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
USS Dwight D. Eisenhower 2018, is in the steel cutting and fabrication stages of construction.. The exact date of the ship's inactivation and decommissioning will likely depend on many factors, including Defense Department funding considerations. "Dwight D. Eisenhower" has earned a number of awards, including the Battle "E" in 1979, 1980, 1981, 1985, 1990, 1998, 1999, 2006 and 2012 as the most battle efficient carrier in the Atlantic Fleet. In 1999, she won the Marjorie Sterrett Battleship Fund Award for the Atlantic Fleet. USS Dwight D. Eisenhower USS "Dwight D. Eisenhower" (CVN-69) (known informally as ""Ike"") is a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier currently in service