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Politics

Special relationship? Presidents and prime ministers

Presidents and PMs: President Bush drives PM Gordon Brown in a golf cart at Camp David
Buggy buddies George Bush and Gordon Brown take the golf cart to the presidential retreat at Camp David in July 2007 Photograph: Charles Dharapak/AP
Presidents and PMs: President George W Bush and Prime Minister Tony Blair at Camp David.
A warmer relationship was said to have existed between Bush and Tony Blair. The two met at the Camp David retreat in Maryland in February 2001 to discuss Saddam Hussein Photograph: Luke Frazza/AFP
Presidents and PMs: President Bill Clinton and PM Tony Blair at the White House in 1998.
With Bill Clinton embroiled in the Monica Lewinsky affair in 1998, Blair could easily have tried to distance himself from the president. Instead, Blair said he was proud to call Clinton a colleague and a friend Photograph: Tim Sloan/AFP/Getty Images
Presidents and PMs: President George H Bush gestures towards PM John Major at Camp David
On the 48th anniversary of the D-Day landings, Europe was still the focal point of talks between George Bush Sr, right, and prime minister John Major in 1992. Among their discussions was ethnic violence in Yugoslavia, aid to eastern European countries and the 'special relationship' Photograph: Dave Caulkin/Associated Press
Presidents and PMs: PM Margaret Thatcher visits Washington with President Ronald Reagan 1988.
Probably the closest transatlantic relationship between Britain and America came with Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan. In 1988 she was presented with the Ronald Reagan presidential foundation's freedom medal Photograph: Sipa Press/Rex Features
Presidents and PMs: PM Edward Heath with President Richard Nixon at the White House1973
Tory prime minister Edward Heath, left, was one of the few western leaders not to criticise Richard Nixon over the bombing of Hanoi in December 1972 Photograph: AP
Presidents and PMs: President Lyndon B Johnson in duscussion PM Harold Wilson.1966
President Lyndon B Johnson, right, discusses Nato with Harold Wilson in July 1966 Photograph: Yoichi R. Okamoto/Corbis
Presidents and PMs: President John F Kennedy with PM Harold MacMillan at the White House.
John F Kennedy, right, and Harold MacMillan patched up differences over the nuclear deterrent Photograph: Paul Schutzer/Time & Life Pictures/Getty Image
Presidents and PMs: President Truman with British PM Clement Attlee at Washington airport 1950.
In 1950, Clement Attlee, right, urged President Harry Truman not to go ahead with his threats to drop a nuclear bomb on Korea. The understanding the two leaders reached paved the way for more than half a century of the special relationship Photograph: Bettmann/Corbis
Presidents and PMs: PM Churchill arrives at the White House with President Roosevelt, 1943
Prime Minister Winston Churchill arrives at the White House with President Roosevelt in May 1943 Photograph: Bettmann/Corbis
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