Actually that's not the claim being made by the executive branch. It's true that prior to the late war, it warned that the UN risked becoming irrelevant (as if that were a bad thing), but since then it's been singing high praises of the UN. It was Kofi's own envoy who put together the Iraqi governing council.
The "executive branch" has stated over and over again that it intends to make the UN as relevant as possible. And that's a serious problem that too many conservatives aren't willing to face.
Three things have been benchmarks for me in modern times.
LBJ when he made Social Security a part of Gov't income to cover up the cost of the war in Vietnahm and the need for taxes or face high deficits. I guess this is where Anderson and Enron picked up some of their accounting principles. Nixon dressing up the white house guards in Imperial uniforms - that got laughed out of existence but does the concept of an Imperial America linger?
Then Bush 1 and the reference to the New World Order.
they might not seem much to most people but they sure consciously or subconsciously indicated the direction our nation was heading