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Upon being “purged” from [[Agricultural Adjustment Administration]],<ref>http://homepages.nyu.edu/~th15/pressmanx.html</ref> Communist lawyer [[Lee Pressman]] was immediately hired back into the government by Hopkins, who apparently had little regard for the law; according to Pressman, Hopkins told him, “The first time you tell me I can’t do what I want to do, you’re fired. I’m going to decide what I think has to be done and it’s up to you to see to it that it’s legal.” <ref>Gilbert J. Gall, ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=xCYoLnaWXdoC Pursuing Justice: Lee Pressman, the New Deal, and the CIO]'' (New York: SUNY Press, 1999) ISBN 079144103, p. 32.</ref>

Upon being “purged” from [[Agricultural Adjustment Administration]],<ref>http://homepages.nyu.edu/~th15/pressmanx.html</ref> Communist lawyer [[Lee Pressman]] was immediately hired back into the government by Hopkins, who apparently had little regard for the law; according to Pressman, Hopkins told him, “The first time you tell me I can’t do what I want to do, you’re fired. I’m going to decide what I think has to be done and it’s up to you to see to it that it’s legal.” <ref>Gilbert J. Gall, ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=xCYoLnaWXdoC Pursuing Justice: Lee Pressman, the New Deal, and the CIO]'' (New York: SUNY Press, 1999) ISBN 079144103, p. 32.</ref>

Hopkins started programs for youth ([[National Youth Administration]]) and for artists and writers ("Federal One"). He and Eleanor Roosevelt worked together to publicize and defend New Deal relief programs. He was concerned with rural areas but more and more focused on cities in the great depression. Critics charged that his WPA, with 2 million men employed, who voted 90% Democratic, was the first national political machine. If Hopkins had plans for becoming president they were shattered in 1940 by the [[Hatch Act]] which made it illegal to use the WPA for political purposes. Roosevelt biographer John Flynn observed, " It became a part of Mr. Hopkins' WPA organization to learn how many of the down-and-­out had enough devotion to Franklin D. Roosevelt to be entitled to eat." <ref>''The Roosevelt Myth'', John T. Flynn, Fox and Wilkes, 1948, Book 1, Ch. 6, [http://www.rooseveltmyth.com/book/fdrmyth_Chapter_Four___Harry_the_Hop_and.htm ''Harry the Hop and the Happy Hot Dogs'']</ref> Hopkins' performances in WPA became such that he had to leave that position after the 1938 elections were over and was appointed [[Secretary of Commerce]].  Significantly, one old associate who moved with Hopkins into his new world was [[David K. Niles]] who had been his chief political adviser and campaign strategist.<ref>''Roosevelt and Hopkins : An Intimate History'', Robert E. Sherwood, New York Harper and Brothers, 1948, [http://americandeception.com/index.php?action=downloadpdf&photo=/PDFsml_AD/Roosevelt_and_Hopkins-An_Intimate_History-Robert_E_Sherwood-1948-1034pgs-GOV-POL.sml.pdf&id=252&PHPSESSID=03d3557b41f249f71349e6d730cc8498 pg. 129] pdf.</ref>  A little more than a year and a half later Hopkins moved to the [[White House]] as a close presidential confidant, adviser and resident, paid a salary that was never authorized by Congress.

Hopkins started programs for youth ([[National Youth Administration]]) and for artists and writers ("Federal One"). He and Eleanor Roosevelt worked together to publicize and defend New Deal relief programs. He was concerned with rural areas but more and more focused on cities in the great depression. Critics charged that his WPA, with 2 million men employed, who voted 90% Democratic, was the first national political machine. If Hopkins had plans for becoming president they were shattered in 1940 by the [[Hatch Act]] which made it illegal to use the WPA for political purposes. Roosevelt biographer [[John T. Flynn]] observed, " It became a part of Mr. Hopkins' WPA organization to learn how many of the down-and-­out had enough devotion to Franklin D. Roosevelt to be entitled to eat." <ref>''The Roosevelt Myth'', John T. Flynn, Fox and Wilkes, 1948, Book 1, Ch. 6, [http://www.rooseveltmyth.com/book/fdrmyth_Chapter_Four___Harry_the_Hop_and.htm ''Harry the Hop and the Happy Hot Dogs'']</ref> Hopkins' performances in WPA became such that he had to leave that position after the 1938 elections were over and was appointed [[Secretary of Commerce]].  Significantly, one old associate who moved with Hopkins into his new world was [[David K. Niles]] who had been his chief political adviser and campaign strategist.<ref>''Roosevelt and Hopkins : An Intimate History'', Robert E. Sherwood, New York Harper and Brothers, 1948, [http://americandeception.com/index.php?action=downloadpdf&photo=/PDFsml_AD/Roosevelt_and_Hopkins-An_Intimate_History-Robert_E_Sherwood-1948-1034pgs-GOV-POL.sml.pdf&id=252&PHPSESSID=03d3557b41f249f71349e6d730cc8498 pg. 129] pdf.</ref>  A little more than a year and a half later Hopkins moved to the [[White House]] as a close presidential confidant, adviser and resident, paid a salary that was never authorized by Congress.

==World War II==

==World War II==