American Woman, Part I

Published Jan 20, 2025, 8:00 AM

One of Joe Biden's last acts as president was declaring the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) the law of the land. Many people are wondering, What's the ERA? To find the answer, we're rebroadcasting our two-part series on the godmother of conservatism - Phyllis Schlafly - with a new discussion on the hidden purpose of the ERA. Along the way we get insight from conservative icon Michelle Malkin and Ed Martin, President Trump's pick for chief of staff at the Office of Management and Budget (OMB). Phyllis Schlafly embarked on one of the most epic political battles in American history…and in the process, uncovered the surprising truth at how to win in politics.

This is Red Pilled America. One of Joe Biden's last acts as president was a strange one. He claimed through declaration that the US Constitution had a new amendment.

Today, I affirm ecal Rights Amendment to have cleared all the necessaries hurdles to be added to the US Constitution.

Now, Ker Rights Amendments is the law the lamb.

Now the Americans were confused and began asking, what is this equal Rights Amendment? Well, it just so happens that Red Pilled America has produced a two part series on the epic, decade long battle over this amendment. It's called American Woman, and this story is at the core of everything this show stands for. Over the next two days, we're rebroadcasting this series that was originally broadcast on April fifteenth, twenty twenty oh and stick around after the last episode because we're going to have a brief discussion on what Biden and the Democrats are trying to do by claiming the Equal Rights Amendment is the law of the land. Now on with the show. One of the age old questions is how do you win in politics? Well, if you log onto social media or turn on cable news, everyone seems to have the answer, and he's going to beat us unless we can take him down on the economy.

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Every pundit claims to know the secret sauce on how to win the political game, But what's the right answer. How do you win in politics? I'm Patrick CARELCI.

And I'm Adriana Cortenes and.

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Stories. Hollywood doesn't want you to hear stories.

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If you're young or haven't dug into the history of conservatism, you may have never heard of Phyllis Schlaffley, but she is, without a doubt, one of the most significant figures in the history of politics.

Phyllis Slaughly was an activist housewife. That's how she described herself.

That's Michelle Malkin, wife, mom entrepreneur, author of Open Borders, Inc. And the torch bearer of the America First movement.

And she was a.

Tower figure among grassroots women who was able to earn a law degree and affect political life. Obviously the incredible role that she played in leading the opposition to the Equal Rights Amendment. I can look back now on my twenty five plus year career and see how much Phylish Schlaffly has made a huge impact in influencing the development of my overall philosophy.

Phyllis Schlaffley was America first before it was a buzzworthy, as every major right wing figure can confirm.

And then Phyllis Schlaffley passed away the mother of conservatism.

If you will, along with William F.

Buckley, I owe a special debt of thanks to Phylis and do all of you for your support of this administration's economic policies.

Harvard Law School was not admitting women in nineteen forty five, but her Harvard professors thought she was so brilliant they wanted to make an exception for her offered her admission to the Harvard Law School. And that's not even the best part of the story. Phyllis Schlaffley said.

No thanks.

Few will ever match Phyllis's conviction and tenacity. She stood literally on the front lines fighting against forces that threatened to upend families and sought to undermine the Judeo Christian values upon which our great nation was founded.

But I will tell you Phyllis endorse me at a time when it wasn't necessarily the thing to do, even the popular thing to do, And I will never forget that that had a huge impact. She was a great, great, powerful woman with a tremendous heart.

She had all the right friends and all the right enemies.

Phillis Schlaffley was out there running around the country basically saying women should stay.

In the home, A woman who never was at her home.

Phillis was a god fearing mother, wife, homeschooler, author, lawyer, and political activist, and even her most strident critics would admit that she was one of the greatest debaters ever stepped onto the stage.

I'm convinced that I speak for the majority of women. They don't want to be treated just like men.

That's Phyllis.

Just look at the Vietnam War. Did you hear any women rushing over to their draft board saying, I want my equal rights to be treated just like men. Did you hear any mothers rushing down to the draft board saying I love my daughters as much as my sons. You must take the daughters too. Absolutely not.

But we heard a lot of women who went down to the draft boards and said, I love my son.

We don't need this war.

Yes, but that doesn't stop war.

Doesn't.

Then we do have wars. That's because most of the countries are led by men, not by women.

Oh no, just look, we might get an Indira Gandhi and start a war.

Yes we might, very well. But I think that our efforts need to go towards stopping war, not stopping equality for women.

