The real Harry and Louise

Remember Harry and Louise from the early Clinton days? I don't, because I'm WAY too young. But it turns out that those two propagandist tools, who later joined Barack Obama in the fight for health care reform, weren't the only H&L running Washington. When FDR was president, Harry Hopkins, the Secretary of Commerce, married Louise Macy, the Paris editor of Harper's Bazaar, right inside the Oval Office. The president invited Harry and Louise to live at the White House, much to the dismay of the First Lady, who did not like Hopkins because he tended to drink one too many cocktails.

The most famous thing the couple was known for was a scandal in which a Canadian politician, who benefited from the Lend Lease Act, supposedly gave Macy an emerald as a wedding gift. The press attacked the new bride for accepting the gift, but everyone involved denied the charge. It was actually an antique diamond clip that had been in the Canadian's family for generations.

Source: FDR (pp. 645-6)