Even David Eisenhower: W. Dale Nelson, The President Is at Camp David (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1995).
“But it’s so spooky”: Author interview with former CO Chuck Howe, December 29, 2016.
After FDR’s death: William M. Rigdon and James Derieux, White House Sailor (New York: Doubleday, 1962).
“It’s a mystical”: Author interview with former CO Mike O’Connor, December 29, 2016.
“Without Camp David”: Ronald Reagan, An American Life (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1990).
“sense of liberation”: Ibid.
“I’m free”: Author interview with former CO Mike O’Connor.
“When the president”: Ibid.
“Look,” Reagan said: Nancy Reagan, My Turn: The Memoirs of Nancy Reagan (New York: Random House, 1989).
Apples loved cigarettes: Author interview with former CO John Dettbarn, January 3, 2017.
“Anything can happen”: Author interview with former CO Keith Autry, January 19, 2017.
“If I’d dropped”: Author interview with former CO Chuck Howe.
“What color green?”: Author interview with the current Camp David historian and Navy chaplain, December 14, 2016.
“I look out”: Rigdon, White House Sailor.
one other change: Author interview with former CO John Dettbarn.
“For me, one of”: Nancy Reagan, My Turn.
“Its interior is simple”: George W. Bush, Decision Points (New York: Crown, 2010).
“Commander, you’ve got to”: Author interview with former CO Bill Waters, January 19, 2017.
“When the president attends”: Author interview with the current Camp David historian and Navy chaplain.
“there are no tourists”: Scott Benjamin, “Q&A: Laura Bush on Camp David,” CBS, December 24, 2005.
“To me, Camp David”: Claudia Alta “Lady Bird” Johnson, Lady Bird Johnson: A White House Diary (New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1970).
The origin of the Catoctin Mountains site: Joel D. Treese, “Hoover’s Retreat: Rapidan Camp,” White House Historical Association.
An article in the New York Times: Warren Weaver Jr., “The Camp That Was Hoover’s,” New York Times, August 14, 1987.
“This is my”: Conrad L. Wirth, Parks, Politics, and the People (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1980).
There was no wheelchair: Ibid.
During the construction: William M. Rigdon and James Derieux, White House Sailor (New York: Doubleday, 1962).
“Well, Admiral”: Ibid.
The Navy likes to: Ibid.
He liked to take: Ibid.
When there were guests: Grace Tully, F.D.R. My Boss (Chicago: Peoples Book Club, 1949).
Recalling a typical: William D. Hassett, Off the Record with FDR, 1942–1945 (Crows Nest, Australia: George Allen and Unwin, 1960).
“To give you”: George Wireman, Gateway to the Mountains (Hagerstown, MD: Hagerstown Bookbinding and Print Company, 1969).
Winston Churchill had: Rigdon, White House Sailor.
“You know, one works”: Doris Kearns Goodwin, No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1994).
“It’s fun to be”: Letter from FDR to Churchill on the occasion of Churchill’s sixtieth birthday.
Mrs. Truman had invited: Rigdon, White House Sailor.
“Petitioner states”: Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Library.
“I am glad”: Rigdon, White House Sailor.
“I don’t plan”: John F. Kennedy, press conference in the State Department auditorium, February 8, 1961.
A few weeks into his presidency: Claudia Alta “Lady Bird” Johnson, Lady Bird Johnson: A White House Diary (New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1970).
“I see you’ve kept”: Author’s journal.
One consistent feature: Author interview with former CO Jim Broaddus, February 7, 2017.
“He’s an urban”: Juliet Eilperin, “For President Obama, Camp David Often Ranks as the Venue of Last Resort,” Washington Post, March 20, 2015.
“G8 tends to”: Obama statement explaining change of venue from Chicago to Camp David.
“I was a reluctant”: Author interview with former CO Bob McLean, January 18, 2017.
“Booster!”: Author interview with former CO Bob Reuning, January 6, 2017.
“There must have been”: Author’s journal.
