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The first insider consideration, timed to the 75th anniversary of Camp David Camp David is North american diplomacy's secret weapon. The house of the 2015 GCC and 2012 G8 summits, the 2000 Peacefulness Summit, and the 1978 Peacefulness Accords, the camp has played out a vital role in American history within the last century, inviting presidents and international leaders alike to converge, converse, and, perhaps most of all, relax. A peaceful mountaintop establishing crucially removed from the constant scrutiny of the press, Camp David has offered as both a site of critical diplomacy and unmatched tranquility. It really is where Leader and Mrs. Reagan rode horses through the mountains, where Gerald Ford could take a moment to join a trampoline with his little princess, where Nixon rode shotgun with Soviet Leader Leonid Brezhnev, and where Jimmy Carter could find the best flight-sledding - only to break his clavicle two weeks before the end of his tenure. Under the pressure and stress, it is easy to ignore that those occupying the highest seat in the land are, by the end of the day, individuals, but at Camp David, we finally get to see these leaders at their most vulnerable, their most unguarded, and as their most true selves.
