Anwar Sadat’s New York Visit: Art, Central Park and the UN

New forms of art. And if you judge me, do not judge me by what I've built for today, but what I've built for all time.

At the new Center for the Performing Arts are heard the new symphonies, operas, plays, poems, and folk songs.

Here will be built the city of legend that lives beyond its time.

The hieroglyph on this obelisk was carved in Egypt 3,500 years ago.

Now it stands in New York in Central Park, a gift to the city from the Khedive of Egypt 85 years ago, symbol of the continuity of civilization.

Don't be chicken. Come on.

The winds of March blow on city streets in front of the headquarters of the United Nations, the hope and reassurance of mankind seeking peace in the world.

For what, in fact, is the world? A glass which shines, which a breath has made, and which a breath can destroy.

Secretary General U Thant confers with Anwar Sadat during his visit to the Secretariat Building.

The United Nations is working for a better tomorrow.

Here, truly, the world is a prophecy of worlds to come.

New York, the last day of a visit to America.

Today becomes yesterday, and a journey becomes a memory.

For a few days, Anwar Sadat and Mrs. Sadat have been part of America, its fun, its cities, its people, its changing season.

They have been part of America just as America has been part of them.

And the poet has written, "Among the benefits of travel is the freshness it brings to the heart, the seeing and hearing of marvelous things, the delight of beholding new cities, and the meeting of unknown friends."