On 14 February 1945 , Great Bitter Lake was the site of the Quincy Agreement . U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt , having flown directly from the Yalta Conference with Winston Churchill and Joseph Stalin , met on board the naval cruiser USS '' Quincy '' with Saudi Arabia 's King Abdulaziz . President Roosevelt 's interpreter was U.S. Marine Corps Colonel Bill Eddy who recorded the men 's conversation in his book '' FDR Meets Ibn Saud '' . The meeting is the subject of a BBC documentary by Adam Curtis , entitled '' Bitter Lake '' ( 2015 )
Yalta Conference
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Great Bitter Lake