“If the president speaks”: Author interview with former CO Wendy Halsey, December 30, 2016.
What the hell: Author’s journal.
it had been fifty-two : Author interview with former CO Chuck Howe, December 29, 2016.
Mike—the toilet: Author interview with former CO Mike Berry, February 9, 2017.
Berry wasn’t overly: Ibid.
“Didn’t your predecessor”: Author interview with former CO Joe Camp, December 30, 2016.
Dettbarn lost his: Author interview with former CO John Dettbarn, January 3, 2017.
“My steps, my ice”: Ibid.
Kennedy liked the pool: Author interview with former CO Chuck Howe.
Heather Wishart was: Author diary and account of Wishart.
“The television isn’t”: Author interview with former CO Chuck Howe.
Rispoli, who is color-blind : Author interview with former CO Jim Rispoli, January 18, 2017.
CO Mike Berry was delighted: Author interview with former CO Mike Berry.
There’s an addendum: Author interview with former CO Bill Waters, January 19, 2017.
By the time Mike Berry: Author interview with former CO Mike Berry, February 9, 2017.
Joe Camp’s two sons: Author interview with former CO Joe Camp, December 30, 2016.
My successor, Mike O’Connor: Author interview with former CO Mike O’Connor, December 29, 2016.
“It was like being”: Author interview with former CO Russ Rang, February 10, 2017.
“I was just wondering”: Author interview with former CO Chuck Howe, December 29, 2016.
“She talked to us”: Author interview with Hank Howe.
“Can I stay”: Author interview with former CO Bob Reuning, January 6, 2017.
Wendy Halsey’s daughter: Author interview with former CO Wendy Halsey, December 30, 2016.
Hank Howe’s friends: Author interview with Hank Howe.
“Do you live”: Author interview with former CO Wendy Halsey.
as CO John Heckmann observed: Author interview with former CO John Heckmann, February 10, 2017.
“Julia knew how”: Author interview with former CO Mike O’Connor.
“These kids are not”: Author interview with former CO Jim Rispoli, January 18, 2017.
“I thought my life”: Author interview with Hank Howe.
“Freeze! Freeze!”: Author interview with former CO Mike Berry.
“Do you know where”: Ibid.
Wendy Halsey’s thirteen-year-old son: Author interview with former CO Wendy Halsey.
Jackie Kennedy made: Author interview with former CO Chuck Howe.
“Where are my”: Author interview with former CO Mike O’Connor.
During the first month: Ibid.
“Do you want”: Author interview with former CO Wendy Halsey.
“What’s wrong”: Author interview with former CO Mike O’Connor.
Lyndon Johnson was: Author interview with former CO Chuck Howe.
Pat Nixon loved: Author interview with former CO John Dettbarn, January 3, 2017.
One day while the Reagans: Author interview with former CO Mike Berry.
The Heckmanns were: Author interview with former CO John Heckmann.
“That single two-minute”: Author interview with Master Chief Joe Maioriello, December 14, 2016.
“his congenial attitude”: Author interview with former CO Bob Reuning.
“If you want”: Presidential Pet Museum, www.presidentialpetmuseum.com.
Reagan’s Cavalier: Ibid.
The Eisenhowers were forced: Ibid.
The dogs were in: Ibid.
CO Howe recalled: Author interview with former CO Chuck Howe.
Nikita Khrushchev gifted Kennedy: Traphes Bryant with Frances Spatz Leighton, Dog Days at the White House (New York: Macmillan, 1975).
President Johnson’s beagles: Presidential Pet Museum.
At the time, the CO family: Author interview with former CO John Dettbarn.
Bush 41’s English: Barbara Bush, Millie’s Book (New York: William Morrow, 1990).
“My dog Millie”: Presidential Pet Museum.
“This is Sam’s”: Author interview with former CO Mike Berry.
Russ Rang’s family: Author interview with former CO Russ Rang.
Buddy achieved: Hillary Rodham Clinton, Dear Socks, Dear Buddy: Kids’ Letters to the First Pets (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1998).
