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When Roosevelt became President and wanted a Federal Emergency Relief Administrator he named Harry Hopkins to this post at Mrs. Roosevelt's urging. Hopkins convinced the President on the idea of a relief program by means of grants-in-aid to the states. The [[National Recovery Act]] (NRA) had given Roosevelt $3,300,000,000 to spend. As soon as Roosevelt got hold of this $3,300,000,000, congressmen, senators, mayors, governors, chambers of commerce, charity organizations from every state and city began requesting money. Roosevelt thought the NRA was going to bring prosperity quickly, but at the end of July he put Hopkins in charge of the [[Civil Works Administration]] (CWA). In short order Harry had a vast army pulling weeds and raking leaves. He told the President: "I've got four million at work but for God's sake, don't ask me what they are doing."  

When Roosevelt became President and wanted a Federal Emergency Relief Administrator he named Harry Hopkins to this post at Mrs. Roosevelt's urging. Hopkins convinced the President on the idea of a relief program by means of grants-in-aid to the states. The [[National Recovery Act]] (NRA) had given Roosevelt $3,300,000,000 to spend. As soon as Roosevelt got hold of this $3,300,000,000, congressmen, senators, mayors, governors, chambers of commerce, charity organizations from every state and city began requesting money. Roosevelt thought the NRA was going to bring prosperity quickly, but at the end of July he put Hopkins in charge of the [[Civil Works Administration]] (CWA). In short order Harry had a vast army pulling weeds and raking leaves. He told the President: "I've got four million at work but for God's sake, don't ask me what they are doing."  

The CWA developed a reputation very quickly as a leaf raking agency and so it was reorganized into the [[Works Progress Administration]] (WPA). Hopkins estimated that 25 million people got their living from Works Progress Administration alone.

The CWA developed a reputation very quickly as a leaf raking agency and so it was reorganized into the [[Works Progress Administration]] (WPA). Hopkins estimated that 25 million people got their living from Works Progress Administration alone.  Roosevlet 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. He was appointed [[Secretary of Commerce]] and a little more than a year and a half later moved to the [[White House]] as a close presidential confidant, adviser and resident, paid a salary that was never authorized by Congress.

==Mission to Moscow==

==Mission to Moscow==