There is no more. There is no evidence that women are more peace like. Having Golden Mayra as heead of Israel certainly did not keep Israel out of war. Indeed, war starts for other parties. The we we cannot stop war altogether. I don't want to make well, maybe we can. You can keep on trying. But meanwhile, but if we don't that you told me it's much right to fight those wars.

If wars are right, then women have as much right and obligation to fight them as the men.

Which which war did you serve it?

I don't know anyway.

Phyllis made arguments almost half a century ago that appeared to be far fetched, but in the light of today. She looks prophetic.

Do we want a gender free society? You might ask, why do we pose the question that way?

But apparently there.

Are certain people in this country who would like a society in which we are denied are right to make reasonable differences of.

Treatment on account of gender. I do think that men and women are different and they have different rules, which is apparently the mod to the type of people who really want a gender free society.

And she was ahead of her time in other ways. Phyllis was quite possibly one of the first political figures to master the art of trolling.

I would like to think my husband Fred for letting me come today. I love to say that because it irritates the women's livers more than anything that I said.

Phyllis Schlaffley was known for many things, but she was, without a doubt, best known for pulling off the seemingly impossible.

Tonight an extraordinary lady. I think even her foremost critics would admit that it's rare in American politics or American circles that one person, one individual, can change a whole concept. Phyllis Schlaffley did that for.

Roughly a decade spanning the early nineteen seventies to the early nineteen eighties, Phyllish Slaffley, with her team of activist housewives, fearlessly took on the entire Washington d C. Establishment, Hollywood, the media, and the feminist movement, and her opponents had no idea what they'd unleashed.

When I look out at this crowd today, I know that you have the energy and the.

Dedication to defeat this assault.

On the family.

If you cared enough to come here today, I know that you can do it. You can turn back this side.

All across the country.

If you stay with us, the Agro Rights Amendment will die sixteen months from Tuesday.

Phyllis was a feisty force of nature, but she didn't out that way. She was actually rather shy in her youth. Phyllis Schlaffley came into the world as Phyllis Stewart on August fifteenth, nineteen twenty four.

I was born in Barnes Hospital in Saint Louis, Missouri. But my mother would say, I think she was the first generation of women who were having their children.

They're having their babies and hospitals.

She came from a long line of good American stock and could trace her ancestors back to the American Revolution.

Her parents were educated, her mother was educated.

That's Phyllis's oldest son, John Schlaffley.

Her grandfather was a lawyer.

Phyllis's father was a sales engineer for Westinghouse selling big equipment, and her mother had a graduate degree from Washington University in Saint Louis, but then became a full time homemaker.

And I started school at the local public school, the Demunne Public School, where I went to kindergarten, first and second grade. And we lived on the third floor of an apart and then when the Depression hit, we could no longer afford the apartment.

Ladies and gentlemen, the President of the United States.

The Great Depression impacted everyone, and Americans were concerned that it would never end. So President Franklin D. Roosevelt broadcast radio addresses to calm the public.

My friends, I want to talk for a few minutes with the people of the United States about banking.

The downturn would eventually hit Phyllis's father when he lost his job at Westinghouse. It was a tough blow for the young family, who'd recently had a new addition Phyllis's younger sister, Odell again John Schlafley.

They were in dire financial straits during the Great Depression. They had very limited resources, but she and her sister had a strong.

Family, and we took the train and went out to Bunk with an uncle of my mother who had a house in Los Angeles, and we were out there maybe six or eight months, and then came back and thereafter lived with my mother's parents in Saint Louis.

It was during these uncertain times that Phyllis was introduced to a lifelong pursuit.

I went in the fourth grade to the Hamilton School public school.

And that was where I was introduced to writing.

We had a teacher who would have us bring in a little paragraph of an essay every morning.

Phyllis's family would eventually move with her grandparents to a suburb of Saint Louis called Normandy, and her aunt and uncle would even live with them at one point.

When we lived in Normandy, I went to the public school there, which was called the Roosevelt School, and I went to the fifth and sixth grades there, and that's where again I pursued my writing. I was the editor of the school newspaper, which was called The Roosevelt Rocket.

Being in his fifties during the Great Depression, Phyllis's father had a hard time finding a new steady job.

There were.

Long periods when he didn't have work, but he would get odd jobs here and there.

The situation forced her mother into the workforce. Her first job was selling yard goods at a department store called Famous Bar in downtown Saint Louis. As Phyllis's middle school years approached, her mother came up with the creative way to get her daughter into the local private Catholic school.

And then when I got to the seventh grade, my mother made a deal with the Academy of the Sacred Heart, known locally as City House, and allowed them to cover my tuition by my mother fixing up their library.