“Are you confident”: Author interview with former CO Bob Reuning.
Vice president Dick Cheney: Dick Cheney, In My Time: A Personal and Political Memoir (New York: Simon and Schuster, 2011).
“Barney was by”: President Bush writing on the occasion of Barney’s death in 2013.
“How’re you doing”: Author interview with former CO Bob Reuning, January 6, 2017.
“It was a bit”: Ray L’Heureux, Inside Marine One: Four U.S. Presidents, One Proud Marine, and the World’s Most Amazing Helicopter (New York: St. Martin’s, 2014).
“On the last hill”: Author interview with former CO Mike O’Connor, December 29, 2016.
“We love this”: Author interview with former CO Mike Berry, February 9, 2017.
“I don’t want”: Ibid.
Jimmy Carter had: Sarah Pileggi, “Jimmy Carter Runs into the Wall,” Sports Illustrated, September 24, 1979.
One day he picked: Author interview with former CO Mike Berry.
When the president got: Author interview with former CO Keith Autry, January 19, 2017.
“The master chief”: Author interview with former CO Wendy Halsey, December 30, 2016.
The highlight of: Author interview with former CO Russ Rang, February 10, 2017.
By nature, those: George A. Baker III, The Making of a Marine-Scholar: Leading and Learning in the Bear Pit (Bloomington, IN: iUniverse, 2008).
Relaxing was not: Ibid.
“The president wasn’t”: Author interview with former CO John Dettbarn, January 3, 2017.
“I’m down here”: Author interview with former CO Jim Rispoli, January 18, 2017.
Weather permitting: Author interview with former CO Mike Berry.
“Oh, please forgive”: Author interview with former CO John Dettbarn.
“Whenever I could”: Author interview with former CO Keith Autry.
“I have a rare”: Jimmy Carter, press conference, May 29, 1979.
Dad gave his daughter: Author interview with former CO Russ Rang.
“Outside of golf carts”: Hillary Rodham Clinton, Living History (New York: Simon and Schuster, 2003).
“You don’t have to”: Author interview with former CO Bob Reuning.
“How do you like”: Ibid.
“Where is everybody”: Ibid.
“ ‘Heads up’”: Author interview with former CO Russ Rang.
“Is it okay”: Author interview with former CO Jim Rispoli.
“Terminator arriving”: Author interview with former CO Mike Berry.
“Commander, do you”: Author interview with former CO John Dettbarn.
“Did you hear”: Author interview with former CO Jim Rispoli.
“How I love”: Barbara Bush, Barbara Bush: A Memoir (New York: Scribner, 1994).
“My God”: Grace Tully, F.D.R. My Boss (Chicago: Peoples Book Club, 1949).
“was one expression”: Blanche Wiesen Cook, Eleanor Roosevelt, vol. 3, The War Years and After, 1939–1962 (New York: Viking, 2016).
Lady Bird Johnson confessed: Claudia Alta “Lady Bird” Johnson, Lady Bird Johnson: A White House Diary (New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1970).
The Reagans relied: Author interview with former CO Mike Berry.
“The Camp David cooks”: Scott Benjamin, “Q&A: Laura Bush on Camp David,” CBS, December 24, 2005.
“We feel bad”: Author interview with former CO Jim Rispoli.
“the twelve days”: Author interview with former CO Mike Berry.
“Skipper, it’s the president”: Author interview with former CO Mike O’Connor.
One year he picked: Author interview with former CO John Heckmann.
“I’ll take over”: Author interview with former CO Mike Berry.
an invitation from President Eisenhower: Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Library documents, September 25–27, 1959.
“It’s so beautiful”: Rosalynn Carter, First Lady from Plains (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1984).
Who should enter: Ibid.
“When the cooks”: Ibid.
National security adviser: Zbigniew Brzezinski, Power and Principle: Memoirs of the National Security Adviser, 1977–1981 (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1993).
