy	19	1961–1963
Johnson	30	1963–1969
Nixon	160	1969–1974
Ford	29	1974–1977
Carter	99	1977–1981
Reagan	189	1981–1989
G. H. W. Bush	124	1989–1993
Clinton	60	1993–2001
G. W. Bush	150	2001–2009
Obama	39	2009–2017
Trump	15	2017–2021
Biden	33	2021–present

Practice golf facility

To be able to play his favorite sport, President Eisenhower had golf course architect Robert Trent Jones design a practice golf facility at Camp David. Around 1954, Jones built one golf hole—a par 3—with four different tees; Eisenhower added a Шаблон:Convert driving range near the helicopter landing zone.

Security incidents

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Aviation chart showing restricted airspace in the Washington DC area. Camp David is the light circle to the north.

On July 2, 2011, an F-15 intercepted a civilian aircraft approximately Шаблон:Convert from Camp David, when President Obama was in the residence. The two-seater, which was out of radio communication, was escorted to nearby Hagerstown, Maryland, without incident.

On July 10, 2011, an F-15 intercepted another small plane near Camp David when Obama was again in the residence; a total of three were intercepted that weekend.

See also

• List of residences of presidents of the United States
• Blair House, another official White House lodging for guests
• Camp Misty Mount Historic District and Camp Greentop Historic District, built at the same time in Catoctin Mountain Park as CampsШаблон:Nbsp1 andШаблон:Nbsp2
• Chequers, the country house of the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
• Harrington Lake, the retreat of the Prime Minister of Canada
• Night of Camp David, a 1965 novel (political thriller)
• Official residence
• Orange One, a U.S. Navy-operated facility underneath Camp David
• Presidential Townhouse, the official guest house for former U.S. presidents
• Rapidan Camp, the predecessor of Camp David from 1929 to 1933
• Site R, bunker and communications center near Camp David
• Trowbridge House, adjacent to Blair House and the guest house for former presidents
• White House, official residence of the president of the United States since 1800

References

Works cited

• Шаблон:Cite book

External links

• Шаблон:Official website
• Digital documents regarding Camp David Шаблон:Webarchive from the Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Library