Phyllis's mom eventually landed a steady job at the Saint Louis Art Museum as a librarian. To secure the position, the family needed to move within the city limits, so they rented a three bedroom, one bathroom apartment in Saint Louis. Phyllis, her mother, father, sister, and grandmother would all call it home, and it would be Phyllis's home base until she eventually married. Their family lived a lean existence. They never took a vacation. Both her parents were always working. When her father didn't have a job, he was designing a rotary gasoline engine. When Phyllis's mom was off of work, she'd spend her spare time writing a book on the social history of Saint Louis. So watching her parents work night and day instilled in Phyllis a strong work ethic and the need to get ready for the challenges of life.

I had the principal sense that I needed to get educated and go to college and be prepared for whatever problems life might present, which my mother had done and she was a great role model. So the depression hit, she was ready to support the family, and I grew up believing that I should be educated so I would be ready for whatever life brought my way.

Phyllis excelled at City House, gaining a reputation for being prepared, meticulous, and always at the top of her class. She could only remember one time where she dropped second to a classmate, and her excuse she fell ill with the measles again.

John Slapley, and Phyllis was very bright that was recognized by her teachers.

And also by the student body. Classmates that knew her at the time would use the words brilliant and serious to describe her. During her senior year in high school, the juniors at City House published a satirical newspaper jokingly writing quote Miss Phyllis Stewart nineteen forty one, president of the National Prehistoric Society, discovered a mistake in Webster's dictionary end quote. Phyllis's parents had always instilled in her the importance of getting an education, but they didn't have the means to pay for her college. So Phyllis decided to go to where she received a scholarship, a local Catholic college which was run by the Sacred Heart Nuns that also ran her high school. The problem was that the school was not very challenging for her, so she made what was at the time a drastic move. After less than a year, she decided to leave the college to go to her mother's alma mater, Washington University in Saint Louis. But the hiccup there was that her parents couldn't afford the tuition. But as are many things in life, the timing of her decision was fortunate.

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By June nineteen forty two, the Great Depression was over replaced by World War II. As a result, America was in need of ammunition. So Phyllis found work at a local munitions factory to finance her college education.

I worked my way through college in an ammunition plan, firing rifles and machine guns. I did all the ammunition tests before the ammunition was accepted by the government in World War Two, the accuracy tests, the velocity test, the penetration test, the airplane tests. There were many nights on the night shift when I fired five thousand rounds in a shift.

She was determined to take classes during the day rather than attend night school because she wanted to compete with the daytime student body.

I worked my way through college on the night shift, half the time from four to midnight and the other half from midnight to eight in the morning, and then I went to Washington University in Saint Louis in the morning.

So Phillis worked forty eight hours a week while carrying a full college load for two straight years. It was a brutal schedule with no time for socializing or dating. But the experience taught her that she could work hard like her parents and be efficient with her time. She graduated in nineteen forty four and made enough money from her two years as a gunner to pay for graduate school.

And I applied at both Radcliffe and Columbia was accepted both places.

Radcliffe was Harvard's girls' school.

Then I chose Radcliffe and had a year there and got a master's and it was a wonderfully air So that's when I started to have some social life with the students.

It was an exciting time for the young woman. She moved away from her parents for the first time to Massachusetts and lived with nine other girls and a house mother in a home at Radcliffe that was at the time two hundred and fifty years old. She took in the sights of the area and Phillis dated. She was a blondish, petite young thing, and as they say, she was easy on the eyes. At one point Phyllis even did some modeling. So with a beautiful mind and looks to match, you can imagine that Phyllis didn't have a hard time attracting dates. As for school, with the effects of FDR's New Deal in full swing. Phyllis realized that big government was becoming an ever growing aspect of American life. So she got her master's in government, which was what they called political science at the time. She graduated from Radcliffe in nineteen forty five and went home to Saint Louis, but soon after she decided she'd put her degree to work and give Washington, d C.

A try.

I first came home after I got my degree, and then I decided to get on the train and go to Washington, d C. Thinking I was going to get a job with the government, and an immediate hiring freeze was slapped on right after the war, and so I went to a private employment agency and signed up for them to find me a job. And this was the fortunate thing that happened. They found me a job with a little group then called the American Enterprise Association, which is now called the American Enterprise Institute, and there is a very big deal now.

But a condition of the job was that Phyllis needed to learn how to type, something that wasn't taught in high school curriculum at the time. She thought it was a bit oppressive, but In the end, she was thankful for the experience because it would turn out to be a skill she'd use to change the world. After about a year, Phyllis had her Phillip Washington, d C. She found her way back to her family home in Saint Louis and began looking for a local job.