“had not been designed”: Jimmy Carter, Keeping Faith: Memories of a President (New York: Bantam, 1982).
“The meeting was mean”: Rosalynn Carter, First Lady from Plains.
“Everybody at the dinner”: Ibid.
The children were active: Brzezinski, Power and Principle.
That night Carter had trouble: Jimmy Carter, Keeping Faith.
“What I remember”: Brzezinski, Power and Principle.
Earlier, photographs had: Jimmy Carter, Keeping Faith.
“I hope that”: Clinton announcement, July 5, 2000.
#8211;44 Bob obtained: Author interview with former chaplain Bob Williams.
“We worked day”: Madeleine Albright, Madam Secretary: A Memoir (New York: Harper Perennial, 2003).
“My two-year-old”: Ibid.
“I am not a great man”: Bill Clinton, My Life (New York: Knopf, 2004).
G8 “made my tour”: Author interview with former CO Wendy Halsey, December 30, 2016.
Thurmont hung: “Hundreds of Protesters Gathered in Thurmont; Police Close Main Street,” Frederick News-Post, May 19, 2012.
“Each time I”: Author interview with former CO Wendy Halsey.
“Actually, we made”: Ibid.
“Do you know”: Ibid.
“Finally, a call”: Grace Tully, F.D.R. My Boss (Chicago: Peoples Book Club, 1949).
As Nancy Gibbs: Nancy Gibbs and Michael Duffy, The Presidents Club: Inside the World’s Most Exclusive Fraternity (New York: Simon and Schuster, 2012).
Lady Bird often woke: Claudia Alta “Lady Bird” Johnson, Lady Bird Johnson: A White House Diary (New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1970).
In an obituary: Tom Wicker, “From Afar, an Indomitable Man, an Incurable Loneliness,” New York Times, April 24, 1994.
“When Nixon went”: Bill Gulley and Mary Ellen Reese, Breaking Cover (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1980).
“he likes to be”: Ibid.
Bob Haldeman and John Ehrlichman: George A. Baker III, The Making of a Marine-Scholar: Leading and Learning in the Bear Pit (Bloomington, IN: iUniverse, 2008).
“Haldeman was a tough guy”: Author interview with former CO John Dettbarn, January 3, 2017.
“In the mountains”: Richard Reeves, President Nixon: Alone in the White House (New York: Simon and Schuster, 2007).
“Reagan is not one”: Kenneth T. Walsh, From Mount Vernon to Crawford: A History of Presidents and Their Retreats (New York: Hyperion, 2005).
The only person: Alex Larzelere, Witness to History: White House Diary of a Military Aide to President Richard Nixon (Bloomington, IN: AuthorHouse, 2009).
On August 8, 1974: Gulley and Reese, Breaking Cover.
In spite of Jimmy Carter’s success: William Leuchtenburg, In the Shadow of FDR: From Harry Truman to Barack Obama, 4th ed. (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2009).
George Bush 41 agonized: George H. W. Bush Presidential Library.
“I remember we”: Author interview with Hank Howe.
As he watched: Author interview with former CO Chuck Howe, December 29, 2016.
“My parents were”: Author interview with Hank Howe.
Jackie and the children: Author interview with former CO Chuck Howe.
“I feel strangely free”: Johnson, Lady Bird Johnson.
The morning of September 11: Author interview with former CO Mike O’Connor, December 29, 2016.
“The comforting song”: Condoleezza Rice, No Higher Honor: A Memoir of My Years in Washington (New York: Crown, 2011).
When it came time: Author interview with former CO Mike O’Connor.
Elizabeth O’Connor had gotten close: Ibid.
“Bad news”: Ibid.
“In the skies”: George W. Bush, statement to the nation, February 1, 2003.
“Those also serve”: Julia Robb, “Service Took Seabee to Camp David,” Frederick News-Post, November 11, 2002.
“These were young kids”: Author interview with former CO Bob McLean, January 18, 2017.
