Conclusion to the historic Yalta conference as a plane carries President Roosevelt to Egypt

to solidify ties in the Middle East.

Then representing Saudi Arabia comes King Yipin Salad and a destroyer put in his disposal

for this episode a little history.

In February 1945, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, on his way back from his historic

summit with Joseph Stalin and Winston Churchill at the Black Sea Resort of Yalta, stopped

off in Cairo, Egypt.

The purpose, to meet with the King of Saudi Arabia aboard an American naval cruiser, the

USS Quincy, anchored in the great bitter lake in the Suez Canal.

Most Americans have never heard about the USS Quincy.

I can tell you, every Saudi knows what the USS Quincy wants.

Bruce Raidell spent 30 years as a mid-east analyst for the CIA.

President Franklin Roosevelt, even in the midst of the Second World War, was looking ahead

to the world after the war, and he recognized early on that oil was now the key to modern

technology, and as he looked around the world, the largest deposit of oil that the world

was in Saudi Arabia, and he decided therefore that he needed to build a relationship with

Saudi Arabia for the post-war war.

Few world leaders were less alike than FDR and Yipin Salad.

Roosevelt, of course, was the sign of a blue blood New York family who had mastered the

arts of American politics.

To bolster public support for entering World War II, he had portrayed the conflict as

a global crusade to advance the cause of human freedom.

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