And the first job I got was I applied for and got the job to run the care campaign of a candidate for Congress. And his name was Claude Bakewell, and he ran for Congress in the city of Saint Louis.

Phyllis, then only twenty two years old, with no political experience whatsoever, convinced the local politician to sign her on as his campaign manager, and she had to wear multiple hats.

Congressional campaigns were rather simple in those days. I was the campaign manager, the scheduler, and the ghostwriter, the speech writer. And it was a whirlwind campaign September and October, election in November, and he won.

It was her first job in politics, but the assignment was short, so while she ran the campaign, Phyllis was also on the lookout for a full time gig, and she found one.

The job was virtually created for me, and it was a job that was fifty percent with the Saint Louis Union Trust Company and fifty percent with the First National Bank, which were affiliated institutions in the same building, and my one desk supported both of those half jobs. And for the Saint Louis Union Trust Company, I did research for a vice president who had developed the idea that they took care of people's estates and if we didn't maintain the private enterprise system, their clients were going to lose all their money.

FDR's new deal moved the country towards socialism, so this fear was not far fetched. Phyllis was hired to do research and write a monthly newsletter for the financial services company.

And it was largely on socialism and communism, and I did the research for that.

Philis found a passion for fighting communism and for writing. The work was helping her develop a craft that she'd later turn into a conservative activism powerhouse in the not too distant future. But unbeknownst to her, the job was also about to make short term impact, one that would change her life forever.

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In nineteen forty six, Phillis got a job producing a monthly newsletter for a local financial services company. The pamphlet largely promoted the disadvantages of socialism, communism and big government, a position she wholeheartedly agreed with. She had fond memories of the job, not only because the work was interesting, but it also introduced her to someone that would change her life, a man by the name of Fred Schlaffley.

I was in scheduled a debate and I went down to the First National Bank in Saint Louis, which published a very fine newsletter, and they had published a newsletter on the subject. So I went to ask for the author of the newsletter, who I thought was a man, and it turned out to be Philip Schlaffley.

It was love at first sight for both of them. In Phyllis's eyes, it was more than Fred being a tall, dark and handsome irishman. It was that invisible force of love that can't be explained only felt. Fred was a lawyer, intelligent and fifteen years or senior, but that didn't bother Phyllis. Her own father was also older than her mother. Their interests seemed to align perfectly. They were both practicing Catholics, their politics were compatible. They both wanted kids, lots of them. Their courtships started in March nineteen forty nine, with the date a week and just seven months later, on October twentieth, Phyllis Stewart became Phyllis Schlafley. Their love was the stuff movies are made of. Fred had a gift with words, which could be seen in a story he wrote for her in nineteen fifty. It was titled The Fable of the Bashful Bachelor. He opened it saying, quote, once upon a time, there was a bashful bachelor who believed that a bachelor is a man who never made the same mistake once, and that marriage is a fine institution. But he wasn't ready for an institution. Not only was he a bashful bachelor, but he was also a lawyer bachelor, which made him even more cautious. Then he met the girl. He didn't believe in love at first sight, so he took a second look. He gave her a look that you could have poured on a waffle. He fell for her so hard and fast that he didn't have time to pull the rip cord on his emergency choot before she landed him. Fred was also a well read man. That was further opening Phyllis's eyes to not only the communist infiltration of America, but to the threat of media bias.

And in nineteen forty nine, the year I was married, Fred and I went to a lot of social events. There were pre wedding parties and there were post wedding parties, and we had an active social life. Everybody the conventional wisdom was Alger Hiss was innocent.

Alger Hiss was a high ranking American government of fie accused of spying for the Soviets in nineteen forty eight, but many newspapers were claiming he was innocent.

But Fred was a reader of the Chicago Tribune, which had the truth reporting about the Hiss and the trial, and he knew Algerhiss was.

Guilty as he could be.

So that was a real revelation of how the press was misleading people on the communist issue.

Alger would be found guilty of perjury and served forty four months in prison. They got to pass on the bigger charge of espionage. Roughly fifty years later, a bipartisan commission on Government Secrecy concluded that Alger Hisss was in fact a Soviet spy.

The liberals developed the idea that if you attack the Communists, you're just getting too close to them, and so they felt.

Compelled to defend the Communists.

