is ready to listen, ready to talk and ready to put his views across but open. and that change i think was very good for the u.s. obviously there are those who would object to that sort as a sea of u.s. power, but the rest of the world appreciated the new mood. >> you write at the very beginning of the book that in your years as secretary general, i mean, you write generally about the challenge of the united nations in an era of american dominance, right? in your years of secretary general you found yourself playing the role of a global interpreter explaining the united states to the world and the world to the united states. what are the things that american government and the american people have the hardest time understanding about the rest of the world? what was hardest to translate? >> no, there were many situations.