For almost 40 years, Prince Saud Bin Faisal Bin Abdulaziz served as the foreign minister of Saudi Arabia -- serving under four kings and becoming the voice of the oil-rich nation's foreign policy. He stepped down on April 29, 2015 and died just weeks later, on July 9. In this excerpt from his hourlong 2004 interview, he talks to Charlie Rose about how Saudi Arabia sees the United States -- and about how he hopes the United States sees his country in return.

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Saud al-Faisal: 'We Are a Friend to the United States' (April 26, 2004) | Charlie Rose
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