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take the U.N. job and wouldn't get any job at all and in the end would be very disappointed and unhappy, which I think is true, that he would have been.

I summoned all my energy and saw Stevenson and urged him to do the U.N. job, that he certainly could make a great contribution in the U.N., and that, after all, what he was interested in was in making a contribution and doing public service, and that there was no use in being cross about not being made of Secretary of State, and that if he bore Kennedy any hostility, he wouldn't be able to work with him, and that was extremely inexpedient.

Well, he was very unsure about wanting to do this and not as adamant as I had feared from Bill's telephone call, but I must say I made a maximum effort, as did Bill and Marietta Tree and probably a number of others, and he finally accepted. And it's true that he has done a splendid job at the U.N., and I think the Cuban Crisis probably revealed to the United States and to the U.N. in a way they could not avoid facing the duplicity of the Russians. There were many members of the U.N. Assembly who wanted to think that the Russians weren't as bad as the Americans thought they were, but when they saw the duplicity of Zorin on television and in the Assembly Hall itself there was no longer any doubt about the chicanery and duplicity of the Russians in the minds of any people in the United States or in the minds of any of the delegates. It was thoroughly revealed, and by Stevenson when he said, “I will wait for your answer until hell freezes over.” Wasn't that what he said?