So at the outset of their relationship, Fred redpilled his wife on the dangers of liberal media bias. After they married, Phyllis quit her job and moved with her new husband to Alton, Illinois, where Fred practiced law. Alton was a small town about a forty minute drive from Saint Louis, just across the Mississippi River on the Illinois side. Alton was prosperous, with an ample amount of local industries. Fred was well known in the town and was involved in all sorts of civic activities in the area. Phyllis fell into the same pattern. She was on the board of the YWCA and worked with the Red Cross. The two had their first son, John, the year following their marriage. Phyllis became settled into the role of a housewife, a role she loved, but that didn't mean Fred wasn't giving a hand at raising the kids, and.

You know, Fred was kind of I think, you know, he was a kind of a hands on father before that was considered to be the only politically correct way to raise children.

That's Carol Felsenthal, author of The Sweetheart of the Silent Majority, an excellent biography on Phyllis Schlaffley.

But I would say that he was very involved with his children in a way that most men of my generation I'm a baby boomer, were not.

She saw Fred's interest in helping raise the kids as something that was atypical for the time. Perhaps because of his legal practice. Fred was also an avid debater, and the skill rubbed off on Phyllis, which was a craft that came in handy when in nineteen fifty two her life took an unexpected turn.

Local party officials came and called on us one evening to try to talk Fred into running for Congress.

Because people thought.

That nineteen fifty two was going to be a big Republican year and the district at that time Madison and Saint Clair Counties, which were definitely Democratic Party counties, but there was hope and they wanted to talk Fred into running and This conversation went on for some time, and Fred had no interest in running. He liked to read the paper and talk about politics, but he was busy supporting his new family. And finally, in the course of the conversation, somebody said, well, Phyllis, why don't you be the candidate? And we kicked that around for a while, and the bottom line was that I agreed.

To do that.

Phillis's biographer, Carol Philsenthal, thinks that this turn of events really showed Fred's character.

Okay, so there's this incident that is really telling when the local Republican leaders in Illinois come to Fred and ask him to run for Congress, and he says no, he's too busy with his work. But aness is in the room, and somehow decision was made that Chow run. And you know, he was not at all, you know, granted that he had first refused, but I can imagine plenty of men who wouldn't have wanted the default to go to their wives, you know, And in that he was very supportive of that.

Phyllis, at the ripe old age of twenty seven, ran her own campaign. She wrote her own press releases, sent them out to the media herself. The district was small, so she never had to be away from home overnight. The work ethic she witnessed in her parents and personally developed while in college paid off when she won an upset victory in the primary. It was a big news event and a local reporter rushed out to her home to do a story on the fresh new candidate. The photographer snapped a picture of Phyllis that would later come to define her image as the spokeswoman for the American Housewife.

Winning in the primary was a big surprise, a big upset, and the reporter rushed out and there I was in the kitchen, cooking breakfast from my husband, and that picture was on front page of papers all over the country.

The caption to the picture read quote, Missus Schlafley cooks her husband's breakfast Wednesday morning after winning the nomination. She doesn't let political success interfere with her wifely duties. End quote. The caption didn't bother her in the least. In fact, it made her laugh.

The next big thing that happened in my life was the Illinois Republican State Convention. Now, this is a big event at the armory. I think in Springfield, Illinois. Now you're talking about pre air conditioning times and it detracts five thousand people. And because I was this person who was getting a lot of press as a Republican nominee, I was invited to be the keynote speaker at that convention, and that turned out to be a tremendous success. I hit all the hard issues and I got repeated applause during my speech, and that's what made me known all over Illinois as a Republican speaker. And following that, I just had an endless stream of Republican organizations and Lincoln Day Dinners and Republican Women's clubs, etc.

Who wanted me to come and speak.

Flashes of Phyllis's future stardom began to show for the first time.

Well, then we got into the general election and the Democrat was Mill Price, and he was very unhappy about running against a woman. We had a big debate at the Olton City Hall and he didn't want to shake hands with me. He was just very unhappy. In fact, he so worried about this election because I was having so much favorable press that he felt he had to get married. And so he got married during the campaign and took his bride to the Democratic National Convention for their honeymoon.

That year, nineteen fifty two, Phillis took a trip to the Republican National Convention where US Senator Bob Taft from Ohio was vying for the presidential nomination against Dwight D. Eisenhower, and it was there that Phillis got her first taste of establishment politics.

Bob Taft should have been the candidate, and the Eisenhower crowd made nasty, dishonest claims about Bob Taff, claiming he was stealing votes, which was ridiculous. He's one of the most honorable men who was ever in politics.

And then.

