1 00:00:01,435 --> 00:00:03,571 I was pregnant, and I was scared. 2 00:00:09,243 --> 00:00:11,379 This is my deathbed confession. 3 00:00:37,071 --> 00:00:41,409 - The Positive Woman looks upon her femaleness and her fertility 4 00:00:41,442 --> 00:00:45,346 as part of her purpose, her potential, and her power. 5 00:00:45,379 --> 00:00:47,381 She starts with the knowledge 6 00:00:47,415 --> 00:00:49,917 that America is the greatest country in the world, 7 00:00:49,950 --> 00:00:52,920 and she must do her part to keep it that way. 8 00:00:54,822 --> 00:00:57,391 Now the women's liberation movement-- 9 00:00:57,425 --> 00:00:59,893 they like to characterize the, uh, 10 00:00:59,927 --> 00:01:01,929 Positive Woman as negative... 11 00:01:01,962 --> 00:01:03,431 - ...as "Anti," 12 00:01:03,464 --> 00:01:06,033 when in fact, the opposite is true, 13 00:01:06,066 --> 00:01:11,439 because the Positive Woman is pro-family and pro-life... 14 00:01:11,472 --> 00:01:13,541 - ...and pro-American. 15 00:01:14,842 --> 00:01:16,310 There's a question? 16 00:01:16,344 --> 00:01:19,480 H-How does the Positive Woman cope with threats 17 00:01:19,513 --> 00:01:21,815 to our nation's security both within our borders 18 00:01:21,849 --> 00:01:24,084 as well as outside? 19 00:01:24,118 --> 00:01:25,753 - My mother's now your mother's ringer. 20 00:01:25,786 --> 00:01:27,121 Unbelievable. - You're referring, no doubt, 21 00:01:27,155 --> 00:01:29,390 to our current political crisis? 22 00:01:29,423 --> 00:01:31,725 Well, our last election was a rout. 23 00:01:31,759 --> 00:01:34,495 There's no other way of describing it. 24 00:01:34,528 --> 00:01:36,497 The liberals now control the courts 25 00:01:36,530 --> 00:01:39,600 and the legislative and executive branches 26 00:01:39,633 --> 00:01:41,101 and the media. 27 00:01:41,135 --> 00:01:43,404 And in Jimmy Carter, well, 28 00:01:43,437 --> 00:01:46,607 we have a president who is weak on foreign policy, 29 00:01:46,640 --> 00:01:49,677 is complacent in the face of the growing red menace, 30 00:01:49,710 --> 00:01:53,847 and he is ill-prepared to deal with the nuclear genie 31 00:01:53,881 --> 00:01:56,116 that is well and truly out of the bottle, 32 00:01:56,150 --> 00:02:00,154 not to mention that within weeks of his inauguration, 33 00:02:00,188 --> 00:02:03,524 the First Lady ruthlessly lobbied Indiana 34 00:02:03,557 --> 00:02:07,661 to become the 35th state to ratify the ERA. 35 00:02:07,695 --> 00:02:09,096 - Your mother seems... - She's been like this 36 00:02:09,129 --> 00:02:10,764 since the election. - Shh, shh. 37 00:02:10,798 --> 00:02:12,933 - So thank you very much. 38 00:02:12,966 --> 00:02:16,003 Uh, this is just a small appetizer from my new book, 39 00:02:16,036 --> 00:02:18,472 "The Power of the Positive Woman," 40 00:02:18,506 --> 00:02:20,374 and if you want the full meal, 41 00:02:20,408 --> 00:02:24,144 you'll need to buy a copy from me for $8.95. 42 00:02:24,178 --> 00:02:26,146 Thank you. 43 00:02:35,155 --> 00:02:36,690 Oh, thank you. 44 00:02:36,724 --> 00:02:38,626 Hi! 45 00:02:38,659 --> 00:02:40,861 Phyl, sit up straight, sweetheart. 