Leaders to converse and most importantly perhaps relax. Located deep in the woods, it is the ultimate behind the scenes venue of our imagination. We are thrilled this evening to be joined by the admiral who served 29 years on active duty in the United States navy retiring in 2010. Serving as the commander of camp david for president bill clinton and george w. Bush working under the White House Military Office the organization responsible for air force one, marine one and military aid. His book inside camp david is the first inside account of camp david and is available for purchase following the presentation. So now please join me in welcoming the admiral george young. [applause] thank you. Its a wonderful treat to be here thank you for putting this event together. She did a great job please thank laura rosenberg. [applause] i have some family and guests i want to introduce so you understand whos come here to be with me tonight first my parents, mary blue and sunny. My wonderful sister and her friends. Raise your hand, thank you. My cousins son, and his friend suzanne. Raise your hand. [applause] my nephew is coming in from baltimore said they will be eventually. Heather smith. If you read the book even know about heather because shes the mayor about the broken line and that the incident as a officer at camp david as a thank you for being here with her daughter, claire. One of my classmates and dave frank is in the crowd tonight. One of my business colleagues and president of the national gas product, thank you for being here and from the Memorial Scholarship association, an Organization Im very involved with m we have the captain retid and we have the Consulting Group and tracy and her husband thank you for being here, great to have you. Before we get into it but give you some insight about writing a book that i realized the hard way. When you are a consultan consulg on your own everyone is already suspicious of what you do. One day when you are writing a book you get a very concerning second look. What are you up to . Im writing a book. Michelle is my wife and would normally be with me on this trip. Shes back at home dealing with a chronic back pain. I will talk about her in my presentation. But when you get comfortable telling people you are writing a book that will get you very differently and expect you to wear a jacket. They send you pics for christmas gifts. Once you get confident in writing a book you kind of look at everything as a book to taking that hammered the nail approach i didnt even question i said absolutely lets go so we go to the theater and about 30 seconds and im filming in my pocket. What are you doing are we in the right theater are you sure, why is the story opening in sacramento. This isnt about lady byrd johnson. While thats why i came i thought that it was about the politicians. Not the case. Different movie. I started treating everything like this but you get used to it. Its been a great honor not only to serve the nation but to come before you tonight and talk a bit about the story that began 19 years ago. I will explain a little bit of this history in a few minutes. In the navy command on becoming the Commanding Officer we have a change in command ceremony. That morning my wife and daughters give me this journal with a hand written note. We want you to write stories about camp david. Someday our children will be able to read. 19 years ago i thought thats cute okay maybe i will write something down and i did for president clinton, president bush i would write down what happened that weekend, never thought i would do anything with it, just a nice memoir. This is the day they handed me the journal. First rule about speaking in public i is to know your audien. Other than my family whos been to camp david, its fascinating. Some of you i know its your job. Almost invariably someone has been there or knows someone that has served the city you can fact check me as we go. They give me this book and journal and i keep notes and when i got interested in writing a book about two years ago the thing that i aced it was this event. This is all living officers that could make the trip in novembe november 2016 posted by the current commander under the obama administration. There could be a reunion of master chief said Commanding Officers and here we are altogether. The gently into my left, gray hair and blue shirt 91yearsold he lives in colorado wit withcalifornia. He told me about camp david and kind of became my mentor about what its all about and i will talk about the interesting experiences with the kennedys and johnsons later on and talk. When i heard all the ladies and gentlemen talkingentleman talkid the fact they had written stories over their time im thinking its kind of have to be. Knowing i was going to interview every single one of them and include their stories as well not just my stories but the stories in the revelations and insights of all of the officers that served there as well. So in my talk im going to take three approaches to talk about the history of camp david, why it is, talk about chapter six entitled gloomily century, talk about the loneliness of command were being in charge of some in and what it must be like with some tendencies and similarities and share some stories about my time during the years 1999 to 2001 with president clinton and president bush. This is an aerial photo of camp david you are looking down on the president s watch. President roosevelt 1942 loved going out on the president ial yacht banned by navy sailors. The photo from th on the right e potomac today its a public busy in the por port of Oakland California but she loved going out and getting away from the white house and during the years when it wasnt a good idea