Franklin D Sumrow

HYDE PARK — In honor of the 75th anniversary of the establishment of the Works Progress Administration and the Rural Electrification Administration, the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential

D.C. police dragged about 10 handcuffed protesters out of a vacant downtown building Saturday, hours after the protesters, affiliated with the Occupy DC movement in McPherson Square, broke into the building to protest the city's treatment of homeless people. The masked occupiers broke into the abandoned Franklin School at 13th and K Streets Northwest Saturday, unfurling a black banner that read: "PUBLIC PROPERTY UNDER NEW MGMT COMMUNITY CONTROL."

California is a great place for studying the thinking — or lack of thinking ...Some would call their campaign cash donations “protection money,” in the same sense in which the Mafia collects protection money... None of this is peculiar to this industry, to California or to our times... When Al Gore was vice president of the United States, he phoned businesses from the White House to tell them how much money he expected them to contribute to political campaigns... Franklin D. Roosevelt’s son extorted a $200,000 loan from a grocery chain that was under federal investigation — and he never repaid the loan... Moreover, FDR spoke directly to the head of the chain to seal the deal.