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  Camp David
It was renamed Camp David in 1953 by President Eisenhower in honor of his grandson.
A third camp, Camp Hi-Catoctin, was completed in the winter of 1938-1939 and was used for three years as a family camp for federal employees.
The camp for federal employee's families became the camp of one federal employee, the President of the United States.
www.fas.org /nuke/guide/usa/c3i/campdavid.htm   (798 words)

  
 Camp David Adventure Centre
The Camp David Adventure Centre is available for bookings during most of the year.
The whole (or part) of the camp's accommodation may be booked, or you may choose to visit for a day just to take part in the activities.
Camp David is situated on the banks of the Tukituki Rivers 25km south of Hastings on 184 acres and is well set up for camping adventures.
www.campdavid.org.nz   (239 words)

  
 Fredericksburg Texas Bed and Breakfasts TX Lodging
Camp David is one of the only in town Bed and Breakfasts in Fredericksburg, Texas that offers the privacy of your own comfortable cottage rental.
Camp David Bed and Breakfast is a member of the Fredericksburg Area Lodging and Hospitality Association.
And as with the original "Camp David", all cottages are named from local trees of the Fredericksburg, Texas area.
www.campdavidbb.com   (426 words)

  
 Camp David: The Tragedy of Errors - The New York Review of Books
Indeed, the Palestinians' principal failing is that from the beginning of the Camp David summit onward they were unable either to say yes to the American ideas or to present a cogent and specific counterproposal of their own.
The Camp David proposals were viewed as inadequate: they were silent on the question of refugees, the land exchange was unbalanced, and both the Haram and much of Arab East Jerusalem were to remain under Israeli sovereignty.
As the President repeatedly told Arafat during Camp David, he was not expecting him to agree to US or Israeli proposals, but he was counting on him to say something he could take back to Barak to get him to move some more.
www.nybooks.com /articles/14380   (7615 words)

  
 The presidential retreat Camp David Navy Supply Corps Newsletter - Find Articles
Over the past 60 years that the camp has been in operation, every sitting president has used it as their retreat and also as a place to bring world leaders to discuss world events.
From their meetings, the phrase "Spirit of Camp David" was coined to denote what has been thought to be a more amicable attitude toward world problems.
Camp David provides many outdoor recreational activities ranging from nature walks and running to golf and skeet shooting.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0NQS/is_4_66/ai_105556160   (817 words)

  
 Camp David
Camp David serves the President, providing the First Family and their guests with a healthy, safe and uniquely private place to work or relax.
During President Eisenhower's administration, Camp David was used mainly as a place to relax.
Prince Charles had previously visited Camp David in 1970 and his was the first of a record eighteen foreign leader visits during President Bush's time in office.
www.gamepuppet.com /presidents/david.htm   (815 words)

  
 Camp David II: Assumptions and Consequences -- Shibley Telhami   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
When the Camp David negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians ended without an agreement last July, the general verdict was that the summit had failed.
Indeed, the Camp David summit narrowed the gap between the two sides more than all the negotiations in the seven years that followed the 1993 Oslo accords.
Certainly this was the basis for optimism at the outset of the Camp David II negotiations.
www.brook.edu /views/articles/telhami/CHjanuary2001.htm   (3615 words)

  
 White House Military Office - Camp David
Camp David serves the President, providing the First Family and their guests with a healthy, safe and uniquely private place to work or relax.
Established as "Shangri-La" by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, it was subsequently renamed Camp David by Dwight Eisenhower.
A majority of Presidents have used Camp David to host visiting foreign leaders, with Prime Minister Winston Churchill of Great Britain being the first, during May 1943.
www.whitehouse.gov /whmo/camp-david.html   (116 words)

  
 Camp David, 2000
Talks during late 1999 and the first half of 2000 led to President Clinton's invitation to Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak and Yasser Arafat for a summit at Camp David, Maryland to be convened July 11, 2000.
But, what really happened at Camp David is that Barak offered astounding compromises in an effort to close a deal while Arafat stuck to the traditional Palestinian positions.
During the fall of 2000, with the al-Aqsa intifada raging, there were several more attempts to follow-up on the Camp David negotiations, in Washington and Taba, Egypt in January 2001.
www.palestinefacts.org /pf_1991to_now_campdavid_2000.php   (899 words)

  
 campDavidFAQ.html
Israel's Camp David proposal, which was never set forth in writing, denied the Palestinian state viability and independence by dividing Palestinian territory into four separate cantons entirely surrounded, and therefore controlled, by Israel.
However, Israel's Camp David proposal of a nine-to-one land swap (in Israel's favor) was viewed as so unfair as to seriously undermine belief in Israel's commitment to a fair territorial compromise.
Talks after Camp David suggested that Israel was prepared to allow Palestinians sovereignty over isolated Palestinian neighborhoods in the heart of East Jerusalem, however such neighborhoods would remain surrounded by illegal Israeli colonies and separated not only from each other but also from the rest of the Palestinian state.
www.globalexchange.org /campaigns/palestine/campDavidFAQ.html   (1705 words)

  
 Unsolicited Testimonials About Our Camp Director David Ettenberg
David Ettenberg is a man of exemplary morals and a fabulous human being.
David Ettenberg has the ability to make responsible and thoughtful decisions in a crisis and stressful situation that is absolutely imperative f.
David Ettenberg's enormous empathy for the campers and their families sets the tone for the camp, a tremendously caring and supportive environment.
www.campshane.com /testimonials/davidettenberg.htm   (533 words)

