"Stephen Schlesinger" is an author and political commentator. He is a Fellow at the Century Foundation in New York City. He served as Director of the World Policy Institute at the New School University from 1997 to 2006. He is the son of historian Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr./Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr and oldest brother of journalist Robert Schlesinger.

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Truman understood from the start what the Bush administration today seems unwilling to concede: that the benefits of international cooperation are well worth the cost.

It was not until the 1989 collapse of Communism that the UN began to fulfill the original plan that Truman had for it.