Talk:Harry Hopkins

Unrelated information
It seems like this article describes a lot of New Deal Policies, which don't have much to do with Harry Hopkins. If the reader of the article is interested, reference him to the page describing the WPA, FERA, and other stuff, but don't actually include that information in the article. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 97.118.25.175 (talk) 03:28, 21 March 2011 (UTC)

American Ambassador to Moscow Averell Harriman reported[citation needed] to a class at George Washington University in the fall of 1992 that it was in 1945 that he observed how Stalin once abruptly terminated a conversation and proceeded to cross the span of a large hall at the Kremlin to greet Hopkins as he and Harriman entered. Harriman indicated that this breach of protocol was considered a strong indication of the respect that the Soviets had for Hopkins personally, a great honor.

This is a wonderful story if true; I have no idea if it is true but would like to know. Harriman died in 1986 which makes it difficult for him to have stated this to a Georgetown class in 1992. . . He would have been 101 years old. I a a history buff, not an historian, but would desire to know the validity of this story. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.134.36.46 (talk) 00:45, 7 October 2013 (UTC)

Jobs
Why no critical section on Harry Hopkins and the WPA?

Why is there no section in the article on the life of Harry Hopkins on the corruption (political and financial) of the WPA. There is a (small) section on the corruption (political and financial) of the WPA in the article on the WPA itself, but in the article on Harry Hopkins himself all that is said is that the WPA "created jobs" (no mention of the jobs it DESTROYED by the taxes needed to pay for it) and nothing at all on the corruption (political and financial) of the WPA. There were reasons that the heads of the WPA and the PWA did not get on - it was not just a personality clash. The PWA (whatever one thinks of the economics of it) was basically honest - the WPA was a corrupt political machine (designed to deliver votes), and Harry Hopkins (the man who created the agency and controlled it) can not escape some blame for that.

5.66.136.118 (talk) 06:07, 17 August 2013 (UTC)
 * Wikipedia requires reliable sources for information--ideally, in this case, historians or biographers. Could you indicate what books you're looking at to start us off? -- Khazar2 (talk) 11:57, 17 August 2013 (UTC)
 * taxes were not raised to pay for the WPA. (deficit financing was used--paid back at a time of postwar full employment and prosperity) so no jobs were "lost" Rjensen (talk) 16:40, 17 August 2013 (UTC)

Richard Rhodes, hardly a herald for the GOP or the political "Right", in his 1995 book, The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb, essentially corroborates much of Racey Jordan's statements to the HUAC, or at the least, finds enough credibility to suggest that the bulk of the testimony and claims about the Great Falls incidents, have merit. Jordan's earlier claims as well, from my point of view, have credibility as well.

If so, then the acts of "favoritism (my word) toward the Soviets appear to gain much more credibility from Hopkins' own statements about "being as one" with the soviets begin, to solidify the claims of preferential Soviet Lend Lease transactions. When the items that were delivered to the Soviets, while Hopkins was alive and in charge - and sometimes at the peril of American soldiers - the picture offered in this bio seems grossly misleading.

While it is becoming very clear that Hopkins' decisions were controversial at best, they greatly aided and abetted the Soviets. To make the claim that his motives were totally anti-american, though there was much evidence that the Soviets had been an enemy of the U.S. since the 1930's, one should not be crucified for stupidity. Nor should such ignorance and stupidity rise to such high offices in our country's government (although that criteria has reached totally unthought-of proportions, when viewing today's elected, appointed, and hired administrators.

The line is blurred for sure, but in light of our current self-destructive policies, created and forced by our current officials, it appears that the true story, at the end of WWII, was just " you ain't seen nothin yet!". — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2600:1013:B013:E902:58D7:5219:8C9D:7611 (talk) 07:07, 13 November 2013 (UTC)
 * Actually the Russians were doing a huge amount of fighting and dying and American policy was to give them all the help possible so as to minimize the number of Americans killed. In a world American policy "greatly aided and abetted the Soviets."  Hopkins job was to carry out American national policy.  A different policy would have helped the Nazis. Rjensen (talk) 10:11, 13 November 2013 (UTC)

Plasma cure?
So FDR brought in some experts who gave Hopkins plasma and saved him. Is there any medical basis for that notion? People had lots of strange ideas about what blood could do back then.

Is it more likely that Hopkins just happened to get better at the same time? We have thousands of people walking around today with most of their stomach removed. That shouldn't be fatal in itself. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 23.119.204.117 (talk) 21:33, 1 July 2016 (UTC)

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