The controversy set off a discussion as to whether Freeh might quit, but Freeh told me that at that point he had not seriously considered quitting.
The speech comes to mind now for two reasons: A Tavis Smiley documentary currently airing on PBS revisits the controversy set off by Dr. King's indictment of "the madness of Vietnam".
The literary milieu in 2015 was dominated by the controversy set off by the announcement from the publishing industry of a forthcoming sequel to the highly acclaimed classic of American fiction Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird.
The controversy set up yet another serious divide between American officials and Mr. Karzai at a time when the Obama administration has made combating corruption in the Afghan government a major policy goal.
The controversy set off fighting across the country between supporters of Mr. Odinga and those of Mr. Kibaki, who are from different ethnic groups, and it stirred up long-festering political, ethnic and economic grievances.
Last year, its organizers eyed the city for a second outpost: Panorama débuted amid small controversy, set to take place on Randall's Island just a few weeks after the long-standing Governors Ball.
And Mr. Sununu was hitting hard at her record as governor and the long-running tax and school controversy set off by a State Supreme Court ruling that found New Hampshire's school financing system unconstitutional.
Their remarks, made first in private during Mr. Obama's state visit here, and then publicly in a joint news conference, were evidence that the surveillance controversy set off by leaked documents from a former National Security Agency contractor, Edward J. Snowden, had followed the president overseas as he concluded a three-day diplomatic trip to Europe.
Clearly delighted over a controversy set off by a recent campaign advertisement in which he says "what really matters" this time of year is not the presidential campaign but "the celebration of the birth of Christ," Mr. Huckabee has missed no opportunity in his speeches to his core supporters of evangelical voters to utter those words, underlining the Christ part.
With the controversy set to continue, BBC Sport answers the key questions on the issue.