to go out on the water due to the threats i see he asked his staff can you please find me a place i can go away especially on the summers from the heat and humidity to deal with miasma into someplace i ca some place y the white house that i can use as my retreat. In the late 30s after the Hoover Administration and the new deal bring the country back to work after the depression he created part of the new deal with the Work Progress Administration and part of that was a civilian conservation corps. Much of their work was putting 18 to 35yearold man back to work with parks put, public roads plus putting money in reserve under the federal banking system. One of the camps was the recreational demonstration area located in maryland just north of frederick s. 15 and the staff found three locations in a nearby area and this was one of them. Roosevelt visited in july of 1942 and was enamored with it, it wasnt winterized at this point and it was stil was stille today remodeled over the years. He claimed to turn my shangri shangrila. Where did this term come from . He was quoting the novel lost horizon others a utopian society in a place of intrigue and again most people didnt know. We didnt have these great access tools we have today. He said this is my shangrila and he first visited in july of 1942 and continued to grow throughout the summer months both by himself with his guests and with winston churchill. The retreat today though is known as camp david and its a naval facility because roosevelt took the sailors off the president ial yacht and they went with him to be the stewards and caretakers and thats where the u. S. Department of the navy kind of inherited it. The command reports to the office they support the president moving him around the world including on air force one, marine one, the Helicopter Squadron at camp david, the agency int and the white house transportation agency, the white house medical unit, special programs etc. Etc. These are the uniformed personnel civilian men and women that support the presidency behind the scenes moving him around the world wherever he goes and engages with sodas and appropriated budget line in the Navy Appropriation to find and maintain camp david. But we know it as camp because why . Succeeding president roosevelt was president truman not greatly enamored. His successor president eisenhower came in and thought it was a bit pretentious and thought of closing it but kind of became enamored with it again the early trend of many president s with the facility. He decide decided maybe there ie utility even though i have my farm in gettysburg pennsylvania but he said i dont like the name said he remained at camp david grandson David Eisenhower, 12yearsold. David eisenhower today is about 70yearsold and recently retired from the university of pennsylvania history professor. I was introduced a few weeks ago and the gentleman that introduced me at David Eisenhower as a teachers assistant in graduate school so you never know whos sitting in the audience. The other thing he did his renamed all the cabins and took mainly eisenhowers state of colorado and named their cabin the president ial watch which it is today so virtually every building structure on the camp has aged the name. This is theater this is where the Commanding Officer lives and this is where i live. Back in the kennedy days it is the same structure its been remodeled and added on to. You are the only family inside the camp except on the weekends. You are the only family with two daughters in spite of the camp and maybe you have guests on the weekends. Weekends. Played it for interestinplay dat they can be difficult with security. One of those early challenges. The lonely sentry chapter 61 of my favorite in the book i talk about the loneliness of command and any time any of you have been in charge of something, a committee, it team cause sometimes the hard decisions you have to make and i look at what the president dealt wit with md my peers felt with being responsible for the upkeep. Upper left is the commander at the time going to do an inspection in spite of the hangar about 1800 feet of elevation from the ground level but if you look at the president and what they got out of camp david, i can see two purposes come upon a way to get away, rest and relax and recharge and a place to take administration or International Leaders to work diplomacy. P. Much most figure out a nice balance between the two. President obampresident obama ig room of aspen with a picture window behind him, president carter on the log next to the fish pond roosevelt put in an case of fire, he had a great fear of fire. President nixon looking out the same window president obama isnt on top, nixon wore anything but a coat and tie at camp david, supposed to relax but not his style and its interesting to read about his relationship with his staff. You can read about it and about how he fired haldeman and that living room with one hand shake the only thin time hes ever shg their hands and send them off ao very interesting use of the camp and very lonely sentry if you will. President bush talking on the phone in the president s office and then on the right, pulitzer prizewinning photo april of 1961 who remembers what was going on in maybe wit and maybes photo is all about . The bay of pigs created today like the introduction i find this incredibly humbled, maybe a desperate move but certainly a move that the young upstart democratic president called the old establishment military retiree general dwight David Eisenhower to camp david a place he knew better than kennedy did at this point and pretty much says what did i do wrong and eisenhower says i told you so, i told you we wouldve planned this and how to execute