46 00:02:40,894 --> 00:02:43,631 - You were wonderful. - Oh, you were, too. 47 00:02:43,664 --> 00:02:47,167 - We should eat something before we head off to the theater. 48 00:02:47,201 --> 00:02:48,902 - I can't believe I drove all this way from Boston 49 00:02:48,936 --> 00:02:50,404 for "The King and I." 50 00:02:50,438 --> 00:02:52,039 - I thought I was coming in for "A Chorus Line." 51 00:02:52,072 --> 00:02:53,374 - "The King and I" is a classic. 52 00:02:53,407 --> 00:02:55,142 - Clive Barnes called "A Chorus Line" 53 00:02:55,175 --> 00:02:56,544 an occasion of joy. - Oh, Clive Barnes. 54 00:02:56,577 --> 00:02:57,911 - "Like a rainbow after a thunderstorm." 55 00:02:57,945 --> 00:03:00,180 - Is Clive Barnes a weatherman? - Oh, she's spent 56 00:03:00,214 --> 00:03:01,915 one semester at Princeton, and she's already spouting 57 00:03:01,949 --> 00:03:04,084 this liberal nonsense like it's gospel. 58 00:03:04,117 --> 00:03:06,354 - You have just a bit of perspiration right there. 59 00:03:06,387 --> 00:03:08,021 - Oh. - That's perfect. 60 00:03:08,055 --> 00:03:11,058 - You're a traitor to your sex by waging war against women! 61 00:03:31,144 --> 00:03:32,846 - Well, I'm--I'm glad it wasn't a cherry pie, 62 00:03:32,880 --> 00:03:35,883 because it would've stained my dress. 63 00:04:38,879 --> 00:04:40,948 - Is it...tongue? 64 00:04:40,981 --> 00:04:45,953 - Mm. And some kind of... fish spread. 65 00:04:45,986 --> 00:04:47,321 - That's a whitefish spread. 66 00:04:47,355 --> 00:04:49,757 It's an old Cossack family recipe 67 00:04:49,790 --> 00:04:51,959 from her father's butcher shop. 68 00:04:53,527 --> 00:04:56,530 Say you're on a diet. That's what I always say. 69 00:04:56,564 --> 00:04:58,832 - You are always on a diet. 70 00:04:58,866 --> 00:05:01,268 - And we're here to cheer her up. 71 00:05:01,301 --> 00:05:03,637 How bad is she? 72 00:05:03,671 --> 00:05:08,476 - Just... don't comment on her hair. 73 00:05:08,509 --> 00:05:10,511 I'm happy you're here to give her some good news. 74 00:05:10,544 --> 00:05:14,214 - I hope she sees it that way. It's not even a paid position. 75 00:05:16,817 --> 00:05:18,352 - I really thought she would win. 76 00:05:19,853 --> 00:05:21,822 - No one's eating. Is someone sick? 77 00:05:23,190 --> 00:05:25,192 - I'm not interrupting. 78 00:05:25,225 --> 00:05:27,395 I just came out to sneak myself a sandwich. 79 00:05:27,428 --> 00:05:29,997 - Oh, excuse my hair. I haven't been able to find anyone 80 00:05:30,030 --> 00:05:31,965 as good as Lily in the city. 81 00:05:31,999 --> 00:05:34,635 - You haven't found anyone as good in New York City. 82 00:05:34,668 --> 00:05:37,638 - Uh, well, it was a walk from the House Beauty Parlor 83 00:05:37,671 --> 00:05:40,574 to the Capitol that really made my hair shine. 84 00:05:40,608 --> 00:05:43,243 No one's touched the liver. 85 00:05:43,276 --> 00:05:44,912 - Mmm. Did Bella tell you that 86 00:05:44,945 --> 00:05:47,214 we're going to Southern Italy next month? 87 00:05:47,247 --> 00:05:48,482 - Yeah, we're taking a food tour, 88 00:05:48,516 --> 00:05:50,984 see who makes the better salami. 89 00:05:51,018 --> 00:05:52,653 - It's called salumi. - No, no, "salumi" 90 00:05:52,686 --> 00:05:55,589 is the umbrella term for all cured meats. 