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Camp David Off The Map

April 5, 2017 – 10:16 pm

In 1942 FDR converted Hi-Catoctin in Maryland to serve as a presidential retreat. Roosevelt entertained Churchill there. Truman introduced his cronies from the Pendergast Gang to high society, Eisenhower conferred with the Soviet leader within the confines. Kennedy accepted Eisenhower’s advice at the camp. Where LBJ made war plans. Nixon did the same. Ford enjoyed […]

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Just Like That

June 20, 2012 – 11:14 pm

v=rhu-YgCyPz4 Those that don’t remember history are doomed to not remember the past. Forget the part about mistakes, because many fools think that knowing the past permits the attempt to succeed where others have failed in a horrible fashion. On 6 October 1981 Egypt’s Sadat was attending a ceremony celebrating his army’s triumphant crossing of […]

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