Harry Truman actually said...

I hope these recommendations can form the basis for final agreement between the parties.

Further Telegrams to Leaders in the Steel Labor Dispute.

07/12/1949

More Harry Truman Quotes

We have not joined together for purely defense purposes.

We welcome you, and I am glad that you can be here with us.

I am glad you are having your meeting here, and I hope you will have a successful and pleasant one, and I am sure you will.

They were started even before the end of World War II, and in fact before the United Nations was organized in San Francisco.