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Harry Hopkins: FDR's Assistant President & Friend

Single Session Class | Available (Membership Required)

4/2/2025 (one day)
11:00 AM-12:30 PM EST on Wed
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Harry Hopkins: FDR's Assistant President & Friend

Single Session Class | Available (Membership Required)

Harry Hopkins was President Franklin Roosevelt's closest ally and trusted adviser. Hopkins, Frances Perkins and Roosevelt established the New Deal throughout the 1930's. During WWII, Hopkins was FDR's closest consultant at the Casablanca, Cairo, Tehran and Yalta conferences. FDR had expected and wanted Hopkins to succeed him, and Churchill described Hopkins as "A most extraordinary man, who played. . .a decisive part in the whole movement of the war. A natural leader of men with a flaming soul." Such honorific words! Yet Harry Hopkins is basically an unknown historical figure. This presentation on Harry Hopkins will show much is owed to this extraordinary man.


Linda Bouchey

Linda Bouchey is a retired Hyde Park social studies teacher. She has been a docent at the FDR Presidential Library and volunteered in their archives.

 

Al Vinck

Al Vinck organized Youth Against Racism at Val-kill for Dutchess County students. He was the history chairperson for the Hyde Park school district and an adjunct professor at Marist College. Linda and Al co-authored “The Roosevelt Genealogy” for FDR’s family sold in the FDR Library Museum shop. Both have been docents for Wilderstein Preservation and Top Cottage. They served on the boards of Roosevelt/Vanderbilt and Wilderstein Preservation and co-chaired the Eleanor and Franklin Roosevelt permanent exhibition for the Hyde Park school district.