
Opinion: Biden is heading to the Middle East for one simple reason
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Ahead of Biden's upcoming trip to the Middle East, Aaron David Miller unpacks what the President hopes to accomplish, and why he likely chose to stop in Saudi Arabia.
Exhausted and ill but enamored of kings, deserts and oil, President Franklin D. Roosevelt met King Ibn Saud, founder of modern Saudi Arabia, on his way home from Yalta in 1945. In 1974, Richard Nixon, the first sitting US president to visit both Israel and the Arab states, took what proved to be a farewell foray two months before he resigned the presidency.

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