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The Reality-Based Community: The Upcoming Stimulus Package: A ...
The source here comes from the man who should know: Harry Hopkins, who ran the Works Progress Administration in the 1930's. The WPA is the subject of a readable new book by Nick Taylor, who relates the following conversation: ...

The Sub Prime Kristol Meltdown
Harry Hopkins, promoted from comments:. I remember back in the late '90s when Ira Katznelson, an eminent political scientist at Columbia, came to deliver a guest lecture to an economic philosophy class I was taking. ...

The Perils of Intimacy: Harry Hopkins as Franklin D. Roosevelt's...
WHERE: Wisconsin Veterans Museum WHEN: 09/25/08 @ 7:00pm Free talk by Univ. of Connecticut Prof. Frank Costigliola.

FDR in 1933: Adam Cohen on a Model for President Obama
... Federal Relief Administrator Harry Hopkins, a dynamic social worker who had created the nation's first state relief program in New York;; Budget Director Lewis Douglas, the administration's leading conservative, who fought against ...

carnival of debt reduction #159~they never said it edition
harry hopkins (1890-1946) for years american conservatives have quoted the tax-spend-elect statement to show how cynical new dealers were when they sponsored public-works programs in the 1930s. they say the remark was made by harry ...

Roosevelt Franklin Delano
With the outbreak of the Great Depression, he identified himself with the urban relief cause by appointing Harry Hopkins to head the Temporary Emergency Relief Administration. As the depression deepened, he assembled the “Brain Trust,” ...

Harry Lloyd Hopkins, 1934 by Reuben Nakian
Of those joining President Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal administration in 1933, Harry Hopkins was easily the most adventuresome in devising ways to alleviate the Great Depression. This slender dynamo of a man first served as FDR's ...

mbspringer133 @ 2008-10-01t07:49:00
the new deal, harry hopkins as relief administrator, and social security were great liberalizing forces. besides providing money to the needful, they ceded authority over its use, a notably liberal step.

Who Was the Real “Forgotten Man?”
Men like Rexford Tugwell, Harry Hopkins and Harold Ickes are, for Shlaes, communist sympathizers, quasi-fascists, political opportunists, and narcissistic academicians more concerned with vindicating their theories than with the welfare ...

Watch Big News Episode 288: “Shoulda Gone To”
C-Span Announcer (Matt), FDR (Neil), Eleanor Roosevelt (Bailee), Jimmy Byrnes (Jason), Harry Hopkins (Phillip) and Henry Stimson (Jim). 10. SPECIAL GUEST: Nick Kroll Intro (Mike). 11. BIG NEWS REPORT by Ayers, Becker, Bleichman, ...