but Carter used a personal approach to keep the talks going between Sadat and Israeli Prime Minister Begin. The Camp David Accords would become Carter's greatest foreign policy achievement.

The compound has expanded over the years, with new cabins being built and even a pool. It has also been the site of diplomatic events like the Camp David Accords in 1978 and the G8 summit in 2012.

It has also been the site of diplomatic events like the Camp David Accords in 1978 and the G8 summit in 2012. Here's a look inside Camp David, where presidents go to escape Washington.

Perhaps its most famous moment came in 1978 when President Jimmy Carter brokered the Camp David Accords between Israeli Prime ...