Meh!

in their earlier years, they all hung out, so to speak, at the same two places? Which euphemistically involved a plant? (Trying not to post a spoiler, if I'm thinking of the same thing as you. Which I may not be!)

they were all progressive, they all followed the Democratic Social Doctrine, basic Social Democracy as opposed to Capital Democracy. Weird how it all reversed at and about the 19th 20th Century. About the same time Carl Marxism was beginning to take up the cause through agriculture and labor in the OLD COUNTRY. Ask yourself this, who did Churchill, FDR and Hitler have as a common enemy? Why were Americans, when we could least afford it, planning and building medium range bombers during the Great Depression, what were we afraid of... an attack from Canada, Mexican uprising? What? Now here we are AGAIN, same story over and over and over again, but this time our health is on the line. This time our Second Amendment is on the line. This time we execute who ever the executive branch deems fit, even political enemies. So what's the difference? It is different, I mean this time it's not like back then, right? It is different isn't it. They have good intension, right? I mean even Bush meant well, didn't he, I mean even Cheney they ALL know what they are doing right? So who did Theo, Franklin, and Barack emulate, their mentors? Who were their mentors?

Very well said!! Thank you!

They are distant relatives on the President's mother's side of his family.

But I wouldn't bet the farm on this answer.

All three attended both Columbia and Harvard.