SnooWalruses3945 t1_j5tlbsl wrote on January 25, 2023 at 2:03 PM

Reply to comment by Pay08 in TIL Amelia Earhart and Eleanor Roosevelt once during a White House event, commandeered an airplane, and went on a joyride to Baltimore. by No_Visit8945

It wasn’t a government plane so not sure what taxpayer money was wasted.

Pay08 t1_j5trwuw wrote on January 25, 2023 at 2:50 PM

You think she paid for the fuel? Ans even if she did, she got taxpayer money for her job, which included attending official functions.

SnooWalruses3945 t1_j5u3x4y wrote on January 25, 2023 at 4:09 PM

You think the First Lady was drawing a salary in 1933? It was a commercial aircraft. I’m sure they loved the publicity of two of the most famous women in the US flying in one of those planes. However, you think that they asked the ladies to pay for the fuel, and Eleanor said, “just bill it to the government”? Keep doubling down on your statement though. Makes you look cool.