it, you messed it up and this is what happened. Think about this, what politician today anywhere would call on someone, one a predecessor of the opposite party and say how do you hope he. So a very humbling time i think in a classy move on both of their parts eisenhauer goes there for the day and they pulitzer prizewinning photograph was taken. President roosevelt and aspen, the stone hearth is so fair. Still there. Its a lot cleaner today. That is the fireplace inside of aspen, president truman driving himself in his convertible, one of the few times he was there and mentioned the president of churchill, president church of roosevelt smoking cigars, probably having some whiskey and a shout of cigar dust keeping mosquitoes away talking about the war and what the u. S. And Great Britain need to do. Important work getting done and president eisenhower marbling many times johnson at the bunker the ambassadors talking about the vietnam war and how to either continue or end it. Then another president or excuse me to the right president nixon, same log, same fish pond and of the book theres a stor there it the Lincoln Continental car that lincoln gets 2 and he gets in the drivers seat and motions him to get in the passenger seat and off they go down the hill. So with no security around them in great peril, two superpowers at the time almost wiped out in a chainlink fence. Little known moment that his camp david is about a lot of highs and lows and even though we have this saying you are in the world of the presidency are not of their world we are in their world briefly, we see them like people coming to see them to say hello and talk about is, whatever, but youre certainly not of their world and you have to remember that. These things happen all the time. President carter thought it was not necessary, thought it was a waste and it almost made him famous for the peace accord in israel. President reagans one of the few times he got a world leader principe and the first lady and their almost exclusively by themselves on the weekends. Hes visited over 500 times the most by any president and it truly was a place to get away from the white house, from the scrutiny from the press place to go and watch and recharge. President clinton, president bush talking from the cabin of his memoirs in the back or handwritten notes and photocopies president sent inviting them to holly to negotiate the camp david peace accords. President reagan started his address from camp david this is on the back patio, the main entertainment kevin, president obama in his office and then we see it continued for the use of diplomacy. The summit in 2012 was supposed to be held in chicago and if you recall we had a love of riots and demonstrations. So they said lets move it to camp david. There were some Great Stories about welcoming these World Leaders to camp for the weekend dealing with accommodating the personalities and the idiosyncrasies and learning quickly went do they want in their cabinet and what they dont. The bottom left is president bush with what is now called the council of the war after the 9 11 attacks assembling his staff at camp david to talk about americas response to the attacks and on the far right as presidenhaspresident trumps lasu can see the logo though he only been there five times and hes taken his staff and his cabinet to three or four of those times. I dont know that it will be his preferred place to rest were relax but i do see more convenient use this tag having brought an International Leader but there is great value and opportunity for that. And then the lighter moments, before walking their dog, the reagans, bottom left president george h. W. Bush Mikhail Gorbachev of the soviet union at the time. This incident is about horseshoes. They loved horseshoes and any recreational sport or game. They were walking the grounds and there was a regulation horseshoe pit and bush tells gorbachev what it is and he doesnt know and he throws the horseshoe and hits the ring for the first time. So seizing the moment, the staff take the horseshoe, make a plaque and give it to the present that night to give at dinner. Its these little personal moments and spirit of camp david. Its about a place in the woods which isnt fancy, very austere, good amenities but its basic cabins, no brass, polish, marble. Its where you bring people to the family room to talk about working together. Thats what i saw in my time there. Thoughbutpresident clinton sinn the church choir. He loved singing in the Church Choirs every saturday night he would get the music and every sunday morning show up and take his place in the church choir sitting in the front row we call this q1 and ther pew one, theref cart one, p1 and he takes his place. The music director talked a few weeks ago left after 17 years, wonderful jim demint, professor, he ran the program for 17 Years Services that camp. President eisenhower back on the green by the same golf course designer, president george h. W. Bush and a little weekend tennis game, no big deal. [laughter] the clintons went to camp david every weekend. They loved to camp for thanksgiving so i got to see them twice and they would bring their large extended family. If you dont know part of the family is senator barbara boxer. The somewhat musician and dick kelly his stepfather at the time. You sit back and watch these folks and its kind of like our family to some degree. Again we are in the world but not of their world. We learned th learn the balance. President obama behind. This is put in by nixon. And then this very poignant and somber story about kennedy that president kennedy and the kids with vocationally and i mentioned a 91yearold gentleman so he was the Commanding Officer and at this moment