Today's Anniversary Feb 14 1945

69 years ago today, President Franklin D. Roosevelt met Abdul Aziz ibn Saud aboard the USS Quincy and reached an agreement -the 'Quincy Agreement' = 'military assistance' goes one way, supplies of oil the other. Roosevelt was on his way home from Yalta when he stopped off in the Suez Canal to meet ibn Saud, and died a month later. He smoked Gauloises, what ibn Saud smoked, if he did, is not recorded.

Time for a change?

(ps the soldier on his knees is Col William Eddy)...

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