Politics
Obama hosts G8 leaders at Camp David summit
President Franklin D. Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill met at the retreat in 1943 to discuss plans to invade Normandy during the Second World War.
Under Jimmy Carter, Egypt and Israel signed a peace treaty at Camp David. George W. Bush, meantime, was so fond of the retreat that he spent almost 500 days at Camp David throughout his two terms as president.
Part of the appeal is the retreat’s tightly controlled location within Catoctin Mountain Park. The public can’t get anywhere near Camp David; protesters, indeed, were descending upon Thurmont, almost six kilometers away, to make their feelings known.
By Saturday, hundreds could line the streets of the town of 6,000 to protest everything from the U.S. government bailout of banks to the American military’s use of unmanned drone aircraft. Others will push for nuclear disarmament and civil rights in Ethiopia.
Copyright 2012 The Associated Press