is when jackie comes knocking on the door and says excuse me can your kids come out and play with john john and carolyn, sure, they would love to. As im interviewing chuck in his living room, in his kitchen last year and his son who is now 66 was 12yearsold then, the big brother, they told told the sty about the day of the assassination and how the Public Schools sent over children home, he goes back up to cedar up crying and shaking his head extremely upset and today is still very emotional about the story in the kitchen of the home. He asks why the hell does this happen and his dad says god gave man free will and sometimes these things happen. He assembles the crew at the flagpole, they lower it to half mast, say a prayer and go on their way. Think about this, now you dont have a quote on food boss the great turmoil, inkster, uncertainty and despair in the country. They wait for the next bus to come which is president johnson of course. He says we never saw anyone from the Kennedy Family again, we packed our things up and send them back. There was a gentleman with a Construction Company working at the time who had a clearance to work inside the camp and they said its a shame we dont have a chapel or place for the families to go for thi that momt of silence and solace. He said when i retire i want to raise private money and build a chapel dedicated to the United States and sure to his word when he retired he got permission from president reagan at the time he raised private money and he built evergreen chapel. 1991 president george h. W. Bush is open foit is open for the fie and since then the president s choose to worship and this is where we go, evergreen chapel. Typically there is currently a catholic mass and protestant service, s so two services a day and i joke when the president was there for you to vote and and my daughters would say we should be getting extra credit here, two services, we are behaving in a very nice dresses. [laughter] its providing religious programs in violation of the president s always went to chapel and for many i think they found it is that quiet country church, no photograph photography come , limited scrutiny, limited people looking at you from a place you can go to sit and be by yourself and take in the service, mingle afterwards and go without or they can its a wonderful gift given to us. In the book i dedicated to the show it says thank you for making this our home. I imagine theres a number of veterans in the room and others that have moved around a lot and every time you move them into a new house there is a channel in chief to make it a home and for me but alway always fell on thae to make a home and especially every house we lived in with our children she made it especially a unique and special home. All these things are her touches in the way we entertain and engage guests and the crew, it was very special and great memories i know i have is was the predecessors after us as well. The command Office Building inside, and then my favorite building. I mentioned it previously it is where churchill and roosevelt sat on the porch guitar harder first the small Conference Room as opposed to the bigger facilities available he wanted them to bto be close and persone and currently the camp library. I put this phrase on the bottom of this life perfect but natural. This is the true test of ones leadership story about camp david. How do you run the facility on top of a mountain in nature with great men and women from the Navy Marine Corps indeed perfect but make it look natural, how do you clean nature of this not make it look scrubbed clinics how do you make sure you clean it up but not affect the functioning of the building where the white . This is a beautiful shot but its not ready for humans to visit. You have to get the fireplace cooking and cleaning the snow. What do you do when a water line breaks into another visit is coming soon, how do you can be perfect but natural which is of course not possible. Much of the book i talk about the stories that i and others experienced in balancing the needs of your Family Living by themselves and cedar, the need of the crew, how did you handle discipline and rewards and those awkward moments with the president s, how can use humor in the right way, how do you apologize for your crew or you make a mistake but that i do ita non gratuitous and genuine way, constant pressure and thank andr oblate be perfect but natural. So much of how it influenced the rest of my life and career i took from there. Id like to put it up when significant events during the time and that is the middle east peace summit in the middle of 2000. About the sixth time in a sitdown with arafat to try to conduct the peace treaty this is the last summer before the elections. Its been together, about five days notice they were coming which was fine because if you have too much time you over plan things to start undoing things so here it is the opening shot on the opening day that was seen around the world i am standing where you are with the Marine Security and all the press photographers at one time the press was allowed in and they walked down this pathway and if you remember the scene they are jostling at the door, who goes in first and its a very lighthearted ode to be the opening this 12 or 14 day event that doesnt result in a peace treaty. The protocol you always greet the president into just so happens secretary albright was helping me that day and comes in the day before it starts in ju july. Thyou greet anythe great antilis who come in or try to come and try to be perfect but natural. You dont want to be awkward about it. Some guests dont want to see you at all, like yasir arafat who refused to fly on u. S. Helicopters and