Answer by Michael Giorgione, author of Inside Camp David, on Quora:
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Originally called “Shangri-La” by President Roosevelt, U.S. Navy Sailors from the presidential yacht were used to staff the camp during FDR’s visits. The sailors came from the presidential yacht and because the yacht could not be used for security purposes during the war years. President Roosevelt saw fit to employ them in this manner...

Rear Admiral Michael Giorgione will discuss and sign his book Inside Camp David. Giorgione, CEC, USN (Ret.), graduated from the US Naval Academy in 1981 and served for twenty-nine years on active duty in the Navy Civil Engineer Corps. As well as serving as the Commander of Camp David from 1999 to 2001, Giorgione has worked under the White House Military Office (WHMO), the organization that also includes Air Force One, Marine One, the Military Aides, and other White House Military units. This event is free and open to the public. Reserved seating is available when the book is pre-ordered from Warwick's for the event. Only books purchased from Warwick's will be signed.
When: Wednesday, October 25,
​7:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m.
Where: Warwick's Bookstore
7812 Girard Avenue, San Diego, 92037

BY JOHN WILKENS
Camp David is a name known to many Americans, but what happens there isn't. The Coronado author, a retired Navy rear admiral, pulls back the curtain on his time at the presidential retreat under President Bill Clinton and George W. Bush. 6 p.m. Oct. 24, 6 p.m. Coronado Library, 640 Orange Ave. Free. Via Bay Books: (619) 435-0070 or baybookscoronado.com. Also, Oct. 25 at 7:30 p.m. at Warwick's.

TOWN&COUNTRY BY KATIE GLUECK
For Ronald Reagan, the Camp David presidential retreat was a refuge, a secluded enclave that offered the first family “a sense of liberation” far from the Washington spotlight. Franklin Delano Roosevelt called it his Shangri-La. But for Donald Trump—well, it’s no Bedminster, New Jersey...