CO Berry recalled: Author interview with former CO Mike Berry, February 9, 2017.
Guard duty can be lonely: The 8th & I Reunion Association is an organization of Marines who served at Marine Barracks Washington, DC.
In May 1989: Keith Snyder, “Secret Service Probe Crash at Camp David,” Morning Herald, May 12, 1989; also author interview with former CO Mike Berry.
To work at Camp David: Author interview with former CO Mike Berry.
I had a similar: Author’s journal and interview with Heather Wishart.
After a visit to Idaho: Author interview with former CO John Heckmann.
CO Joe Camp shared: Author interview with former CO Joe Camp, December 30, 2016.
“The biggest difference”: Author interview with former CO Mike Berry.
CO Autry acknowledged the stress: Author interview with former CO Keith Autry, January 19, 2017.
On occasion, though: Author interview with former CO Mike Berry.
In January 2007: Author interview with former CO John Heckmann.
Also in the context: Grace Wyler, “How Barack Obama Prepared for Tonight’s Foreign Policy Debate,” Business Insider, October 22, 2012.
When Chuck Howe was CO: Author interview with former CO Chuck Howe, December 29, 2016.
When Wendy Halsey: Author interview with former CO Wendy Halsey, December 30, 2016.
“When the leaves”: Author interview with former CO Joe Camp.
According to the late Thurmont historian: George Wireman, Gateway to the Mountains (Hagerstown, MD: Hagerstown Bookbinding and Print Company, 1969).
Kenneth Plummer: Author interview with former CO Mike Berry, February 9, 2017.
“I prayed that God”: Ronald Reagan, An American Life (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1990).
“Well, I think”: Author interview with former CO Mike Berry.
“The weather was dreary”: Diary of Dee Berry.
“In many ways”: Author interview with former chaplain Bob Williams, January 16, 2017.
Months after President Obama: Amy Sullivan, “The Obamas Find a Church Home—Away from Home,” Time, June 29, 2009.
“Jackie Kennedy Onassis”: Hillary Rodham Clinton, Living History (New York: Simon and Schuster, 2003).
“He had a marvelous”: Author interview with former chaplain Bob Williams.
Once when Arnold Schwarzenegger: Author interview with former CO Mike Berry.
Again, everyone was expected: Ibid.
John Heckmann’s daughters: Author interview with former CO John Heckmann.
“The question was when”: Author interview with former CO Bob McLean, January 18, 2017.
“Camp David is a far more intimate”: Laura Bush, Spoken from the Heart (New York: Scribner, 2010).
For example, while Khrushchev received: Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Library.
In his book Silent Missions: Vernon Walters, Silent Missions (New York: Doubleday, 1978).
“That’s a way”: Nixon tapes, Richard Nixon Presidential Library.
“Anything you suggest”: Ibid.
“Diplomacy is not”: Richard Nixon, RN: The Memoirs of Richard Nixon (New York: Grosset and Dunlap, 1978).
“Now, there are”: Nixon tapes, Richard Nixon Presidential Library.
After Reagan won: Charles Moore, Margaret Thatcher: The Authorized Biography, vol. 2 (London: Allen Lane, 2015).
As they passed Cedar: Author interview with former CO Jim Rispoli, January 18, 2017.
“He was at his”: Margaret Thatcher, The Downing Street Years, 1979–1990 (New York: HarperCollins, 1993).
The visit of Mikhail and Raisa Gorbachev: Author interview with former CO Mike Berry, February 9, 2017.
The press was at camp: Ibid.
Barbara Bush and Naina Yeltsin: Barbara Bush, Barbara Bush: A Memoir (New York: Scribner, 1994).
In spite of Putin’s opposition: Author interview with former CO Bob McLean, January 18, 2017.
President Putin had forgotten: Ibid.
“For decades, when”: President George W. Bush, statement to press, September 27, 2003.
“I learned a lot”: Amy Chozick, “George Bush Recalls Putin’s ‘My Dog Is Stronger’ Style of Diplomacy,” New York Times, July 10, 2015.
