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'''Henry Morgenthau, Jr.''' (May 11, 1891 – February 6, 1967) was appointed Secretary of the Treasury of the United States during the administration of [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]]. The [[Morgenthau Plan]], which bares his name, was actually written by his assistant, Assistant Secretary of the Treasury and [[KGB]] agent [[Harry Dexter White]] who worked in the Division of Monetary Research.
[[Image:MorgenthauHenryJr2009-02-19.jpg|right|225px|]]'''Henry Morgenthau, Jr.''' (May 11, 1891 – February 6, 1967) was appointed [[Secretary of the Treasury]] of the United States during the administration of [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]] from 1934-1945.
Roosevelt biographer John Flynn described Morgenthau as "a slow, dull youth with no capacity for study. Up to the time he was given an important post by Roosevelt he had had no success in any kind of business. His father had set him up as a gentleman farmer on an estate next to Roosevelt's home at Hyde Park and endowed him with plenty of money. That is how he met Roosevelt and he remained for life the latter's humble and compliant servitor."
Roosevelt biographer John Flynn described Morgenthau as "a slow, dull youth with no capacity for study. Up to the time he was given an important post by Roosevelt he had had no success in any kind of business. His father had set him up as a gentleman farmer on an estate next to Roosevelt's home at Hyde Park and endowed him with plenty of money. That is how he met Roosevelt and he remained for life the latter's humble and compliant servitor."
==New Deal==
Morgenthau is known of resisting [[Keynesian economics]] and having doughts of Roosevelt's [[New Deal]]. He was quoted as saying in 1939.
"We have tried spending money. We are spending more than we have ever spent before and it does not work. And I have just one interest, and if I am wrong … somebody else can have my job. I want to see this country prosperous. I want to see people get a job. I want to see people get enough to eat. We have never made good on our promises. … I say after eight years of this Administration we have just as much unemployment as when we started. … And an enormous debt to boot." <ref>http://patterico.com/2009/03/02/a-quote-to-start-your-day/</ref>
==Morgenthau plan==
==Morgenthau plan==
==References==
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[[Category:United States Appointed Officials]]
[[Category:United States Appointed Officials]]