When I think of special relationships I think about family, close friends, good business acquaintances, etc.  In the murderous art of statecraft (as it is practiced today), we are told that the United States has a special relationship with Great Britain and Israel (I have no idea how they will all fit in my dining room next Thanksgiving). There was another special relationship, of a sort, between Franklin Roosevelt and Joseph Stalin.  I have written about this relationship once before, in one of my many posts while reviewing the book “Freedom Betrayed,” by Herbert Hoover (I highly recommend the book if you … Continue reading FDR’s BFF