Krieger should reconsider, given the history here. After Amelia Earhart rode in an airplane while two men flew it across the Atlantic in 1928, she celebrated her feminist achievement with a visit to the White House.
After her June 1928 transatlantic flight with Wilmer Stultz and Louis Gordon, in which she became the first woman to fly the Atlantic, Amelia Earhart was given a hero’s welcome wherever she went. Receptions in Southampton and London, England, were followed by a ticker-tape parade through New York City and a visit with President Calvin Coolidge at the White House.
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