came in on his own security checkpoint and only by happenstance did they run into him and his white house photographer standing. At this photo and im now in a polo shirt and khakis which is how the dress down to camp david casual, the uniform we still wear today to kind of tear it down after the official arrival in the way by chance i get the most surreal photograph i have shaking his hand. So he thinks hes making progress, gone about a week hast has to go to the summit in japan. The night h he supposed he suppd layoff rate is rainy and cloudy, not good visibility so we are standing there to see him off and we stand there for five hours so you think this is a weakness but its a strength because he wasnt a very scripted guy come he kind of ran with the moment so this maybe wasnt so unusual for standing e standing around but in this case what he was doing his working them to the end. Working there he goes, their personalities, heavily impassioned by making video, working with them on what they wanted from each other and how the u. S. Could help end for five hours, it didnt seem like that long standing there waiting to say goodbye at one point his daughter chelsea walks up and says im sorry, commander but my dad is running a little late. Thats okay, we would just hang here for a while so he takes off tells secretary albright keep hithem here i will be back and o no avail nothing is signed. Its probably one of his greatest disappointment he talks about in his life was no peace treaty between israel and the plo. How did you say goodbye, chapter 11, changing of the guard. I look back at the tapes and they found when they said goodbye to reagan and george h. W. Bush the crew did something. Can we say goodbye, sure, theres four days of guests, people coming through, craziness, pop singers singing in the chapel, a lot of mayhem in good fun way and in the final days the sunday before the tuesday imagination so my wife michele on the left and ginger williams gives the clintons some gifts that have hung in the balls for eight years and that evening we had a farewell ceremony in the hangar and this is senator elect clinton when she one the race and makes comments, we get some milk and stability come say goodbye to chelsea and we take one last photograph with the crew and the family. Last moments, last night. And everyone talks about saying goodbye to the president again as a person. You see the family coming to kind of get to know them and to say goodbye and then thats it. At 10 00 they were saying goodbye in the chelsea turns to me and hands me two stuffed animals, she says commander, id like you to give these to your daughters ive had them for eight years here at my room and i would like them to have them as a memory. A very gracious nice thing from a charming young lady going off to college just one of those great moments of human nature that you treasure and then suddenly they get in the helicopter, the door shuts and they are gone and its over. Changing of the guard. We have the 36 day fiasco with hanging chads, we dont the president is going to be that we know we will have a new one and then of course it is president bush coming gets inaugurated, we get to go to the inauguration and i think senator leahy of vermont for getting me tickets a minute and during that weekend, he was in my tour group, fascinating to be with people like you and i kind of on a tour at the facility that you host city go to the inauguration and he comes up two weeks later by himself and asks me in the golf cart to drive him around and show him around campus which is embarrassing because i knew hed been there lots of his dad in the public is just as much so i kept it simple, the camp david to her for dummies antour for dm off at aspen. This is what impressed me a few weeks later than february he reaches out to tony blair, theyve never met a different political parties, they are great friends of the clintons but he reaches out and invites them to camp david to be with george and laura and began watching from the sidelines you see a president , a world leader reach across to the number one ally, invite them to camp, not the white house where it is formal and china and crystal but camp david where it is your family room with two couples and no staff, a light moment in the world could be but a very pleasant weekend, very lighthearted and humorous but a great start and i think he visited two or three times since. Fast forward unfortunately seven months later the 9 11 attacks and what i think as you see the relationship started back in good times and the point of developing relationships i think i want t to duplicate the minisr was in the Congressional Chamber with bush when he talked about what he would do to respond to the attacks. President bush reaches across to one of the most important pacific allies in japan, the Prime Minister and invites them over for a very open visits to camp david in july, very lighthearted again reaching out and building relationships before you need it which he impressed mweimpressed me from s to see how you do business in this appropriate setting. They loved camp davi love to cat there a lot and the crew worked hard to support this. When you work every weekend as opposed to once in a while, they left camp davi david, you see tm with their parents, sitting in pews when listening to the Childrens Service at. And on their watch is dedicated in his fathers administration and hits the ten year mark so we have a nice service just like they did ten years prior, the same clergy were denominations are invited, songs were sung and a sandwich with families as they exit the chapel taking photos thaphotosthat they and we all gh together. So they were very punctual. In fact so punctual he called me