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Harry Hopkins Biography

Harry Lloyd Hopkins (August 17, 1890 – January 29, 1946) was an American social worker, the 8th Secretary of Commerce, and one of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's closest advisors. 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. In World War II, he was Roosevelt's chief diplomatic adviser and troubleshooter.

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Tax and Tax, spend and spend, elect and elect.

Elect, Libertarian, Spend, Tax, Taxes

People don't eat in the long run, they eat every day.

Day, Eat, Long, People, Run, Running

Three or four million heads of households don't turn into tramps and cheats overnight, nor do they lose the habits and standards of a lifetime. . . They don't drink any more than the rest of us, they don't lie any more, they're no lazier than the rest of us. . . . An eighth or a tenth of the earning population does not change its character which has been generations in the molding, or, if such a change actually occurs, we can scarcely charge it up to personal sin.

Character, Lose, Lying, Population, Tenth, Turn

The things they have actually accomplished all over America should be an inspiration to every reasonable person and an everlasting answer to all the grievous insults that have been heaped on the heads of the unemployed.

Actually, America, Answer, Answers, Heads, Inspiration

Hunger is not debatable.

Cooking, Debatable, Food, Hunger

I thank God that I live in a country where dreams can come true, where failure sometimes is the first step to success and where success is only another form of failure if we forget what our priorities should be.

Country, Dream, Failure, Forget, God, Priorities

Communities now find themselves in possession of improvements [resulting from the WPA] which even in 1929 they would have thought themselves presumptuous to dream of. . . [but] everywhere there had been an overhauling of the word presumptuous. We are beginning to wonder if it is not presumptuous to take for granted that some people should have much, and some should have nothing; that some people are less important than others and should die earlier; that the children of the comfortable should be taller and fatter, as a matter of right, than the other children of the poor.

Children, Comfortable, Communities, Dream, Poor, Should Have

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