In Matt's mind, emissaries and adversaries are pretty much the same thing

He stayed in this position for nine years until, in 1931, New York Governor Franklin Roosevelt but Jesse Straus in charge of an agency called the Temporary Emergency Relief Administration.

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Hopkins was a hugely important figure in the New Deal as the administrator [of] relief and jobs programs such as the Federal Emergency Relief Administration (FERA), the Civil Works Administration (CWA), and the Works Progress Administration (WPA).

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As such, Hopkins was shifted out of the Commerce job and sent overseas as an unofficial adversary to Winston Churchill and Josef Stalin as well as to a key role in the Lend-Lease program.

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