The Hopkins Touch: Harry Hopkins and the Forging of the Alliance to Defeat Hitler

At the Tehran conference outside the Soviet embassy, December 1943, left to right: General George Marshall shaking hands with British Ambassador to the Soviet Union, Archibald Clark Kerr, Hopkins, V. N. Pavlov (Stalin’s interpreter), Joseph Stalin and Vyacheslav Molotov (with mustache).(Photo by Franklin D. Roosevelt Library)

Hopkins at the 1940 Democratic national convention in Chicago with daughter Diana, age seven. From left to right behind them: John Hertz, founder of the Hertz car rental empire, thoroughbred race horse owner and a close friend of Hopkins; David, Hopkins’ twenty-eight-year-old son; and Edwin Daley.(Photo by Franklin D. Roosevelt Library)

Under the fourteen-foot guns of the British battleship Prince of Wales in August 1941, Churchill, Hopkins and British officers discuss the forthcoming meetings with President Roosevelt off the coast of Newfoundland in what became known as the Atlantic Conference.(Photo by Franklin D. Roosevelt Library)

Hopkins conferring with Roosevelt in the Oval Study, June 1942.(Photo by Franklin D. Roosevelt Library)

After visiting American troops in Rabat, Morocco, Hopkins, General Mark Clark (second from left), Roosevelt and General George Patton (right) discuss the North Africa campaign during a lunch in the field.(Photo by Franklin D. Roosevelt Library)

Roosevelt celebrating his sixty-first birthday in the roomy cabin of his Boeing Clipper with Admiral Leahy (left), Hopkins and Captain Howard Cone, the Clipper commander (right). They were on the final leg of their return from the Casablanca conference.(Photo by Franklin D. Roosevelt Library)