[5][6] In May 1929, he moved to Washington, D.C., and began work as a junior clerk and stenographer for the Naturalization Service of the United States Department of Labor.

[1] Hopkins remained a detailee at the White House until 1943, when Senior Executive Clerk Rudolph Forster died.

[8] On June 2, 1971, President Richard Nixon held a formal retirement celebration for him in a White House Rose Garden ceremony.

During his remarks, President Nixon surprised Hopkins by awarding him the Presidential Medal of Freedom—the nation's highest civilian honor.

Not only has he borne heavy responsibilities with great efficiency and uncommon good sense, but each new President in turn has learned to rely on him as a fount of wisdom, a reservoir of experience and a rock of loyalty.