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[[Franklin D. Roosevelt]] hosted [[Winston Churchill|Sir Winston Churchill]] at Shangri-La in May 1943, during [[World War II]].<ref name="whitehouse1">{{cite web |url=https://www.whitehouse.gov/about/camp_david/ |title=Camp David |publisher=[[White House|Whitehouse.gov]] |access-date=June 29, 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090630021056/http://www.whitehouse.gov/about/camp_david/ |archive-date=June 30, 2009 |url-status=dead |df=mdy-all }}</ref> [[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|Denver, Colorado]], on September 24.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pid=10363|title=Dwight D. Eisenhower: Message Prepared for the Conference on Fitness of American Youth.|access-date=May 2, 2015|archive-date=March 4, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304211020/http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pid=10363|url-status=dead}}</ref> Eisenhower met [[Nikita Khrushchev]] there for two days of discussions in September 1959.<ref>{{Cite news|title=Eisenhower and Khrushchev meet for talks|language=en|work=History|url=https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/eisenhower-and-khrushchev-meet-for-talks|access-date=2020-06-08}}</ref> [[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.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Camp David {{!}} A History of the Presidential Retreat|url=https://www.infoplease.com/us/government/executive-branch/history-of-camp-david|access-date=2020-06-16|website=www.infoplease.com|language=en}}</ref> [[Lyndon B. Johnson]] met with advisors in this setting and hosted both [[Prime Minister of Australia|Australian prime minister]] [[Harold Holt]] and [[Prime Minister of Canada|Canadian prime minister]] [[Lester B. Pearson]] there.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pid=28308|title=272 – Address at the State Department's Foreign Policy Conference for Educators.|date=June 19, 1967|work=The American Presidency Project|access-date=February 2, 2017|archive-date=December 27, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161227195747/http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pid=28308|url-status=dead}}</ref> [[Richard Nixon]] was a frequent visitor. He personally directed the construction of a swimming pool and other improvements to Aspen Lodge.<ref>W. Dale Nelson, ''The President is at Camp David'' (Syracuse University Press, 1995), pp. 69–94.</ref> [[Gerald Ford]] hosted [[President of Indonesia|Indonesian president]] [[Suharto]] at Camp David.<ref name="infoplease1">{{cite web|url=http://www.infoplease.com/spot/campdavid1.html |title=Camp David: A History of the Presidential Retreat |publisher=Infoplease.com |date=July 18, 1942 |access-date=June 29, 2009}}</ref> [[Jimmy Carter]] initially favored closing Camp David in order to save money, but once he visited the retreat, he decided to keep it.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=266&dat=19770822&id=2d0wAAAAIBAJ&pg=1091,5150913&hl=en|title=Kentucky New Era |via= Google News Archive Search|website=news.google.com|access-date=2019-10-09}}</ref> Carter brokered the [[Camp David Accords]] there in September 1978 between [[President of Egypt|Egyptian president]] [[Anwar Sadat|Anwar al-Sadat]] and [[Prime Minister of Israel|Israeli prime minister]] [[Menachem Begin]].<ref name="whitehouse1"/> [[Ronald Reagan]] visited the retreat more than any other president.<ref name=":1" /> In 1984, Reagan hosted [[Prime Minister of the United Kingdom|British prime minister]] [[Margaret Thatcher]].<ref>{{Cite book|last=Aldous, Richard|title=Reagan and Thatcher : the difficult relationship|date=2012|publisher=W.W. Norton & Co|isbn=978-0-393-06900-6|edition= 1st|location=New York|oclc=738350026}}</ref> Reagan restored the nature trails that Nixon paved over so he could horseback ride at Camp David.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://aboutcampdavid.blogspot.com/2010/10/horseback-riding.html|title = Horseback Riding|date = October 2010}}</ref> [[George H. W. Bush]]'s daughter, [[Dorothy Bush Koch]], was married there in 1992, in the first wedding held at Camp David.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1992/06/28/us/bush-s-daughter-marries-with-a-minimum-of-fuss.html|title=Bush's Daughter Marries With 'a Minimum of Fuss'|date=June 28, 1992|work=[[The New York Times]]}}</ref> During his tenure as president, [[Bill Clinton]] spent every Thanksgiving at Camp David with his family.{{sfn|O'Brien|2018|p=[https://books.google.com/books?id=LlBVDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA178 178]}} In July 2000, he hosted the [[2000 Camp David Summit]] negotiations between Israeli prime minister [[Ehud Barak]] and Palestinian Authority chairman [[Yasser Arafat]] there.<ref name="retreat">{{cite web|last1=Shankar|first1=Dakshayani|last2=Wells|first2=Dylan|title=What to know about presidential retreat Camp David where Trump travels Friday|url=https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/presidential-retreat-camp-david-trump-travels-friday/story?id=49273534|website=[[ABC News]]|date=September 8, 2017|access-date=May 16, 2020}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://2001-2009.state.gov/p/nea/rls/22698.htm|title=Trilateral Statement on the Middle East Peace Summit at Camp David|last=Department Of State. The Office of Electronic Information|first=Bureau of Public Affairs|website=2001-2009.state.gov|language=en|access-date=2019-10-09}}</ref> 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.