FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT F0 UR FREEDOMS HONORARY COMMITTEE Chairs PARKLLC Jimmy Carter George H.W. Bush William J. Clinton WILLIAM J. VANDEN HEUVEL Mrs. Ronald Reagan July 18,2012 ACTION rr-- CHAIRMAN Co-Chairs Tom Brokaw COpy Hugh L.Carey Anne Cox Chambers Henry Cisneros H.E. Mr. Ban Ki-moon Mario Cuomo Margaret Truman Daniel· Secretary-General of the United Nations Barbaralee Diamonstein-Spielvogel New York, NY 10017 David N. Dinkins Robin Chandler Duke DavidEisenhower Dear Mr. Secretary-General: Julie Nixon Eisenhower Frederick P. Furth Rudolph Giuliani ~h,i~h_Isl!~i! L~jli 9P~I.1 Doris Keams Goodwin The Franklin D RooseveltFourFreedoms Park, to Agnes Gund !l1S?publi~ onRooseveltIsland ion Q~tQP~r ofthisyear, Perhaps you have Dolores Huerta caught a glimpse of the Louis Kahn designed memorial to President Roosevelt Lady Bird Johnson' Vernon E.Jordan, Jr. from your office during 28 months of construction. Caroline Kennedy Henry Kissinger Edward I.Koch We hope to celebrate the profound connection between President Franklin William E.Leuchtenburg Roosevelt' the United Nations importantpart'of opening H. Carl McCall and 'asan this '-..' William J. McDonough extr'!QI~!!l~~ ~e~· ~Lyl~~~Qice.- We-wntet~iiSk -.(o r~~ri~f !p~~~~_~g~ iVi!~~¥~~ to Donald F.McHenry present a proposal for United Nations Day at the Franklin RooseveltFour George J. Mitchell D. Robert Morgenthau Freedoms Park. Perhaps we could meet on /~:~gus~ ,J_,~ )~ .~~ -~ ~- Your - --- ,~ Sam Nunn p~j_~jp~tiQI1 _ .~Q_!1ld @ ~y-en1. Peter G.Peterson mark this as histQr!c Colin L.Powell Bernard Rapoport , @~~! . Anna Eleanor Roosevelt You would be our most honored Others would include the United Arthur Ross" Nations Permanent Representatives, leaders of the UN community and senior George P.Shultz UNA UN would Robert S.Strauss officials ofthe Secretariat. Leaders of and the Foundation Percy E.Sunon" also be invited. We envision a short speaking program focused on the role of John J. Sweeney the Four Freedoms 10-thedomestic John C. Whitehead in'the-mIssIon ofthe"Untied-l\fatlonsallcl Rivington R.Winant­ and fore{gnpofic'y-ofthe'DilTteci .States.'t hetentatIve date'isbcto'b~r i 8-: Joanne Woodward befo~~~=~~ge~ri~_-i~ffi~~p~~t.l~~.-.I~!s~4i!~~~ -i~~J~cf_~{~Q~_r~.~ ~~~_,Y~_~r Andrew Young ~ch~_4~.l.~~ ·'n Memoriam _ BOARD OF DIRECTORS As background, the park is named for the Four Freedoms President Roosevelt William J.vanden Heuvel, Chairman enunciated to the world in January of 1941. These four essential human Mrs. Franklin D.Roosevelt Jr., Co-Chair freedoms are incorporated in the charter of the United Nations as well as in Sally Minard, President Kathy Sloane, Vice Chair the Universal Declaration of Human Rights achieved at the U.N. under the William R.Griffith leadershipof Eleanor Roosevelt. James S. Poishek EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR Gina Pollara ' r V~I ·,.. ' , S . \ H.E. Mr. Ban Ki-moon July 18, 2012 Page Two The Roosevelt Island site was chosen for the memorial in 1973 with keen awareness ofthe connection betweenPresident Roosevelt and the United Nations, creating an architectural and philosophical 'conversation' acrossthe water between the iconic UnitedNations headquarters and the new Kahn designed Roosevelt memorial and the values shared by each. I will be in touch with your office in the hope that if a brief meeting might be arranged at your convenience. · William J. vanden Heuvel Chairman, Franklin D. RooseveltFour Freedoms Park [FormerUS DeputyPermanent Representative to the UN] cc: Ms. Gillian Sorensen.