They went to Governor Earl Warren of California and made a deal with him that if he would throw his vote to the Eisenhower side on the crucial votes on credentials and rules which come up before the nomination, that he would be guaranteed the first vacancy on the US Supreme Court. And they made that deal. Eisenhower knew nothing about it, and the whole California delegation voted with the Eisenhower people, and that's basically why Eisenhower was nominated.

The Rockefeller Republicans, people we now refer to as Rhinos or Republicans in name only, had been grooming Eisenhower for some time to become the nominee.

Basically that control at that time emanated out of the Chase Manhattan Bank and the New York financial crowd, who thought.

They should be running everything.

They were the internationalists. They were the ones who were big into foreign aid handouts and involvements in the international scheme.

Witnessing how the Rockefeller Republicans stole the nomination from the grassroots candidate Bob Taft was an eye opening experience for Phyllis, one that would later define her activism. Ultimately, Phyllis lost her run for Congress because of the makeup of the electorate.

I was in a very heavily Democratic district and was when Eisenhower was running, and I did as well as Eisenhower in that district, but that wasn't good enough.

Reportedly the area was two to one Democrat over Republican, so Phyllis really didn't stand a chance, But it gave her the opportunity to see the process and get a conservative message out to the public. Over the years from nineteen fifty two to nineteen fifty nine, Phyllis continued her involvement in civics organizations, and Fred and her were also growing their family. In March nineteen fifty five, she had her son Bruce. In the fall of fifty six, she had her third son, Roger. While raising them, she did something that was atypical at the time. She nursed her babies for at least six months. Phyllis never had a nanny. She raised her kids herself and took on the task of homeschooling each one from kindergarten through second grade until they could read. By nineteen fifty nine, she had her first daughter, Liza. Around that same time, she was still finding time to give speeches.

I had a speech that I gave a great many times called the Paper Curtain, and it was a speech about how conservative books were kept out of the stream or given bad book reviews, and when a new book came out, they would pick a liberal to give a bad review to a conservative book, and that sort of thing, and it was a very popular speech. It kind of showed how the media were trying to manipulate the thinking of Americans.

At the time, liberal media bias was a relatively new concept and Phyllis was introducing it to many conservatives for the first time. By nineteen sixty, the conservative wing of the party was ready to depart from the Rockefeller Republicans and rally around the ideology of conservatism, and Phyllis played a part in that development.

Well.

It was an enormous fight between Gowater and Rockefeller that year. Rockefeller was the candidate of the Establishment, and we didn't want him for many reasons. We didn't believe he was a true conservative, and he had signed the abortion bill in New York, and we wanted a true conservative. And I had really launched Go Water before a national Republican audience. Again, I was the president of the Illinois Eneration and Republican Women, so I could pick the speaker, and I picked a gold Water for a main event, and it was an exciting day.

That's the year. You may remember or have learned that.

At the convention we nominated him and we marched around.

Pain Committee Senator from Arizona, the Honorable Barrick.

Goldwater Convention was fun in those days. We'd march around with our standards.

I do think David, it would be difficult to analyze this demonstration in behalf of the Senator from Arizona. There undoubtedly is a lot of political support down there on the convention's flaw in his behalf, there is also another kind of admiration for it. He is a charming right problem, much as you may differ with his political conviction. Yeah, he is a very agreeable, pleasant to talk to, altogether nice to call it to be around.

Well, that's true, And I think there is another factor at work in the convention, and it is that the conservative wing of the party has not had a victory in a long time. In nineteen fifty two it tried to nominate Senator Taft and lost to Eisenhower.

This time it would.

Perhaps would like to have Goldwater, It's not going to get.

It, And then go Water came up on the platform and said, Conservatives, this isn't our year. I'll see you in four years.

Might I ask that we could have quiet? Please, We have others to present tonight, and inpairedness to the party and the convention. As humble as I feel about this demonstration, might I ask that it cease so that we can get on with the show.

The writing was on the wall that Nixon had the votes.

As the GOP convenes in Chicago. Governor Nelson Rockefeller of New York dominates the scene in the early hours. Although declaredly not a candidate for either the presidential or vice presidential nominations, his proposals for the Republican platform, agreed to by Vice President Nixon, touched off a storm of controversy. Mister Nixon's overwhelming position as the GOP papriot was unshaken, but interest in the convention was roused beyond early expectations. As the convention got under way, there seemed no doubt that Richard Nixon would be the standard bearer of the Grand Old Party, but the contest or the position of his running mate seemed wide open, perhaps to be significantly influenced by the argument over the party platform, which threatened to carry to the floor of the convention itself. The twenty seventh Republican Convention, the foregone conclusion and its chief item of business, generates through national excitement, giving promise of one of the centuries most electrifying presidential campaign.

