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'''Harry Lloyd Hopkins''' (August 17 1890 – January 29 1946) was a close advisor to President [[Franklin Roosevelt]] and was frequently known as the Assistant President.  The President referred to him as Harry the Hop. While working in the White House, how he recieved compensation is something of a mystery.

'''Harry Lloyd Hopkins''' (August 17 1890 – January 29 1946) was a close advisor to President [[Franklin Roosevelt]] and was frequently known as the Assistant President.  The President referred to him as Harry the Hop. While working in the White House, how he received compensation is something of a mystery.

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.  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.

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.  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. 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==

During the war years, Hopkins acted as FDR's unofficial emissary to [[Winston Churchill]] and [[Joseph Stalin]], and as administrator of Lend-Lease.

During the war years, Hopkins acted as FDR's unofficial emissary to [[Winston Churchill]] and [[Joseph Stalin]], and as administrator of Lend-Lease.

An April 14, 1941 Memorandum from the U.S. Military Attache (G-2) in Moscow, found in the Harry Hopkins Papers at the FDR Library, entitled ''NKVD of the USSR'' <ref>

An April 14, 1941 Memorandum from the U.S. Military Attaché (G-2) in Moscow, found in the Harry Hopkins Papers at the FDR Library, entitled ''NKVD of the USSR'' <ref>

  Joseph A. Michela, Military Attache Moscow Report 1903, [https://www.cia.gov/library/center-for-the-study-of-intelligence/csi-publications/books-and-monographs/venona-soviet-espionage-and-the-american-response-1939-1957/part1.htm''N.K.V.D. of the U.S.S.R.,''] 14 April 1941, Franklin D. Roosevelt Library, Harry Hopkins Papers, "MID Reports--USSR--Volume V," box 190. </ref>, it states in part,

  Joseph A. Michela, Military Attaché Moscow Report 1903, [https://www.cia.gov/library/center-for-the-study-of-intelligence/csi-publications/books-and-monographs/venona-soviet-espionage-and-the-american-response-1939-1957/part1.htm''N.K.V.D. of the U.S.S.R.,''] 14 April 1941, Franklin D. Roosevelt Library, Harry Hopkins Papers, "MID Reports--USSR--Volume V," box 190. </ref>, it states in part,

{{Cquote|Although the Soviets disclaim [[forced labor]] in this country, the organization of this commissariat is interesting to note.  In it are the means to apprehend (militia), try and sentence (advisory council) and imprison offenders ([[Gulag|corrective labor]]).  Any governmental organization that has a crying need for labor simply calls upon the NKVD to supply it.  If the amount of labor is insufficient to supply the need, it is relatively an easy matter to institute a [[reign of terror]] on any pretext and fill up [[labor colonies]] to meet requirements....Its close supervision over the people, its [[pogroms]], its raids and arrests, has instilled fear...[http://web.archive.org/web/20040423034159/www.cia.gov/csi/books/venona/5d.gif]...The NKVD has every individual under observation from birth to death...its secret agents are everywhere; its actions are swift.  An individual simply disappears in the middle of the night and no one ever sees or hears of him again. ...When Stalin needs scapegoats to cover government mistakes he unleashes his NKVD...The Soviet Union is in itself a prison and the NKVD and State Security are its keepers. [http://web.archive.org/web/20040423034159/www.cia.gov/csi/books/venona/5d.gif]}}

{{Cquote|Although the Soviets disclaim [[forced labor]] in this country, the organization of this commissariat is interesting to note.  In it are the means to apprehend (militia), try and sentence (advisory council) and imprison offenders ([[Gulag|corrective labor]]).  Any governmental organization that has a crying need for labor simply calls upon the NKVD to supply it.  If the amount of labor is insufficient to supply the need, it is relatively an easy matter to institute a [[reign of terror]] on any pretext and fill up [[labor colonies]] to meet requirements....Its close supervision over the people, its [[pogroms]], its raids and arrests, has instilled fear...[http://web.archive.org/web/20040423034159/www.cia.gov/csi/books/venona/5d.gif]...The NKVD has every individual under observation from birth to death...its secret agents are everywhere; its actions are swift.  An individual simply disappears in the middle of the night and no one ever sees or hears of him again. ...When Stalin needs scapegoats to cover government mistakes he unleashes his NKVD...The Soviet Union is in itself a prison and the NKVD and State Security are its keepers. [http://web.archive.org/web/20040423034159/www.cia.gov/csi/books/venona/5d.gif]}}

Roosevelt biographer John T. Flynn remarked of Hopkins, "Men of high intellectual and spiritual caliber soon make themselves disagreeable to rulers who want abject subservience in their subalterns. They soon find the atmosphere of the court repulsive. They either depart or are dismissed. In the end, the only ones who remain are men of the type of Hopkins. ...one by one the abler men with some sense of personal dignity who were unequal to the role of [[sycophant]] drifted away ...The palace guard that survived were such men as Harry Hopkins... [[David Niles]] and [[Henry Wallace]]... men who were not interested in policy but only in discerning Roosevelt's pet mental drifts." <ref>''Roosevelt Myth'', Flynn, Book 1, Ch. 6.</ref>

Roosevelt biographer John T. Flynn remarked of Hopkins, "Men of high intellectual and spiritual caliber soon make themselves disagreeable to rulers who want abject subservience in their subalterns. They soon find the atmosphere of the court repulsive. They either depart or are dismissed. In the end, the only ones who remain are men of the type of Hopkins. ...one by one the abler men with some sense of personal dignity who were unequal to the role of [[sycophant]] drifted away ...The palace guard that survived were such men as Harry Hopkins... [[David Niles]] and [[Henry Wallace]]... men who were not interested in policy but only in discerning Roosevelt's pet mental drifts." <ref>''Roosevelt Myth'', Flynn, Book 1, Ch. 6.</ref>

Hopkins died January 29, 1946, succumbing to a long and debilitating battle with stomach cancer.

Hopkins died January 29, 1946, succumbing to a long and debilitating battle with stomach cancer.