U.S. At War: Return

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Harry Hopkins, still gaunt from long illness, was finally back on his old six-day work week at the White House. Each day last week his familiar slouched figure could be seen entering the East Wing at 9 a.m. Shut off, even from telephone calls and intimate friends, he worked until 7 p.m., and sometimes far into the evening. His work baskets were usually filled with details of his current specialty: relations between the U.S., Russia and Britain. (He did much of the skull-work for Franklin Roosevelt's meeting with Churchill at Quebec.)

He was still a mystery man to the U.S. Only a few understood that the deep bond between the Squire of Hyde Park and the Iowa harnessmaker's son was based on Hopkins' absolute personal loyalty to the man he idolizes. After eleven years of the kaleidoscopic changes of the New Deal, Harry Hopkins was still the man Franklin Roosevelt most trusts.