<ref>{{cite web|title=Bush, Blair conclude meetings at Camp David|url=http://edition.cnn.com/2001/US/02/24/bush.blair.01/|website=[[CNN]]|date=February 24, 2001|access-date=May 16, 2020}}</ref> After the [[September 11 attacks]], Bush held a Cabinet meeting at Camp David to prepare the [[United States invasion of Afghanistan]].<ref>{{Cite book|last=Henriksen|first=Thomas H.|url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/9781009053242/type/book|title=America's Wars: Interventions, Regime Change, and Insurgencies after the Cold War|year=2022|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-1-009-05324-2|edition=1|doi=10.1017/9781009053242.005}}</ref> 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.{{sfn|O'Brien|2018|p=[https://books.google.com/books?id=LlBVDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA181 181]}} He met Blair there four times.{{sfn|O'Brien|2018|p=[https://books.google.com/books?id=LlBVDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA181 181]}} Among the numerous other foreign leaders he hosted at Camp David{{sfn|O'Brien|2018|p=[https://books.google.com/books?id=LlBVDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA181 181]}} were [[President of Russia|Russian president]] [[Vladimir Putin]]<ref>{{cite news |title=With issues to resolve, Bush welcomes Putin to Camp David |date=September 27, 2003 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2003/09/27/world/with-issues-to-resolve-bush-welcomes-putin-to-camp-david.html |work=[[The New York Times]] |access-date=August 6, 2011 |first=David |last=Sanger }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.losthorizon.org/found/CampDavid |title=Camp David |access-date=August 6, 2011 |archive-date=October 1, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111001045619/http://www.losthorizon.org/found/CampDavid/ |url-status=dead }}</ref> and President [[Musharraf]] of [[Pakistan]] in 2003,<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov/news/releases/2003/06/20030624-3.html|work=[[whitehouse.gov]]|title=President Bush Welcomes President Musharraf to Camp David|via=[[NARA|National Archives]]|access-date=2019-10-09}}</ref> [[Prime Minister of Denmark|Danish prime minister]] [[Anders Fogh Rasmussen]] in June 2006,<ref name="retreat"/> and British prime minister [[Gordon Brown]] in 2007.<ref>{{cite news |title=Brown to meet Bush at Camp David |date=July 26, 2007 |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/6917760.stm |work=[[BBC News Online]] |access-date=August 6, 2011 }}</ref> [[Barack Obama]] chose Camp David to host the [[38th G8 summit]] in 2012.<ref>{{cite web |title=White House moves G8 summit from Chicago to Camp David |url=http://chicago.cbslocal.com/2012/03/05/g8-summit-moved-to-camp-david/ |work=CBS Chicago |access-date=May 18, 2012 |date=March 5, 2012 }}</ref> President Obama also hosted [[Prime Minister of Russia|Russian prime minister]] [[Dmitry Medvedev]] at Camp David,<ref>{{cite news |title=US hopes Assad can be eased aut with Russia's aid |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/27/world/middleeast/us-seeks-russias-help-in-removing-assad-in-syria.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220101/https://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/27/world/middleeast/us-seeks-russias-help-in-removing-assad-in-syria.html |archive-date=2022-01-01 |url-access=limited |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=May 26, 2012 |access-date=May 27, 2012 |last1=Cooper |first1=Helene |last2=Landler |first2=Mark }}{{cbignore}}</ref> as well as the [[Gulf Cooperation Council|GCC]] Summit there in 2015.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2015/04/17/statement-press-secretary-united-states-gcc-summit|work=[[whitehouse.gov]]|title=Statement by the Press Secretary on the United States-GCC Summit|via=[[NARA|National Archives]]|date=April 17, 2015}}</ref> [[Donald Trump]] hosted Senate majority leader [[Mitch McConnell]] and Speaker of the House [[Paul Ryan]] at Camp David while the [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican Party]] prepared to defend both houses of Congress in the [[2018 midterm elections]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/366656-trump-to-host-congressional-leaders-at-camp-david|title=Trump to host congressional leaders at Camp David|last=Manchester|first=Julia|date=2017-12-28|website=[[The Hill (newspaper)|The Hill]]|language=en|access-date=2019-01-08}}</ref> 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]].<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://business.financialpost.com/pmn/business-pmn/trump-cancels-g7-at-camp-david-over-coronavirus-to-hold-videoconference-instead|title=Trump cancels G7 at Camp David over coronavirus, to hold videoconference instead |last=Mason|first=Jeff|date=2020-03-19|language=en-CA|access-date=2020-03-19| newspaper=Financial Post}}</ref> [[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.<ref>{{cite news |title=US, Japan, South Korea to announce deeper defense cooperation at Camp David summit |url=https://apnews.com/article/biden-yoon-kishida-camp-david-missile-defense-f3ce58da383f2255ee479624645db542 |access-date=August 16, 2023 |website=Associated Press |date=August 16, 2023}}</ref> === Count of visits by each president === {| class="wikitable sortable" style="text-align:left;" |+Presidential visits to Camp David<ref name=":1">{{cite book |last=Giorgione |first=Michael |date=2017 |title=Inside Camp David: The Private World of the Presidential Retreat |pages=34–43 |publisher=Little, Brown and Company |location=New York|isbn=978-0-316-50961-9}}</ref> |- ! 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 || 34 |2021–present |} Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page