early one day when he was early and i wasnt, so i know from my successors for eight years theres a 30 minute rule you were always 30 minutes early before the bushes because they tend to run on time or early. So to come upon my weekend before we leave in august of 2001 and he cant make it he has to cancel. His secretary calls me in the office, the phone rings and its the president s secretary. She says good morning, commander can you take a call from the president. The president of ssa or who lacks is this about the cheerleading competition plaques of course i can take the call. He says they cant make it this weekend im sorry but i would like to invite you down to say goodbye. On the weekend everyone gets to go down and do a departure every Service Member that serves their pieces bring your family down and spend some time together so services that they. He spent some quality time talking to the girls come arising from notes. One of the things you learn you never want to embarrass the president or put them in an awkward situation. Well, he is telling a story and tells us how every first family plant a tree in the south lawn as kind of a tradition so he tells this innocent story and she asks an innocent question. What kind of a tree was it and that is him doing this. He says i knew you were going to ask me that. Its about this big. [laughter] so that is the lighthearted moment over here. [laughter] so again, this moment you see any president at least just kind of bring it back to earth but again, youre in their world, not of their world. A nice farewell photograph before we go on our way into port in august, 2001. If yo you were visiting me or me some of you had this photo taken next to the iconic sign of the last family photos with my family and me at the camp before he departed they were on our way and its been a true joy and pleasure and honor to come back and visit those that have lived there and go to the anniversary ball and reunite with crewmembers and go down the journey two years ago about writing this book and sharing it with the world and having the opportunity to talk to people about it and with that, i will conclude with it all started with this simple note from our daughters 19 years agdaughterse we are today. Thank you very much for your attention. Attention. I am open to questions. [applause] thank you for a very interesting lecture. My question, can you tell us what happens during a normal week when the president is not there. We recruit heavily comin, you handpick sailors and marines say you had a highpowered crew. By making beds, cutting grass, planting flowers, taking care of the place, we have some of the contractors doing heavier work with your training, practicing, claiming going to military classes if you have the time to do that because we all eventually move on after two to three to five years. Officers after two to three years depending on their specialty. So, maintain, keep it and always be ready. That is what we do. How many people can you accommodate clarks comfortably 20 to 40. During some of the summi summite have crammed people into the barracks. The sailors an and marines withn the barracks are sometimes they take them and i think theres a story about hamilton and jordan and his bunkmate with laundry growing so that is not comfortably but we have posted the israelis and palestinians. Its all about shoving equity. The horses came from the National Park service in washington, d. C. I saw the clintons wanted to go first for correcting, so i got to see it in action where they bring the horses up and run them through the metal detector and off they go. Yes sir in the back. Its cool when you live there and have family and friends but when you are snowed in and of te park roads were icy and they cant get down to the area you are by yourself with mom and dad and they say you cant go sled riding on the president s bill, you cant build a snowman in your life is like thats ridiculous. I said i dont know w know we at places to be ready t, dont make it hard on me. They have wonderful memories. Our oldest was in second, third grade, the youngest was in preschool. There was more remorse on their part and a next. They wrote about it in the college essay, scored some huge plans insured. [laughter] there are those moments digest are not always fun. Every family dealt with it in different ways. Can you tell us about your career and how its prepared you for this unique command . Been the pieces you are one of the three or four officers and questions about the propagation of preparation of the naval career and i was selected. Then you start with this exceptional crew and realized it could have been anyone else. I was fortunate to serve. I have great people. If i can do that at camp david with the president did survive i think the rest of my career is going to be okay. So it was a great testimony and proving ground to let people do their thing and exile which is what they are going to do most of the time and when they need your backing to pick up the pieces, thats what you do. In many stories of similarity have we had. Im surprised. He was there for three to four years with nixon. His dog attacked the nixon french poodle and tore it up. It was ditching the president s daughter together and john was pale and said im done this as it. He goes over to apologize and they say its okay, come back tomorrow and he lived through it. I never had a story like that but what i find is we have had some similar stories so it was easier to write the book and bring in their anecdotes as well. We are in hawaii, that was my consolation prize and we all have our story, awakened at 3 a. M. And one of the early reports we heard was a plane was going to camp david so our doctors here this