Collection The 2019 White House Christmas Ornament
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Presidential Vacations & Retreats: President Eisenhower's Camp David
- Date of Work
- 1960
- Medium
- Photo
- Credit
- Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Library, Museum and Boyhood Home/ NARA
Presidential Vacations & Retreats: President Eisenhower's Camp David
President Dwight D. Eisenhower's grandson David Eisenhower posed beneath his name on the sign at Camp David in 1960. According to Press Secretary Jim Haggerty, President Eisenhower renamed the retreat after his grandson and father, both named David, and David was his own middle name. President Franklin Roosevelt's name "Shangri-La, "was just a little fancy for a Kansas farm boy," according to the president.
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JAMES ARCHER ABBOTT is the Executive Director of the Lewes Historical Society in Lewes, Delaware. His publications include JANSEN, JANSEN...
