James Hilton (novelist) the occasional Tibetan monks in saffron robes. The name "Shangri-La" has become a byword for a mythical utopia, a permanently happy land, isolated from the world. After the Doolittle Raid on Tokyo, when the fact that the bombers had flown from an aircraft carrier remained highly classified, U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt told the press facetiously that they had taken off from Shangri-La. The Navy subsequently gave that name to an aircraft carrier, and Roosevelt named his Maryland presidential retreat "Shangri-La". (Later, President Dwight D. Eisenhower renamed the retreat Camp David after his grandson, and that name has been used
Eisenhower House (Laurel, Maryland) of 1919 Thomas Ray suffered a stroke, and a one-story enclosed porch was constructed on the west side of the building to provide Ray a space to recuperate. At the same time the Rays began to rent out rooms in the house to provide supplemental income, and the building became known as Mrs. Ray's Boarding House. Also in March 1919, then-Major Dwight D. Eisenhower was transferred from Fort Benning to Camp Meade, where he had previously organized the 65th Engineer Battalion in early 1918. In June 1919 his wife Mamie Eisenhower, who had been living in Denver with their son