91 00:05:55,623 --> 00:05:59,927 - I have been waiting 25 years to get you back there. 92 00:06:01,962 --> 00:06:05,699 I'd like to, uh, make a toast to Midge... 93 00:06:06,700 --> 00:06:11,104 ...on being the first female assistant to the president. 94 00:06:11,138 --> 00:06:13,340 I can't believe it was only five years ago 95 00:06:13,373 --> 00:06:15,008 you were my assistant at the convention, 96 00:06:15,042 --> 00:06:17,377 running around, delivering papers. 97 00:06:18,779 --> 00:06:20,080 - Cheers. 98 00:06:20,113 --> 00:06:22,282 - Cheers. - You clearly have Carter's ear. 99 00:06:22,315 --> 00:06:24,051 Use it wisely. 100 00:06:24,084 --> 00:06:26,186 - Iusing it wisely. 101 00:06:26,219 --> 00:06:30,290 I have asked the president to resurrect Jill's commission, 102 00:06:30,323 --> 00:06:32,760 which means the first ever national women's convention 103 00:06:32,793 --> 00:06:34,562 is back from the dead. 104 00:06:34,595 --> 00:06:36,930 - The one that I-- 105 00:06:36,964 --> 00:06:40,701 - Funded with your bill. Yes. It's scheduled for November. 106 00:06:40,734 --> 00:06:42,703 Just need to find the right person to run it. 107 00:06:42,736 --> 00:06:44,872 Not this November. 108 00:06:44,905 --> 00:06:46,540 That's not enough time. 109 00:06:46,574 --> 00:06:49,042 Uh, it's designed to be run like a political party convention, 110 00:06:49,076 --> 00:06:52,245 only it's bipartisan-- uh, an even bigger undertaking. 111 00:06:52,279 --> 00:06:53,914 It takes years to plan. 112 00:06:53,947 --> 00:06:56,216 - Which is why I've asked the president to appoint you 113 00:06:56,249 --> 00:06:58,552 as Presiding Officer of the commission. 114 00:06:58,586 --> 00:07:02,923 - Only you could pull off something this ambitious. 115 00:07:02,956 --> 00:07:04,625 We could get so much done. 116 00:07:09,930 --> 00:07:12,666 - I would certainly be the right man for the job. 117 00:07:14,134 --> 00:07:16,403 - Cheers. 118 00:07:36,123 --> 00:07:37,858 - You're still up. 119 00:07:42,162 --> 00:07:43,363 It's late. Come to bed. 120 00:07:43,396 --> 00:07:45,232 - Hmm. 121 00:07:48,335 --> 00:07:50,638 - That was a great slogan. 122 00:07:50,671 --> 00:07:53,173 - Hmm. It was. 123 00:07:53,206 --> 00:07:55,976 But Bella Abzug won with it. 124 00:07:58,478 --> 00:08:02,650 The most socialist, anti-war, radical libber 125 00:08:02,683 --> 00:08:05,252 had the same slogan as me. 126 00:08:07,888 --> 00:08:09,156 - Don't make it personal. 127 00:08:12,392 --> 00:08:14,962 Come to bed. 128 00:08:29,342 --> 00:08:31,044 - I want you to imagine 129 00:08:31,078 --> 00:08:35,415 a group of Native Alaskan women getting on a bus in Fairbanks, 130 00:08:35,448 --> 00:08:39,587 Appalachian women getting on a bus in Beattyville, 131 00:08:39,620 --> 00:08:43,223 homemakers getting on a bus in Toledo. 132 00:08:43,256 --> 00:08:46,493 They're all traveling to represent their state, 133 00:08:46,526 --> 00:08:49,863 all of them yearning to have a voice in government, 134 00:08:49,897 --> 00:08:56,103 to vote on issues that affect their lives. 