And so that's the way it was. But nineteen sixty really launched him as a national figure.

The conservative movement was taking shape and was really beginning to get fed up with the establishment. John F. Kennedy would of course win in nineteen sixty and Conservatives would have to wait another four years before making their next move. In the meantime, Phyllis continued adding to her family. She had her fourth son, Andy in nineteen sixty one. As the end of nineteen sixty three approached, Phyllis had a confirmed speech for that December when the unthinkable happened. While we may have won this election, a fight to restore our great nation is only beginning. Now is the time to take a s stand, and Patriot Mobile is leading the charge. As America's only Christian conservative wireless provider. Patriot Mobile offers a way to vote with your wallet without compromising on quality or convenience. Patriot Mobile isn't just about providing exceptional cell phone service. It's a call to action to defend our rights and freedoms. With Patriot Mobile, you'll get outstanding nationwide coverage because they operate on all three major networks. If you have a cell phone service today, you can get cell phone service with Patriot Mobile with a coverage guarantee. But the difference is every dollar you spend supports the first and second amendments, the sanctity of life, and our veterans and first responders. Switching is easy, keep your number, keep your phone, or upgrade. Their one hundred percent US based customer service support team will help you find the perfect plan right now. Go to Patriotmobile dot com, slash RPA or call nine seven to two Patriot and get a free month service with promo code RPA. Switch to Patriot Mobile today and defend freedom with every call and text you make. Visit Patriotmobile dot com, slash RPA or call nine seven to two meter Patriot.

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Welcome back. So, as the end of nineteen sixty three approached, Phyllis had a confirmed speech for that December when the unthinkable happened.

Here is a bulletin from CBS News in Dallas, Texas. Three shots were fired at President Kennaday's motorcade in downtown Dallas. There has been an attempt, as perhaps you know now, on the life of President Kennedy. He was wounded in an automobile driving from Dallas Airport into downtown Dallas, along with Governor con of Texas. They've been taken to Parkland Hospital there where their condition is as yet unknown. We have just learned, however, ever, that Father Hubert, one of the two priests called into the room, has administered the last sacrament of the church to President Kennedy from Dallas, Texas. The flash apparently official. President Kennedy died at one pm Central Standard time two o'clock Eastern Standard time, some thirty eight minutes ago.

The news was horrific.

I had a pre scheduled Republican speech in early December, but it just seemed in poor taste to give my typical Republican speech attacking Kennedy. And I've got to think up a new speech for this occasion which I was locked into.

It's often unexpected times like these that spark inspiration. Disgusted with how the globalists stole the nomination from Bob Taff during the nineteen fifty two GOP convention, and frustrated over how the Rockefeller wing influenced the party, Phyllis decided to give a speech on how the Republican presidential nominees are chosen, it would be an insider's view of the process. At around the same time, a friend of Phyllis's, John Stormer, self, published a book entitled None Dare Call It Treason that spelled out all the harm the Communists and Democrats had caused America. He came up with a smart marketing concept. On the final page of the book, he printed a pricing scale, where the more books you purchased, the less each book cost.

Is this sure genius?

And all of a sudden this book began to be everywhere, all the study groups and all the Republican clubs, and everybody was buying this book. And I thought, hum, I can do that with how Republican present candidates are chosen.

So over the first few months of nineteen sixty four, Phyllis developed her speeches on the topic into a book. In March, she mailed off the draft to an Ohio publisher, but there was one loose end that needed to be tied up.

The title and Barry Goldwater had used the expression a choice, not an echo. And the minute I heard that, I said, that's it.

The phrase was a reference to how the Rockefeller Republicans over the past seven presidential election cycles were just carbon copies of the Democrats. In the eyes of the GOP base, everything the Democrats would say, the Northeast globalist Republicans would raise their hands meekly and exclaim me too. Phyllis and others within the conservative grassroots wanted an actual choice, not an echo of the Democrats.

It was the grassroots for for Gowater against the party establishment. And as I say, the establishment was always concentrated in the Northeast in New York, and we had had two losers with Tom Dewey, and now they were trying to give us Rockefeller, and we were just simply fed up with it. We wanted the grassroots to nominate the candidate.

Her book told stories of how the nominees at the conventions of nineteen thirty six through nineteen sixty were all selected by Rockefeller Republicans. But Barry Goldwater he was different. He was a real conservative.

