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NEW YORK, NY - May 8, 2019: MANDATORY CREDIT Bill Tompkins/Getty Images on Plaque at 143 Avenue B describing the attibutes and accomplishments of New Yorker Harry Lloyd Hopkins . Harry Lloyd Hopkins (August 17, 1890 "u2013 January 29, 1946) was an American social worker, the 8th Secretary of Commerce, and one of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's closest advisors. He was one of the architects of the New Deal, especially the relief programs of the Works Progress Administration (WPA), which he directed and built into the largest employer in the country. In World War II, he was Roosevelt's chief diplomatic adviser and troubleshooter. In her 2013 book, American Betrayal, Diana West makes a cogent and well documented argument that Hopkins was a Soviet agent who advanced Stalinist interests through his considerable influence with President Franklin Roosevelt. Hopkins advanced and protected known Communists such as Harry Dexter White, Alger Hiss, and Lauchlin Currie. Photographed on May 8, 2019 in New York City. (Photo by Bill Tompkins/Getty Images)