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Established as Shangri-La by FDR in 1942, 143-acre Camp David evolved from rustic retreat to state-of-the-art luxury lodge with snowmobiles, bikes, archery, shuffleboard, volleyball, softball, skeet shooting, bomb shelter, gift shop. Cabins have TV and VCR. Security won't allow cameras. Fearing getting caught in a fire, wheelchair-bound FDR designed a hinged wall in his cabin to collapse into a ramp leading out. President Truman removed trees and bushes near the main cabin to improve the view. Camp David, renamed by President Eisenhower for his first grandson, is in Northern Maryland's Catoctin Mountains. At his wife's request Eisenhower named its guest cabins after local trees. Eisenhower built a 3-hole golf course behind Camp David's main cabin, named Aspen for his wife's home state Colorado. Eisenhower, first to arrive by helicopter, made Camp David accessible in winter. President Kennedy installed a jungle-gym for his children and a horse ring for daughter Caroline. Like President Nixon, President Johnson learned bowling at Hickory Cabin's lanes, trying to improve his public image. Nixon installed a heated swimming pool outside Aspen, over Eisenhower's bomb shelter. President Ford sat for a rare TV interview at Camp David, trying unsuccessfully to downplay its luxury. President Carter stocked Camp David's creek with fish. President Reagan restored riding trails Nixon paved over, borrowing National Park Service horses. President Bush dedicated Camp David's chapel, built by Reagan with a 1970s look. President Clinton held a much-ridiculed New Age-style retreat for White House staff and used Camp David's private roads and lack of press to teach his daughter Chelsea to drive.

CHAPPAQUA NY Secret Service agents armed with M&Ms and Snickers fended off Spiderella, Ice Wolf, the Headless Horseman and other extortionists besieging President and Mrs. Clinton's home with cries of "Trick or treat!" Halloween went smoothly on Old House Lane as Secret Service agents at the gate handled the customary duties.

1900 AMERICAN NUMBERS

PBS book America 1900. In 1900 the United States had 45 states. Capitol Hill had 175 phones. NUMBER OF:

hands President Wm McKinley shook at a New Year's Day open house: 3354
slippers First Lady Ida McKinley knitted for charity: 3500
White House guards on duty at night: 1
secretaries: 11
interns: 0

PRESIDENT CLINTON'S BOOK BAG Summer Vacation 1999

Last Patrician: Bobby Kennedy & the End of American Aristocracy 
   - Michael Knox Beran
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly: A Memoir of Life in Death 
   - Jean Dominique-Bauby
Waves of Rancor: Tuning in the Radical Right 
   - Robert Hilliard and Michael Keith
Against the Gods: The Remarkable Story of Risk - Peter Bernstein
Guns, Germs and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies - Jared Diamond
A Clearing in the Distance: Frederick Law Olmstead 
America in the 19th Century - Witold Rybczynski
Memoirs of Hadrian - Margaret Younceman

*** FICTION
Cold Hit - Linda Farstein
Crossing to Safety - Wallace Stegner
Just Revenge - Alan Dershowitz
Prayers for Rain - Dennis Lehane