And now you come up with, now we have a candidate for sixty four, and don't let the kingmakers or the Rockefeller crowd take it away, because we all knew Rockefeller was the opposition.

So with the book title, now decided Phyllis came up with a novel idea.

And I developed this innovation which practically everybody does now, putting my picture on the front because I couldn't think what else to put on the front.

She invested in twenty five thousand copies and they were delivered to her garage on April thirtieth, nineteen sixty four.

And as soon as they arrived, I typed up a letter to send to my friends around the country. And the letter basically said, read this book today, and then buy enough copies to send to your delegates to the Republican National Convention.

The book sold like hotcakes. Local activists in California figured out that if they distributed the book in a neighborhood and then recanvassed that same area shortly after they found Phyllis's book converted many Lyndon B. Johnson Democrats and Rockefeller Republicans to Goldwater's cause. Phyllis estimated that A Choice Not an Echo sold about a million copies in California alone, where a future conservative star was about to get national exposure.

Thank you, and good evening.

By October twenty seventh, nineteen sixty four, Republicans had already nominated Barry Goldwater when a pre recorded speech in support of his candidacy was broadcasted.

February nineteenth at the University of Minnesota. Norman Thomas, six times candidate for president on the Socialist Party ticket, said if Barry Goldwater became president, he would stop the advance of socialism in the United States. I think that's exactly what he will do.

The speech, as it would later come to be known, was entitled A Time for Choosing, and was delivered by Ronald Reagan, a Hollywood actor who'd spoken out about the communist infiltration of the film industry in nineteen forty seven. Just a few years before endorsing Goldwater, Reagan walked away from the Democrat Party to become a Republican.

Oh When Reagan made his speech towards the end of the campaign, A Time for Choosing, everybody said, that's what we've been waiting to hear. And that's what created Ronald Reagan as a national figure, because everybody been waiting for Barry Goldwater to say all those things, and finally Rod and Reagan said them. In the end.

Lyndon B. Johnson benefited from the continued national mourning over JFK. So he easily beat Barry Goldwater for the presidency. Nineteen sixty four was an extraordinary year for Phyllis Schlaffley. Her book, A Choice on Necho, went on to sell three million copies. The candidate she helped introduce to a national audience, establish the soul of the conservative movement, and would set the stage for Reagan's future presidency. That same year, Phyllis had her sixth child, her daughter Anne. She had it all, a loving husband, six children, a successful book, lead roles and important civics organizations. She'd weathered the humble beginnings of the Great Depression, worked her way through college, and stood as a model for what an American woman could achieve. Phyllis was becoming a force of nature. But just as her talents were maturing, another American movement was forming, one that coalesced around a book entitled The Feminine Mystique. The movement, known as second Wave feminism, was one that looked to radically shift America to a culture without gender. The author of the book, Betty for Dan, became a leader of the movement and explained at the time how men would respond to this new social order.

My opinion the other half of the woman of the Revolution, the other half of women's liberation movement is the boys in my country and in yours wearing their hair.

Long, you know.

And those boys who are wearing their hair long, are saying no to that brutal, sadistic, tight lip, crew cut, big muscle, you know, arnest Hemingway, and kill bears when there are no bears to kill, and Nate Palm all the children in Vietnam Cambodia, to prove that I'm a man, you know, and be dominant and superior to everyone concerned, and never show any any softness. Well, these boys that are wearing their hair long are saying no. I can be tender, and I can be sensitive, and I can be compassionate, and I can admit sometimes that I'm afraid, and I can even cry. And I am a man, and I am my own man. And that man who is strong enough to be Geno, that is a new man.

Phyllis Schlaffley and Betty for Dan were on a collision course, and it wouldn't be long before they would clash on a national stage.

Should bar those indirect quotas which make women have to have higher grades than men to get into the same school and so on. But we already know the name on that law isn't being enforced in osname.

School where wheremen have to get higher grades to get into school?

Oh, this is this is name one.

This is true in the universities.

I can name it. I can name don't name thirty, just name one. Well, once women have to get higher grades to get into school, I.

Would suggest to the viewers to tell missus Shapley.

Uh.

Theation of the epic battle would last a decade, and the ripples of their fight are still reaching into American culture to this day.

Next time on red pilled America.

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They do want to take the life.

Out of the hall.

They do want to get them in the workforce, because then this will greatly increase the taxes and the bureaucracy of the federal government.

Clearly true that people rights in them is going to be passed.

Mister Say is going to let it pass yesterday.

All these years later, Virginia's legislature voted to ratify the equal It's a memoe.

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