President Bush and Afghan President Hamid Karzai are wrapping up a two-day meeting at Camp David.
It ignored Camp David while seeking strategic consensus in the Middle East, and it traced almost all-global turmoil to Moscow and Havana.
One of the visitors to Camp David last week put it this way: "We've got to stop crying and start sweating, stop talking and start walking, stop cursing and start praying."
The President will then spend the weekend at his Camp David retreat in Maryland.
The two leaders will retire to Camp David for informal discussions.
The former president said Barney was a "fierce armadillo hunter" whose favorite activity at Camp David was chasing golf balls on the chipping green.
Bush, who uses his rare Camp David invitations to flatter foreign leaders with the impression of intimacy, has made Lula key to his strategy to counter the influence of Venezuelan President Hugo Chá vez and to expand the production of ethanol and other alternative fuels.
The U.S. and South Korean leaders met at the presidential retreat at Camp David.
Bill Clinton got Yitzhak Rabin and Yasser Arafat to shake hands on the White House lawn, but no peace, and no prize, followed the unhappy Camp David summit of 2000.
Last weekend Mubarak and Bush met at Camp David to discuss the Mideast crisis.
Lee says North Korea will be a key topic in his talks with President Bush at the Camp David retreat in Maryland.
So Mr Indyk thinks that Arafat arrived at Camp David determined to avoid being cornered.
Even constricted by wartime,the First Couple managed to spend nearly every weekend at Camp David, where they usually arrive by mid-afternoon Friday, often accompanied by National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice.
In the context of the current conflict, Camp David is commonly a reference to last summer's failed attempt by President Bill Clinton to achieve a similarly historic final settlement between Israel and the Palestinians.
The Fifth Arab-Israel War and Camp David Mark II
On August15, 1971, President Nixon, after a secret meeting at Camp David with his economic advisers, closed the gold window and effectively ended the gold standard.
We passed up Renaissance Weekend again that year so that our family could spend the last New Years at Camp David.
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