 Complete the following phrase:  Although he initially enjoyed good relations with US President John F. Kennedy, who admired his stance against the Soviet Unionparticularly when the Berlin Wall was being builtand who called him a great captain of the Western world, their relationship later cooled. He was Kennedys most loyal ally during the Cuban Missile Crisis and supported the right that the US claimed to defend its interests in the western hemisphere, in contrast to German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer who doubted Kennedys commitment to Europe and thought the crisis could have been avoided. De Gaulle accepted that it might be necessary for the United States to take preemptive military action against Cuba, unlike many other European leaders of his time. De Gaulle was a prominent figure at the state funerals of two American presidents: 