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Camp David is a 125-acre (51 ha) country retreat for the president of the United States.It lies in the wooded hills of Catoctin Mountain Park, in Frederick County, Maryland, near the towns of Thurmont and Emmitsburg, about 62 miles (100 km) north-northwest of the national capital city, Washington, D.C. [1] [2] [3] It is code-named Naval Support Facility Thurmont.
The Camp David Accords were a pair of political agreements signed by Egyptian president Anwar Sadat and Israeli prime minister Menachem Begin on 17 September 1978, [1] following twelve days of secret negotiations at Camp David, the country retreat of the president of the United States in Maryland. [2]
Anwar Sadat, Jimmy Carter and Menachem Begin meet on the Aspen Lodge patio of Camp David on September 6, 1978. Sadat, Carter and Begin shaking hands after signing Peace treaty between Egypt and Israel in the White House, March 27, 1979. On taking office, Carter decided to attempt to mediate the long-running Arab–Israeli conflict. [49]
US President Dwight Eisenhower (1890 - 1965) (left) and Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev (1874 - 1971) at Camp David, Maryland, September 25, 1959.
The organization was created to provide secure normal, secret, and emergency communications requirements supporting the president. The organization provided mobile radio, Teletype, telegraph, telephone and cryptographic aides in the White House and at "Shangri-La" (now known as Camp David). The organizational mission was to provide a premier ...
Menachem Begin, Jimmy Carter and Anwar Sadat celebrating the signing of the Camp David Accords. In September 1978 US president Jimmy Carter invited president Sadat and prime minister Begin to meet with him at Camp David; on 11 September they agreed on a framework for peace between Israel and Egypt, and a comprehensive peace in the Middle East ...
The Egypt–Israel peace treaty [1] was signed in Washington, D.C., United States, on 26 March 1979, following the 1978 Camp David Accords.The Egypt–Israel treaty was signed by Anwar Sadat, President of Egypt, and Menachem Begin, Prime Minister of Israel, and witnessed by Jimmy Carter, President of the United States.
[A] The Camp David's "Framework for Peace in the Middle East" envisioned autonomy for the local, and only for the local, (Palestinian) inhabitants of West Bank and Gaza. At the time, there lived some 7,400 settlers in the West Bank (excluding East Jerusalem), [ 12 ] and 500 in Gaza, [ 13 ] with the number in the West Bank, however, rapidly growing.