"The Crimean Conference, with its way-stops at Malta and in Egypt, was the longest in point of time (Father was away from the United States for some five weeks); it permitted of more conversations between the leaders of the Big Three (there were eight formal meetings and many other informal talks during the eight days Father was in the Crimea, and they covered the full spectrum of military and political questions). <...>

Harry Hopkins is my witness for the statement that the unity of Churchill, Stalin, and Roosevelt was a firmer and more tangible thing at Yalta than at Teheran. And it was evident that Father's role, even more than at earlier conferences, was that of leader. It is not by chance that he sat in the middle when the pictures were taken. He dominated Winston Churchill more completely than before; Joseph Stalin was likewise prepared to heed Father's counsel, to accept Father's solutions."

Elliott Roosevelt, As He Saw It, pp. 234, 241.