other fascinating factoids

Still watching the Roosevelt saga. Lots of fascinating facts this evening about the "new deal". But one of the bits I found most entertaining was the fact that Eleanor had the freedom to go on a driving trip with a girl friend while she was First Lady, without any security force accompanying them.  She was required to take a pistol with her but didn't take any bullets along for it.  FDR also was able, in a car he had modified to have only hand controls, to drive around the countryside near Warm Springs and visit with the people who lived in the neighborhood. I can't imagine any recent president or first lady getting away with just taking off on their own.