United Nations Poster, "Charter of the United Nations" 1945

President Franklin Roosevelt was committed to U.S. participation in an international peace organization. To avoid challenges faced by President Wilson, President Roosevelt was careful to build bipartisan support for Senate approval by including influential Republican Senator Arthur Vandenberg as a delegate to the United Nations Conference in San Francisco. The U.N. Charter was signed on June 26, 1945. A month later the U.S. Senate overwhelmingly approved it.

Records of the Office of Government Reports, National Archives and Records Administration, Washington, D.C.