“Harry Hopkins, hand picked by FDR to run FERA, hand picked one Lorena Hickok to be a FERA “investigator” in West Virginia, to check out the local scene, and to report back with any suggestions.
Thrown into hysterics and horrified by the plight of West Virginia’s indigent coal miners, on returning to Washington D.C. she breathlessly reported to Eleanor Roosevelt that “the only way out of the mess” she could fathom was that FDR become an “absolute dictator” (Thomas 1998, p. 117).”
For those who don’t know these characters, Harry Hopkins was a Soviet spy, and Lorena Hickok was Eleanor Roosevelt’s dyke lover.
Interesting. Thanks.