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A more accurate statement would be that NIH wanted to curtail the use HRT in women and created a study to produce the desired outcome.  The result was the WHI which was a dumpster fire of scientific malpractice.  Entire books have been written about the WHI misconduct: Estrogen Matters by Avrum Bluming and Carol Tavris.  Unfortunately the idea pushed out by the WHI in their famous press conference, that HRT is bad for women  (even though their own data didn't support their statements), persists to today.

It is my view that there is no intervention for women that has a greater impact on health and longevity than HRT.  The Nurse's Health Study showed lower overall mortality for women who received HRT vs those that didn't, with a very large reduction in cardiovascular disease.  Nurses’ Health Study: Estrogen associated with lower cardiovascular disease risk.  I can't find the source data on overall mortality at the moment, but the effect size is huge.  If I remember correctly it's about the same difference as one would get if you could completely cure all cancer.