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On December 7, 1941, at 1:40 pm, Hopkins was in the Oval Study, in the White House, having lunch with President Roosevelt, when Roosevelt received the first report that Pearl Harbor had been attacked via phone from Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox.
Harry L. Hopkins was a U.S. New Deal Democratic administrator who personified the ideology of vast federal work programs to relieve unemployment in the 1930s; he continued as President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s emissary and closest personal adviser during World War II.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Jun 12, 2006 · In 1928, Hopkins supported Democrat Franklin Roosevelt for the governorship of New York, and Roosevelt rewarded him three years later by naming Hopkins the head of the state’s new Temporary Emergency Relief Administration.
One of these, the New York state program TERA (Temporary Emergency Relief Administration), was set up in 1931 and headed by Harry Hopkins, a close adviser to then-Governor Roosevelt. A few years later, as president, Roosevelt asked Congress to set up FERA—which gave grants to the states for the same purpose—in May 1933, and appointed ...
During the Depression, Hopkins established a Red Cross relief program that was the model for Franklin D. Roosevelt's New York State Temporary Emergency Relief Administration (1931).In the Roosevelt administration, Hopkins was director of the Federal Emergency Relief Agency (1933-1938), while also serving on the President's Draught Committee ...
In 1941 he was appointed head of the lend-lease programme to provide aid and support to the Allies. After Roosevelt's death in April 1945, Hopkins continued for some months to serve as presidential assistant, visiting Moscow on behalf of the new president, Harry S. Truman.
Under the leadership of Harry Hopkins, President Roosevelt's "minister of relief," aid to America's unemployed began in mid-1933, only months after the new administration took office.
