To this day the words come back to me whenever I contemplate the history of American racial relationships.
His account of the American relationship with South Korea is a case in point.
Beijing accepted a continuing American relationship with Taiwan because of alarm at Soviet pressure on its own northern border.
But the American relationship with tequila has been changing.
"There's a certain level of individualism in American relationships I don't agree with myself."
The American relationship with Saudi Arabia is complex and delicate, but candor is sometimes needed.
But, most of all, it will need the security and confidence that only a stable and improving American relationship with China can provide.
Because of the strategic importance of the American relationship with South Korea, however, a deal could be tough for anyone to stop.
"He did not want to see the American relationship keep sliding."
And too the American relationship with France got off on the wrong foot.