“The Very Center of the World”: Robin Lampson’s Proposal to Make Contra Costa County the Site for the United Nations General Assembly

The Very Center of the World”: Robin Lampson’s Proposal to Make Contra Costa County the Site for the United Nations General Assembly Headquarters - The United Nations, founded in San Francisco in April of 1945, was the hope of a better world, one free of war and dedicated to international cooperation. One man from Richmond thought that the UN General Assembly building should be located in Contra Costa County.