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$30 "YS. A, CONFIDENTIAL 28. WASHINGTON CONFIDENTIAL (ACT ID A. The White House .Gang—-Past and Present BB ccinnine with the reign of King Franklin the First and his omnipotent consort, Queen Eleanor, it has been considered unsportsmanlike, un-American and unethical to pan the Admin- istration. The heir apparent (too apparent), Harry the Little, punishes ica mncjeete with dirty letters and toilet-wall words. We are prepared for we Tower. We got pretty friendly with the former royai family. Our news- paper beats frequently take us to the ginmiils, That's where most Roosevelt princefings play. The dowager goes in through the back door. We frequently ran into her at day-time chorus re- hearsals in the old Paradise night club, one of gangster “Chink” Sherman's enterprises. Eleanor was interested in the career of a protégé, a cute teen-ager from the Pennsylvania mines. The Broadway crowd had contributed to the elevation of her brood. The late President was elected Governor of New York with the support of numbers-sellers, dope-peddlers, bookies, “Dutch” Schultz and Jimmy Hines. Hines remained a member of the FDR braintrust until Dewey sent him to the pokey. In 1932, Hines and Frank Costello shared a suite at Chicago's Drake Hotel, where they helped in the convention fight which resulted in FDR’s presidential nomination. In return, Roosevelt gave the boys immunity. : Saratoga ran wide open in the Roosevelt and Lehman—"“my good right arm’—days as Governors. There were no pari-mutuels then. Gambling at the track was illegal. But bookmakers operated openly with their names over stalls, provided for them unlaw- fully by the racing associations. Lehman had a box at Saratoga. We frequently saw him at the races. We know he knew the aw was being violated. The two-way tie-up with the underworld worked both ways. James (Jimmy Got It) Roosevelt was in the juke-box business, in partnership with the Mills Novelty Company, manufacturers’ of Frank Costello's slot-machines. Anna Roosevelt borrowed some of /- Sa Sea Aaa lP EP Nha I ret os ee ed WASHINGTON the bankroll to Ward, millionair, Young Frank' plenty about th friend Marcantc Junior ran for 1 out of his distri: Elliot's unsay: Jimmy, oldest, It seems so lon insurance to g mother are still insurance incord he made a dea He also produc Coast with doy, Echanck wove acy involving inated movie 1 late editor of 1 no longer sid A conferenc Treasury aget and the U.S. ' take place. R minded that movie deal. ky dent?” He rz : The prose in that case ] newspapers 7 cause you we The prose tim elected § hospital, the secretly parc And did \ tO answer ¥ ghost write Which b: and the fluctice-ped |