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Originally known as '''Hi-Catoctin''', Camp David was built as a retreat for federal government agents and their families by the [[Works Progress Administration]].<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|date=2016-08-15|title=Camp David|url=https://www.archives.gov/publications/prologue/2008/winter/camp-david.html|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200503010745/https://www.archives.gov/publications/prologue/2008/winter/camp-david.html|archive-date=2020-05-03|access-date=2019-10-09|website=National Archives|language=en|quote=Officially a U.S. Navy installation, the facility was originally built by the Works Progress Administration as a camp for government employees, opening in 1938. President Franklin D. Roosevelt took it over in a few years and named it "Shangri-La," for the mountain kingdom in Lost Horizon, the 1933 novel by James Hilton. It was renamed in 1953 by President Dwight D. Eisenhower in honor of his then-five-year-old grandson, Dwight David Eisenhower II.}}</ref> Construction started in 1935 and was completed in 1938.<ref>{{cite web | title =12 WPA Projects that Still Exist | date =September 16, 2007 | publisher =[[How Stuff Works]] | url =http://people.howstuffworks.com/12-wpa-projects-that-still-exist.htm | access-date =March 11, 2009}}</ref> In 1942, President [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]] converted it to a presidential retreat and renamed it "'''Shangri-La'''", after the [[Shangri-La|fictional Himalayan paradise]].<ref name=":0" /> Camp David received its present name in 1953 from President [[Dwight D. Eisenhower]], in honor of his father and his [[David Eisenhower|grandson]], both named David.<ref>{{cite book |last=Eisenhower |first=David |author2=Julie Nixon Eisenhower |title=Going Home to Glory: A Memoir of Life with Dwight David Eisenhower, 1961–1969 |url=https://archive.org/details/goinghometoglory00davi_0 |url-access=registration |publisher=[[Simon & Schuster]] |location=New York |year=2010 |page=[https://archive.org/details/goinghometoglory00davi_0/page/31 31]}}</ref>

Camp David has been used to host private [[Diplomacy|diplomatic]] meetings with foreign leaders and [[Head of state|heads of state]] since at least [[World War II]]. [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]] hosted [[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>

[[File:Ronald Reagan Jose Lopez Portillo Camp David 1981.jpg|left|thumb|U.S. President [[Ronald Reagan]] (left) and Mexican President [[José López Portillo]] (right) riding horses in Camp David, Maryland.]]

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|archive-date=July 27, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200727081137/http://edition.cnn.com/2001/US/02/24/bush.blair.01/|url-status=dead}}</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>

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.<ref name="washpostf151">{{cite news |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/jet-fighters-intercept-planes-3-times-over-weekend-near-camp-david/2011/07/10/gIQAEzan7H_story.html | title=Jet fighters intercept planes 3 times over weekend near Camp David |newspaper=[[The Washington Post]] | date=July 10, 2011 | access-date=January 26, 2015 | last=Weil | first=Martin}}</ref>{{clear}}

* [[Chequers]], the country house of the [[Prime Minister of the United Kingdom]]

* [[Harrington Lake]], the retreat of the [[Prime Minister of Canada]]

 

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