Collection Eleanor Roosevelt's "My Day"
The White House Historical Association and the Eleanor Roosevelt Papers Project present this collaboration in an effort to open a...
Presidential Vacations & Retreats: President Franklin Roosevelt at Shangri-La
- Date of Work
- May 1943
- Medium
- Photo
- Credit
- Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum/NARA
Presidential Vacations & Retreats: President Franklin Roosevelt at Shangri-La
In May 1943 Winston Churchill visiting Shangri-La (now known as Camp David) where he had a chance to observe Roosevelt working on his stamp collection, The prime minister recalled that he watched him "with much interest and in silence for perhaps half an hour as he stuck them in, each in its proper place, and so forgot the cares of the State."
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