On the 76th Anniversary of the US-Saudi Romance

Valentine's day of 1945 marked the first ever meeting between a US President and a king of Saudi Arabia. On the USS Quincy, romance blossomed, and the rest as they say is history.

It is perhaps one of history’s great ironies that the relationship between the United States and Saudi Arabia began on a Valentine’s Day. Returning from the Yalta Conference aboard the USS Quincy, US President Franklin D. Roosevelt made a pit stop at the Great Bitter Lake in the Suez Canal in Egypt. There, on February 14, 1945, he met with King Abdulazi…