His wife, Eleanor, was one of the primemovers behind the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, whose 50th anniversary will be celebrated on December 10th.
One of the primemovers behind the drive to get the carnival moved from its traditional west London home also dropped in to Notting Hill to see how things were going.
He was also one of the primemovers behind the New Economic Partnership for Africa (Nepad) - a vision of transforming Africa which resulted in endless speeches and meetings around the continent but little else.
The prime-movers behind this initiative at the moment are Senators Fred Thompson (R-TN) and Robert Torricelli (D-NJ), the chairman and a senior Democrat respectively on the Senate's Governmental Affairs Committee.
It was supposed to involve just retired Career Ambassador Thomas Pickering and me, but wound up featuring as well comments from one of the prime-movers behind the denuclearization initiative, former Reagan strategic arms negotiator Max Kampelman.