In February 1970: Author interview with former CO John Dettbarn, January 3, 2017.
The day before the barbecue: Author interview with former CO Bill Waters, January 19, 2017.
As she recalled in her memoir: Laura Bush, Spoken from the Heart.
When Blair came: Author interview with former CO Mike O’Connor, December 29, 2016.
“not to avoid”: President Bush’s remarks to the press following discussions with Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi of Japan, June 30, 2001.
“My watch was appraised”: Author interview with former CO Bob Reuning, January 6, 2017.
The supply officer lighting: Author interview with former CO Russ Rang, February 10, 2017.
Berry met Colin Powell’s helicopter: Author interview with former CO Mike Berry.
“Here I go”: Ibid.
Jacob Weller, a blacksmith: George Wireman, Gateway to the Mountains (Hagerstown, MD: Hagerstown Bookbinding and Print Company, 1969).
As Wireman explained: Ibid.
One, an elder: Almost Blue Mountain City: The History of Thurmont, Maryland, produced by Christopher Haugh, 2014.
Jackie Kennedy helped bring: Wireman, Gateway to the Mountains.
Until it closed: Brian Shane, “The Cozy: Longtime Restaurant Near Camp David Closes,” USA Today, August 8, 2014.
At its peak: Wireman, Gateway to the Mountains.
“Wire service reporters”: Helen Thomas, Front Row at the White House: My Life and Times (New York: Scribner, 1999).
Joe Reynolds: Joe Reynolds, “Trout and Tradition,” Field and Stream (May 1985).
“Everyone made a mad dash”: Thea Rosenbaum, No Place for a Lady (Bloomington, IN: AuthorHouse, 2015).
CO Reuning marveled: Author interview with former CO Bob Reuning, January 6, 2017.
“Look, George”: Author interview with former CO Mike Berry, February 9, 2017.
In her memoir, Barbara Bush: Barbara Bush, Barbara Bush: A Memoir (New York: Scribner, 1994).
When it was time for the president: Author interview with former CO Joe Camp, December 30, 2016.
According to Lady Bird: Claudia Alta “Lady Bird” Johnson, Lady Bird Johnson: A White House Diary (New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1970).
“The Fords made one”: W. Dale Nelson, The President Is at Camp David (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1995).
“I was torn”: Rosalynn Carter, First Lady from Plains (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1984).
Four years later: Richard Nixon, RN: The Memoirs of Richard Nixon (New York: Grosset and Dunlap, 1978).
“How’d you like”: Author interview with former CO Mike O’Connor, December 29, 2016.
“My commute took”: Author interview with former CO Mike Berry.
“The last time Bush was at church”: Author interview with former CO Bob McLean, January 18, 2017.
“The most unique”: Author interview with former CO Bob Reuning.
“The end came up quickly”: Author interview with former CO Russ Rang, February 10, 2017.
Ronald Reagan expressed: Ronald Reagan, An American Life (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1990).
“There are resorts”: Author interview with former CO Mike Berry, February 9, 2017.
“Granddad, an excellent cook”: W. Dale Nelson, The President Is at Camp David (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1995).
CO Howe’s lasting memory: Author interview with former CO Chuck Howe, December 29, 2016.
“You could be sure”: Pierre Salinger, P.S., a Memoir (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1995).
“Only when you”: Nixon’s farewell words to staff.
everyman’s rest spot: Kenneth T. Walsh, From Mount Vernon to Crawford (New York: Hyperion, 2005).
“If it weren’t for”: Ronald Reagan, An American Life.
CO Autry recalled: Author interview with former CO Keith Autry, January 19, 2017.
“It’s where a president”: Walsh, From Mount Vernon to Crawford.
“In my mind, the value”: Author interview with former CO John Heckmann.
“Any tour at Camp David”: Author interview with former CO John Dettbarn, January 3, 2017.
“Hey, Commander”: Author interview with former CO Mike O’Connor, December 29, 2016.