Senator Kennedy, he said, has had "a unique way" of getting Senators "sitting down at the table and making the right concessions".
He claimed that he would only support membership of the European Union if he could wring the right concessions from other continental leaders.
Much will hinge on the stamina of the Trump administration's negotiators, who must extract the right concessions from North Korea and persuade its government to follow through on its thus-far-airy promises regarding "denuclearization". Few experts in the field are anticipating a major breakthrough.
Just hours before the two men met, North Korea said that in return for the right concessions it might consider re-freezing its nuclear program, bringing the situation back to roughly what it was a year ago, before the North began turning nuclear fuel rods into bomb material.
In exchange for Randolph's canceling the march, Roosevelt created the Fair Employment Practices Committee, the first major federal civil rights concession since Reconstruction.
"We were about to give away the naming rights, the parking revenue rights, the concession rights, all those things, to a private university...
Amnesty International said in a report this month that despite human rights concessions, little had changed in practice in China.
One of their slogans was "stop the sell‐ out," meaning the Government's civil rights concessions to the Catholic minority.
Further negotiations were set for Friday, as the league tries to win rights concessions from the Olympics in exchange for sending its players to Sochi.
When McGuinness joined, the IRA was being re-armed in response to attacks on Catholic areas by Protestants angry at civil rights concessions.
