Polling for the 2017 Readerâs Choice Awards took place between Dec. 25, 2016 and Jan. 1, 2017.
It was founded by President Franklin D. Roosevelt as Shangri-La and later renamed Camp David after Dwight Eisenhower's grandson, David Eisenhower. It was founded by President Franklin D. Roosevelt as Shangri-La and later renamed Camp David after Dwight Eisenhower's grandson, David Eisenhower. President Roosevelt called the Camp Shangri-La after the mountain kingdom in James Hilton's book Lost Horizon. It was renamed Camp David in 1953 by President Eisenhower in honor of his grandson.
The Camp David accords was the first Israeli-Arab peace deal. 1  The Camp David accords, signed in the United States in September 1978 by Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin and Egyptian President Anwar Sadat, was the first peace deal between Israel and an Arab state.