Camp David in 1935 and was completed in 1938. In 1942, President Franklin D. Roosevelt converted it to a presidential retreat and renamed it "Shangri-La" (for the fictional Himalayan paradise in the 1933 novel "Lost Horizon" by British author James Hilton, which he had jokingly referenced as the source of the Doolittle Raid earlier that year). Camp David received its present name from Dwight D. Eisenhower, in honor of his father and grandson, both named David. The Catoctin Mountain Park does not indicate the location of Camp David on park maps due to privacy and security concerns, although it can be seen
Military career of Dwight D. Eisenhower Military career of Dwight D. Eisenhower The military career of Dwight D. Eisenhower encompassed over forty six years of active service. Entering the United States Military Academy in June 1911, Eisenhower had a "spectacular" 1912 football touchdown praised by the "New York Herald". The week after sharing a tackle of Jim Thorpe , Eisenhower's sports career ended with a severe knee injury. Eisenhower graduated in 1915 ranked 61st in a class of 164. The risk, however, that the football injury would cause the government to later have to give Eisenhower a medical discharge and pension, almost caused the army to