Figure 1.-- With so much opposition and so n\little in positive results , the Resettlement Administration A did not last long. The agency was dissolved (January 1, 1937), but the various settlement projects continued to function for some time. Here we see the school at the Pine Ridge Settkement in Georgia which was lated near the President's personal Warm Springs Project. The press caption here read, "Pine Mountain Settlement Welcomes the President: President Roosevelt listens to school children of the Pine Mountain Valley Homestead Project sing 'Happy Says are Here Again,' his campaign sing in 1932 and 1936, as they welcome him on his visit to gthe project March 31 [1938]. Mrs. Roosevelt and Harry L. Hopkins, WPA Administratoir accompanied him on the trip." Pine Mountain Valley managed to operate until 1945. Many descendants of the original 'settlers' still occupy the Valley Houses that were built when the project began. This was the largest of the three rural-industrial communities developed in the United States consisting of dairy, hog and poultry farms. There was also a fruit, cotton and grain farm. A total of 210 homestead units were completed. Harry Hopkins can be seen at the lower left here. Roosevelt chose him to head the Works Progress Administration--the key New Deal agency to end the Depression. The results were mixed. Roosevelt turned to him again to administer Lend Lease, the key non-military agency to win World War II. Here the results were a stunning success.

With so much opposition and so little in positive results , the Resettlement Administration (RA) did not last long. The agency was dissolved (January 1, 1937). This was a great disappointment to Tugwell as well as Roosevelt intimate Harry Hopkins. The First Lady was especially disappointed. We are not sure just what the President's attitude was. But we notice The President and First Lady visiting some of the projects even after the RA projects were folded into Farm Security Administration. The FA was disolved even before the Republican and conservative victories undercut New Deal programs (November 1938). This was of course just at the time that Hitler began his aggressions and the New Deal began to phase down as America began to prepare for the coming War. Defense contracts from Euriope and the American military began to create jobs that in short order would end Depression. It also shifted the President's attention from domestic issues to the need to deal with Fascist aggression.

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