  
 Camp David | A History of the Presidential Retreat
The camp was renamed the USS Shangri La, to follow up on the nautical connection, since many workers involved with the Potomac worked on the camp.
President Jimmy Carter hosted the now famous Camp David Summit in 1978, between Egyptian President Anwar al-Sadat and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin, and resulted in what are now known as the Camp David Accords establishing peace between Egypt and Israel.
While President Bill Clinton visited Camp David infrequently in the early days of his administration, he did hold a week-long retreat on management with incoming administration officials in 1993.
www.infoplease.com /spot/campdavid1.html   (856 words)

  
 Camp David Adventure Centre - Health And Safety
The trustees and staff at Camp David Adventure Centre are committed to the safety and well-being of every employee and person attending any programme at camp.
The staff at Camp David prefer to run with a minimum of rules operating, but are concerned to keep all our visitors safe and healthy.
There are few camp rules but those we do have we require all visitors to respect and keep.
www.campdavid.org.nz /index.php?page=healthAndSafety   (484 words)

  
 Camp David of The Ozarks- FAQ
The geographical service area for Camp David of the Ozarks includes the local towns of Rolla, St. James, Newburg, and Salem.  The service area goes north as far as Jefferson City, east as far as St. Louis, south as far as Mountain Grove, and west as far as Lebanon.
The camp is free to all the campers because caring people sponsor them to come to camp.
Camp directors Ben and Grace Smith are praying for personal support so they can serve full time in the camp ministry.
www.campdavidozarks.org /FAQS.htm   (568 words)

  
 Camp David Summit 2000
The Camp David Summit was convened by U.S. President Bill Clinton on July 11, 2000, to bring together Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak and Chairman Arafat at Camp David for intensive negotiations for a final status agreement.
Faced with criticism after abandoning the negotiations at Camp David and the turn to violence barely two months later, Palestinians publicly declared that the failure of Camp David was due to lack of preparation by the Americans, personality differences between Barak and Arafat, and by Barak's "take-it-or-leave-it" negotiating posture.
Instead, Camp David demonstrated that Arafat and the Palestinian leadership had unrealistic expectations that they could force Israel to concede to their maximalist demands without making important compromises of their own.
www.adl.org /israel/advocacy/glossary/camp_david_summit.asp   (439 words)

  
 Camp David 2000
The Camp David summit took place from July 11-24, 2000, at the presidential retreat in Camp David, MD. Attending were President Bill Clinton, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak, and PA Chairman Yasser Arafat.
The intention of the gathering was, ostensibly, to negotiate a final settlement of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in accordance with the 1993 Oslo agreement.
Unfortunately, not — and his behavior at Camp David and afterward cannot be explained only by his suspicions that a trap was being set for him.
www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org /jsource/Peace/cd2000art.html   (1996 words)

  
 Camp David Negotiations
Apart from the facts (to which we turn directly), the biggest distortion in the dominant perspective on camp David is the symmetry it imposes on the two sides - both are facing equal sacrifices, which the rejectionist Palestinian side is not willing to undertake.
The crucial turning point in Camp David was that Barak demanded that what is signed is the 'final agreement', accompanied with a Palestinian declaration of 'end of conflict'.
The only undisputed fact about Barak's proposals in Camp David, is that the big settlement blocks in which 150 thousand of the settlers are concentrated will be annexed to Israel in the final agreement.
www.tau.ac.il /~reinhart/books_ME/Camp_David_Negotiations.html   (6469 words)

  
 American Experience | Jimmy Carter | People & Events
President Sadat had opened the door to Camp David in November 1977, when he became the first Arab leader to set foot on Israeli soil.
Although the political benefits were slight, the Camp David agreement was Carter's most important presidential accomplishment, and a shining moment in the Middle East peace process.
In October 2002 Jimmy Carter received the Nobel Peace Prize in part for his achievements at Camp David.
www.pbs.org /wgbh/amex/carter/peopleevents/e_peace.html   (1283 words)

  
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 Q&A: Laura Bush On Camp David, First Lady Talks About Camp David - CBS News
And certainly Camp David gives us a chance to have people there who keep him grounded and keep him aware of what life is like, besides being with the troops that are there all the time who are certainly not in a bubble.
And so they would come with him and go to Camp David when he was there, or be on the presidential yacht when he was on it.
And that was the very same weekend that we went to chapel together on Sunday morning at Camp David, and it just happened that weekend that the liturgy was the verse, "and I believe I shall see the goodness in the land of the living." And I think that was really a reassuring scripture.
www.cbsnews.com /stories/2005/12/24/politics/main1165155.shtml   (1908 words)

  
 Camp David and After: An Exchange (1. An Interview with Ehud Barak) - The New York Review of Books
Clinton was speaking of the two-week-long July 2000 Camp David conference that he had organized and mediated and its failure, and the eruption at the end of September of the Palestinian intifada, or campaign of anti-Israeli violence, which has continued ever since and which currently plagues the Middle East, with no end in sight.
Barak today portrays Arafat's behavior at Camp David as a "performance" geared to exacting from the Israelis as many concessions as possible without ever seriously intending to reach a peace settlement or sign an "end to the conflict." "He did not negotiate in good faith, indeed, he did not negotiate at all.
As to the charge raised by the Palestinians, and, in their wake, by Deborah Sontag, and Malley and Agha, that the Palestinians had been dragooned into coming to Camp David "unprepared" and prematurely, Barak is dismissive to the point of contempt.
www.nybooks.com /articles/15501   (4436 words)

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