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Harry Lloyd Hopkins foi um assistente social americano, o oitavo Secretário de Comércio dos Estados Unidos e um dos conselheiros mais próximos do Presidente Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Foi um dos arquitetos do New Deal, especialmente dos programas de auxílio da Works Progress Administration , que ele dirigiu e tornou a maior empregadora do país. Na II Guerra Mundial, ele foi consultor-chefe diplomático de Roosevelt e solucionador de problemas.

Nascido em Iowa, Hopkins se estabeleceu em Nova York depois de se formar pelo Grinnell College. Ele aceitou uma posição na Secretaria de Bem-Estar da Criança da cidade de Nova York e trabalhou para várias organizações públicas de obras sociais e de saúde. Foi eleito presidente da Associação Nacional dos Trabalhadores Sociais , em 1923. Em 1931, Jesse I. Straus contratou Hopkins como diretor executivo da New York's Temporary Emergency Relief Administration. Sob sua liderança, o programa ganhou a atenção de Roosevelt, então governador do estado de Nova York, trazendo Hopkins para seu governo presidencial depois de sua vitória na eleição de 1932. Hopkins supervisionou a Federal Emergency Relief Administration, a Civil Works Administration e a Works Progress Administration. Também atuou como Secretário de Comércio entre 1938 e 1940.

Hopkins serviu como um importante conselheiro de política externa e diplomata durante a II Guerra Mundial. Ele foi um dos principais dirigentes do programa Lend-Lease que enviou US$ 50 bilhões em ajuda para os Aliados; Winston Churchill, em suas memórias, dedica-se a um verdadeiro panegírico para este "líder natural dos homens" que tinha "uma alma inflamada". Hopkins lidou com "prioridades, produção, problemas políticos com aliados, estratégia—em suma, com tudo o que pode preocupar um presidente". Ele participou de importantes conferências das potências Aliadas, incluindo a Conferência do Cairo, a Conferência de Teerã, a Conferência de Casablanca, e a Conferência de Yalta. Sua saúde declinou após 1939, devido ao câncer de estômago, e Hopkins morreu em 1946, aos 55 anos. Wikipedia  

✵ 17. Agosto 1890 – 29. Janeiro 1946
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“Tax and Tax, spend and spend, elect and elect.”

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Asserted by theatrical producer Max Gordon and printed by conservative newspaper columnist Frank R. Kent in the 1930s; Gordon later admitted that Hopkins had not said what was claimed; reported in Paul F. Boller, Jr., and John George, They Never Said It: A Book of Fake Quotes, Misquotes, & Misleading Attributions (1989), p. 49-51. note: On the other hand, in an exchange of letters published in the New York Times on November 24, 1938, Harry Hopkins wrote to the Times insisting he never said this quotation but Arthur Krock, a writer for the Times, countered that he had personally verified the source of the quote from a close friend of Hopkins and that Hopkins had made the remark in all seriousness at a Yonkers racetrack. Krock surmised in his counter-letter that Hopkins was trying to avoid embarrassment as he (Hopkins) was up for a Cabinet position, Secretary of Commerce. Max Gordon later identified himself as the original source for Arthur Krock and denied these were the exact words of Hopkins but claimed the words contained the gist of what Hopkins said.
Fonte: See New York Times, https://www.nytimes.com/1938/11/24/archives/letters-to-the-times-delayed-mail-deliveries-methods-of-handling.html?scp=4 For a full analysis of the origins of the quotation see: https://www.barrypopik.com/index.php/new_york_city/entry/tax_and_spend note: Misattributed
Ref: en.wikiquote.org - Harry Hopkins / Misattributed

“They are damn good projects - excellent projects. That goes for all the projects up there. You know some people make fun of people who speak a foreign language, and dumb people criticize something they do not understand, and that is what is going on up there - God damn it!”

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Stated at a press conference (April 4, 1935); reported in Robert E. Sherwood, Roosevelt and Hopkins (1948), p. 60. Sherwood says, "The reports of this conference quoted Hopkins as saying that 'the people are too damned dumb', and this phrase was given plenty of circulation in the press" (p. 61). He adds in a footnote that "it will be seen from the transcript of his remarks that this particular statement was directed not at the people but at the critical orators" (p. 938). Also reported in Paul F. Boller, Jr., and John George, They Never Said It: A Book of Fake Quotes, Misquotes, & Misleading Attributions (1989), p. 48-49; Boller and George also note that the quote was quickly misreported as "The people are too damn dumb to understand".

“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.”

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Spending to Save: The Complete Story of Relief (1936), p. 184