Harry Hopkins Quotes
I thought at first I could be completely non-political. Then they told me I had to be part non-political and part political. I found that it was impossible, at least for me. I finally realized there was nothing for it but to be all-political.
Referring to his early Washington administrative experiences:
Harry Hopkins, 1890-1946, U. S. Secretary of Commerce (Democrat), Director, Works Progress Administration, Director, Federal Emergency Relief Administration, Special Assistant to the President, Quoted in R. E. Sherwood, Roosevelt and Hopkins, An Intimate Biography, Harper, 1950
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In the 1980's there were many calls for sanctions against South Africa and its policy of apartheid. These calls were loudest by the black African states including President Kenneth Kuanda of Zambia. However, the nationally owned Zambia Airways established special service from South Africa to other parts of the world when many other nations cut off air service to and from South Africa:
Harry Lloyd Hopkins was the 8th Secretary of Commerce, and President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's closest advisor on foreign policy during World War II. 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 troubleshooter and liaison with Winston Churchill and Joseph Stalin. He supervised the $50 billion Lend-Lease program of military aid to the Allies.