entry are thinking of the friends and family we just left and then kind of knowing whats going on behind the scene we imagined this whirlwind of uncertainty and chaos it must have been. The gentle man had some Great Stories and poignant moments in the book about what he went through. The chaplain served during my time and stayed longer he had such a relationship they used some of his words so you see these very human relationships grow from a tragedy that i wasnt there so i didnt have to deal with it. That is now undisclosed and their president cheney was sent by the undisclosed location was in fact camp david. [inaudible] there are five or six officers assigned, the Commanding Officer, the executive officer and then three other lieutenants were all engineer officers. One supply officer and one chaplain. During my time it was always of the protestant faith. The Catholic Priest right up the street its like watching the old reruns of the witch is which deren was going to show up that sunday. [laughter] we had communion for a number of the childrens that depend chile number of the demographics and what they need but there theres still a catholic and protestant service. How does the physical security gets provided clarks wonderfully. [laughter] its collaborative, they still guard the responsible centerpiece and to talk about this in their regard as well and a lot of other fancy stuff that goes on and protecting the space like the white house that it is in a much more public domain, that impeccable security. There is one in the 80s a woman today t did the drive herp and crash into the gate so we felt okay we need to adjust on this and prevent that from happening again so thereve been some of those lists and humorous incidences but of course i cant talk about it much more than that. [inaudible] i am very interested in this and i was delighted that youve picked up little bits and piec pieces. Where is a good place to go [inaudible] we would write a report and ascended to the white house and tandim sure that is in the pubc domain. I dont recall if the menus were in their. I dont recall if we went to that detail but our sailors worked sometimes with their own staff that he sees men and women working together in the white house teaching each other how to serve what they like and dont like, that is pretty important business. The president pays for his own food at camp david . To run and operate camp david because it has a mission in the United States security world when a president brings guests on the weekends all of the food and drink is kept separately and its paid for by the president [inaudible] i imagine the state department where we have kosher meals brought up from dc three or four times a day was covered through the diplomatic aid. Any other questions ladies and gentlemen . Wonderful. Yes. [inaudible] eyeing the staff combined the dishwasher. [laughter] i dont care who you are in that building when you come home you are still bad and you are still doing the dishes. [laughter] we are friendly with everyone but its different when you are the boss and so we are from pittsburgh so all the family would visit us so its close enough we could entertain on the weekends the president wasnt weekend the president wasnt there have friends visit. He tried to be a normal family but its not a normal environment. You have a modest house with a great guard but how you get to use it is tempered sometimes. Theres wonderful memories going back over the years has been wonderful to see their kids played and what they did in their rooms and other facilities are being used. [inaudible] my first visit was zero lead time the command change on a friday at 10 a. M. And my predecessors had no visits on the books. That morning before the event change of command are coming that night. So i talk about in the books it was a wonderful way and you ask about my career. I was just handed the drivers keys and i have no idea how the powertrain were. I would be an idiot to do anything but sit there and watch the crew do their job. I go to the kickoff, subversion to ask smart and ask an intelligent question like what kind of breath mints do we have. [laughter] for the last year and a half quite honestly if its on its off, if its off its own, hes coming to pick up some stuff on its off. Hes coming right away. We didnt know they were coming off a helicopter at first. The first ladys social secretary are usually key on who is coming, president bush very scripted we always knew was coming in the cabinet they want and what feels. You just learn to adjust. Yes sir. [inaudible] no one knows that. Its a volleyball on a squash court, george h. W. Bush loved that game playing with the sailors and marines and family, archery, driving range which is the landing zone, the putting green, two pools and the lounge, horseback riding, crosscountry skiing if he wanted to call for ggolf orgo skiing you had to lee camp and every president recreation differently, president obama had his own events with his friends so thats talked about in the book. Mrs. Obama liked to do small workout begins with her friends to begin with what its for, its for a getaway car relaxation for the president and family and everyone has used differently. [inaudible] yes, the staff pool which is where another story comes in because president bush wasnt supposed to go swimming in the staff pool and went swimming one morning and she can for you all about that story that they can go anywhere they want its just unusual because usually they would go to the hourglass shaped pool but its their place so they go wherever they want and give adjust as needed. We also hav had a fitness cented Basketball Court with cardio and weights i and all of that as we. Yes sir. [inaudible]