He’s one of Washington’s premier defense experts, often on TV or huddling with generals, but that doesn’t mean Lawrence Korb doesn’t have time for the little guy. In fact, he tells Washington Secrets, Korb goes out of his way to help the littlest of little guys, every day giving a dollar to homeless people he encounters. “It’s usually a couple of dollars a day,” he says.
Korb, a Reagan-era Pentagon official now with the Obama-aligned Center for American Progress, says he started when a priest friend told him, “People say you shouldn’t give it to him because they’ll get a drink. And he says, ‘Give it to ‘em. Let them have a drink. They don’t have anything else.’”
Korb keeps singles in his wallet just for street people and says one homeless man stakes out his downtown office for a daily contribution.
