Conclusion
Journal: Palgrave Macmillan US eBooks
Year: 2012

On Valentine's Day, 1945, having flown directly from his final meeting with Churchill and Stalin at Yalta, President Roosevelt met with the Saudi king Abdul Aziz al Saud aboard the USS Quincy on Egypt's Great Bitter Lake. Ibn Saud and his kingdom fascinated Roosevelt and he had prepared thoroughly for the meeting. "[The king] has never been outside Arabia," a briefing paper explained. His passions included "women, prayer and perfume," and the president learned that the king might offer him an Ar