US-Saudi mark 70 years of rocky alliance
Seventy years ago, FDR and Ibn Saud met on a cruiser to initiate an alliance that has persisted ever since.
![OBAMA-SAUDI/ U.S. President Barack Obama meets with Saudi Arabia's King Salman (R) at Erga Palace in Riyadh, January 27, 2015. Obama is stopping in Saudi Arabia on his way back to Washington from India to pay his condolences over the death of King Abdullah and to hold bilateral meetings with King Salman. REUTERS/Jim Bourg (SAUDI ARABIA - Tags: POLITICS ROYALS) - RTR4N55E](/sites/default/files/styles/article_hero_medium/public/almpics/2015/02/RTR4N55E.jpg/RTR4N55E.jpg?h=f7822858&itok=HcFIZrXe)
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