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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 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.
 
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 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.
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Hopkins' depended conspicuously on men such as [[Leon Henderson]], Director of [[Price Administration and Civilian Supply]], and [[Sidney Hillman]]. <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 pgs. 304] pdf.</ref>
    
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