Where Do U.S. Presidents Like to Vacation?
Sunday, August 13, 2023
About 60 miles northwest of Washington, D.C., is the official "country home" of the sitting U.S. President. |
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| Camp David was initially dubbed "Shangri-La" by its first resident, President Franklin D. Roosevelt, who modeled the main house after his vacation home in Warm Springs, Georgia. The famously plain-spoken President Dwight D. Eisenhower found the name "a little too fancy," and renamed the 200-acre property in Maryland's Catoctin Mountain Park in honor of his grandson, David. |
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