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Harold Lloyd "Harry" Hopkins (August 17, 1890 – January 29, 1946) was an American statesman, public administrator, and presidential advisor. A trusted deputy to President Franklin Delano Roosevelt , Hopkins directed New Deal relief programs before serving as the eighth United States secretary of commerce from 1938 to 1940 and as Roosevelt's ...
Aug 13, 2024 · 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.
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Jun 12, 2006 · Born in 1890 in Sioux City, Iowa, Harry Hopkins grew up imbued with traditional Midwestern values of self-reliance, thrift, and pragmatism. At Grinnell College, he studied American politics and the British Parliamentary system.
- The President’s Intimate
- “A Crumbling Lighthouse…”
- “Thy People Shall Be My People…”
- The Minutiae of A Special Relationship
- Room For Maneuver
- Hopkins on Grand Strategy
- “Among The Paladins”
- The Author
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It was all a long way from Sioux City, Iowa. Harry Hopkins grew up there, religious, genuine and warm, except for rare flashes of temper.1 Graduating from Grinnell College—with its traditional attention to social justice and the Christian religion—he labored within the Red Cross and the New York Board of Child Welfare. Admiring his profile and repu...
Churchill liked Harry immediately; their first meal together lasted for hours. Their friendship and advisory roles became permanent. Hopkins was to die shortly after the world war, and Britain’s greatest rhetorician flipped the critiques of Hopkins’ appearance upside down in his perfect tribute: “His was a soul that flamed out of a frail and failin...
An official observing Hopkins during his stay in Britain and said he was “universally liked” and “full of soul and wit.” He proved that at his departure dinner in Glasgow, when he rose for a toast. “I suppose you wish to know what I am going to say to President Roosevelt on my return,” he asked rhetorically. Then he quoted from the Book of Ruth: “…...
Soon Harry Hopkins found himself in a role that reached beyond personalities. Increasingly he dealt with complex issues of war which required every ability: strategic stockpiles, like rubber and tin; Lend-Lease to Britain, a program Hopkins managed; assistance to the Russians; shipping shortages, which greatly occupied the Anglo-American Combined C...
There were limits to Hopkins’ influence. The very access he enjoyed to Roosevelt engendered jealousies and concerns. Some of the rude things said about him splashed into the gossipy press. Some sneered that Eleanor Rooseveltwas, for Hopkins, a “back door” into the White House; he lunched with her regularly and shared her very liberal politics. U.S....
These qualities mattered in the war years. They could affect such vital questions as “When should we start the second front in Europe?” On such a question, it was no disadvantage to have Hopkins’ gift for thoroughly understanding industrial production and manpower. As early as spring 1942, Hopkins, Marshall, War Secretary Henry Stimson and others p...
Ill health seems the main reason Hopkins faded from the stage.8 By 1944 he was very sick. No longer living in the White House, he was seen rarely. He was at the Yalta Conference in February 1945, but only barely. Perhaps the last time he was photographed with Roosevelt was aboard USSQuincy, days after Yalta. He then left the ship and flew home dire...
Christopher C. Harmon is Bren Chair of Great Power Competition at Marine Corps University, Quantico, Virginia, where he began teaching in 1993. His course on Churchill as war leader is based on WSC’s six-volume memoir, The Second World War.Dr. Harmon also serves on the board of academic advisors for the International Churchill Society.
1 See David Stafford’s descriptions of Hopkins in Roosevelt and Churchill: Men of Secrets (London: Little, Brown and Co., 1999). Hopkins characteristic temper is noted in James Lacey, The Washington War (New York: Bantam Books, 2019). Lacey’s new book is crowded with details about Hopkins’ activities. 2 Erik Larson, The Splendid and the Vile(New Yo...
7 Hopkins and Marshall landed in London on 8 April 1942; see Warren Kimball, Alliance Emerging, 436-37. 8 Other factors may have been that Hopkins’ marriage complicated his relationship with FDR, and the rise of the supremely-self-confident James Byrnesas top domestic policy advisor. 9 Stafford, Men of Secrets, 284-85. The photo of 15 February 1945...
Harry Hopkins. Eleanor Roosevelt National Historic Site, Home Of Franklin D Roosevelt National Historic Site. As a federal relief administrator, Hopkins had significant impact on the New Deal. Library of Congress. Quick Facts. Significance: Eighth U.S. Secretary of Commerce. Place of Birth: Sioux City, IA. Date of Birth: August 17, 1890.
Harold Lloyd "Harry" Hopkins was an American statesman, public administrator, and presidential advisor. A trusted deputy to President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Hopkins directed New Deal relief programs before serving as the eighth United States secretary of commerce from 1938 to 1940 and as Roosevelt's chief foreign policy advisor and liaison ...
After being away from Washington for six months, convalescing from an operation for stomach cancer, Harry Hopkins made an emphatic return to action in March 1938.
