By Michael Giorgione
A peaceable mountaintop surroundings, crucially faraway from the consistent scrutiny of the click, Camp David has served as either a domain of serious international relations and remarkable tranquility. it's the place President and Mrs. Reagan rode horses during the mountains, the place Gerald Ford may take a second to leap on a trampoline along with his daughter, the place Nixon rode shotgun with Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev, and the place Jimmy Carter might locate the final word flight-sledding-only to damage his clavicle weeks prior to the top of his tenure. below the strain and pressure, you'll fail to remember that these occupying the top seat within the land are, on the finish of the day, human yet at Camp David, we ultimately get to determine those leaders at their so much susceptible, their so much unguarded, and as their such a lot actual selves.
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