On Jan. 19, 1941, defeated Republican presidential candidate Wendell Willkie met with President Franklin D. Roosevelt. In the course of their conversation, he asked FDR why he retained as a primary aide the controversial Harry Hopkins. Roosevelt, calling the chronically ill Hopkins a "half-man," referred to the loneliness of the presidency, the incessant demands most callers made upon him, and "the need for someone like Harry Hopkins who asks for nothing except to serve you."
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