FDR's feuding but indispensable New Dealers, Harold

FDR's feuding but indispensable New Dealers, Harold L. Ickes and Harry Hopkins. Oct. 19, 1935 during a trip to Panama with FDR, when he tried unsuccessfully to reconcile their differences. Ickes managed the PWA, the large-scale Public Works Administration whose construction projects required long term oversight. Hopkins headed the Works Progress Administration (WPA), whose small work projects became the largest employer in the country during the Great Depression. (BSLOC_2015_2_245)

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Economics Group Portraits Ickes Interior Secretary Lcgr1507 New Deal Presidential Advisors Rivals

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