Harry Hopkins

Verne W. Convinced that paid work was psychologically more valuable than cash handouts (the "dole") Hopkins sought to continue and expand New York State's work-relief programs the Temporary Emergency Relief Administration. See also
Venona Project.

In World War II he was Roosevelt's chief diplomatic advisor and troubleshooter and was a key policy maker in the $50 billion Lend-Lease program that sent aid to the Allies. He was one of the architects of the New Deal especially the relief programs of the Works Progress Administration (WPA) which he directed and built into the largest employer in the country. Harry Lloyd Hopkins (August 17 1890 – January 29 1946) was one of Franklin Delano Roosevelt's closest advisers.