The transatlantic bromance of David Cameron and Barack Obama

A look back at a truly special relationship

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President Obama and British Prime Minister David Cameron.

It was British Prime Minister Winston Churchill who inaugurated Britain and America's "special relationship," coining the phrase in a 1946 speech. And while Prime Minister David Cameron and President Barack Obama may not have had the political intimacy and ideological alignment of Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher, and indeed have had their rough patches, they nonetheless have shared a unique and jocular special relationship all their own.

"Yes, he sometimes calls me 'bro,'" Cameron once conceded of Obama.

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Lauren Hansen
Lauren Hansen

Lauren Hansen produces The Week’s podcasts and videos and edits the photo blog, Captured. She also manages the production of the magazine's iPad app. A graduate of Kenyon College and Northwestern University, she previously worked at the BBC and Frontline. She knows a thing or two about pretty pictures and cute puppies, both of which she tweets about @mylaurenhansen.