“I think it is especially fitting that I do that here in the house that honours the legacy of Harry S Truman.”

— Kofi Annan

If FDR [Franklin D Roosevelt] was the architect of the United Nations, President Truman was the master-builder, and the faithful champion of the Organisation in its first years, when it had to face quite different problems from the ones FDR had expected.
Farewell Speech (2006)

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