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We talked to my great friend, Thant, Mint, Wu, about the history of the UN in the 1960s and the life of his grandfather,

U Thant, who was the first Asian UN Security General and saw the organization through massive world events like the Cuba Missile Crisis.

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We're going to come up to your grandfather's great glory days.

But tell us about the first two Secretary-General's who preceded him.

Yeah, so the first was a Norwegian politician named Trigvili, and he left, were resigned,

I think it was about eight years later, saying it was the most impossible

job in the world. He had tried to kind of find this middle way. He had presented at one point

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