Camp David, the secluded presidential retreat nestled in Maryland’s Catoctin Mountains, began as a New Deal conservation project and evolved into a symbol of American diplomacy and presidential leisure. What started as FDR’s sinus-friendly hideaway became a Cold War-era strategic bunker a
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