... is in the Catoctin Mountains – part of the Appalachian chain – and about 60 miles from Washington DC. Opened in 1938 as a camp for federal government agents and their families, it was originally known as Hi–Catoctin. It was first used as a presidential retreat in 1942 by F. D. Roosevelt, who renamed it Shangri–La; the current name was introduced in 1953 by Dwight D. Eisenhower after his grandson, Dwight David Eisenhower II (born in 1948, and known as David). David Eisenhower is married to Julie, the younger daughter of Richard Nixon.
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