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.
Camp David, from FDR through Obama. President Richard Nixon looks out of a window November 22, 1972 at Camp David, Md. Camp David has been a weekend refuge for presidents since 1942, when Franklin D. Roosevelt decided he needed to stay close to the capital during wartime while still escaping Washington's oppressive summer heat.