The First Lady of World War II with Shannon McKenna Schmidt
The Preamble
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Eleanor Roosevelt's Milk Run
The milk run was a slang term coined by flying crews to describe a routine mission or one where minimal resistance from the enemy was anticipated. The idea that Eleanor Roosevelt was traveling under those circumstances, you know, where she is on all of these military planes really did have to feel to the people she was visiting. "Many a servicemen that she met changed their minds about her when they saw her hardy hood"
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