guided the country through the Great Depression, and who guided the country through World War II, and who invented the United Nations, and who set America on the course of global leadership. So there was this very optimistic sense, this is the American Century, and we will guide the world. And America did many wonderful things in the early days. It created the UN, it created UN institutions, it launched the World Health Organization, it launched UNESCO, and the UN Education, Scientific, and Cultural Organization. It did many wonderful things. It helped to inaugurate an era of open trade, which made it possible for other countries to follow along in economic development. So that was the good side. The other side, though, was we entered a Cold War, kind of in a crusading spirit. We could talk for hours, days, weeks, months, and years about the Cold War, and I'm going to restrain myself, except to say, I think it could have been avoided, I think it could have been ended much sooner. But (22/45)