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When I sit at my dining table, morning breakfast, I look out and what I see is the splendid

building of the United Nations.

Right outside my window and on my daily walks, I pass it pretty much every day.

I've been inside the UN building many times from the time I was 10 years old or so.

I belong to a group supporting the United Nations.

I worked for Arthur Goldberg, who was the United States representative to the United Nations.

I was as law clerk when he was on the Supreme Court.

And then when he worked on Resolution 242 of the Security Council, which was essentially

the peace treaty between Israel, Egypt and Jordan at the end of the Sixth day war, I helped

draft Resolution 242.

So I've always had a kind of fondness in my heart toward the United Nations and I love

its building.

It's just beautiful building, whether or not it's true or mythological that the sides

of the building are made out of stones that were originally intended for use to bury

Americans if we had to invade the Japanese Islands, whether that's true, exaggerated, myth

doesn't matter.

They're quite beautiful and spectacular and it's inspiring when you walk by every day

because what the United Nations stands for is something wonderful.

Let's remember where the term comes from.

The United Nations was the group, England, the United States, that fought against

Nazis.

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