135 00:08:57,938 --> 00:09:01,875 It's easier to imagine if your eyes are closed. 136 00:09:05,078 --> 00:09:07,247 When the state meetings are over, 137 00:09:07,280 --> 00:09:10,350 all these buses, hundreds and hundreds of them 138 00:09:10,383 --> 00:09:13,754 with women from all walks of life, 139 00:09:13,787 --> 00:09:16,089 make their way to Houston. 140 00:09:16,123 --> 00:09:20,227 We have very limited resources. 141 00:09:22,562 --> 00:09:26,399 Do we wanna spend our money on these buses, 142 00:09:26,433 --> 00:09:29,302 or on pretty skirts to decorate tables on the convention floor? 143 00:09:29,336 --> 00:09:32,773 - Fine. No table skirts. Everyone, open your eyes. 144 00:09:32,806 --> 00:09:34,708 You're gonna give a 10-minute meditation 145 00:09:34,742 --> 00:09:36,777 on every line item in the budget? 146 00:09:36,810 --> 00:09:39,579 - No, just the table skirts felt frivolous. 147 00:09:39,613 --> 00:09:41,448 - Moving on. Coretta Scott King 148 00:09:41,481 --> 00:09:43,283 has agreed to join the commission 149 00:09:43,316 --> 00:09:46,119 and chair the minority rights committee. 150 00:09:46,153 --> 00:09:47,220 - Oh. 151 00:09:47,254 --> 00:09:48,288 That's fabulous. 152 00:09:48,321 --> 00:09:50,791 - Uh, we have one more spot. 153 00:09:50,824 --> 00:09:52,760 As much as I hate to say it, 154 00:09:52,793 --> 00:09:55,629 I think we should appoint Betty as our final commissioner. 155 00:09:55,663 --> 00:09:58,065 - Betty Friedan? No. 156 00:09:58,098 --> 00:09:59,733 - Uh, I know she's divisive and a pain in the ass, 157 00:09:59,767 --> 00:10:01,568 but she is a pioneer. 158 00:10:01,601 --> 00:10:03,336 - Who almost singlehandedly kept lesbians out of the movement 159 00:10:03,370 --> 00:10:05,105 for a decade. 160 00:10:05,138 --> 00:10:06,339 - And we've been making a big push at the state meetings 161 00:10:06,373 --> 00:10:08,575 to approve a gay rights resolution. 162 00:10:08,608 --> 00:10:12,012 - If the resolution makes it on the agenda in Houston, 163 00:10:12,045 --> 00:10:14,682 will the president still get up onstage for opening ceremonies? 164 00:10:14,715 --> 00:10:17,617 - I'll make sure of it. - If Betty is on that stage, 165 00:10:17,651 --> 00:10:19,820 it'll send a message that we're not welcome. 166 00:10:19,853 --> 00:10:21,689 I'll resign. - So now we're not gonna have 167 00:10:21,722 --> 00:10:23,590 people we disagree with participate? 168 00:10:23,623 --> 00:10:25,826 - Not if we want Houston to be inclusive. 169 00:10:25,859 --> 00:10:27,094 - You wanna be inclusive by excluding? 170 00:10:27,127 --> 00:10:28,628 Would you listen to yourself? 171 00:10:28,662 --> 00:10:31,198 - You cannot appoint her. - Okay. Okay, let's calm down. 172 00:10:33,901 --> 00:10:36,670 - This is just how we talk in New York City. 173 00:10:36,704 --> 00:10:38,706 - The West Side of New York City. 174 00:10:45,645 --> 00:10:47,280 - This is exactly 175 00:10:47,314 --> 00:10:49,817 what I warned would happen with the Democrats in charge. 176 00:10:49,850 --> 00:10:53,453 It's a federally funded festival for frustrated feminists. 177 00:10:53,486 --> 00:10:54,521 - They're gonna ram a whole platform 178 00:10:54,554 --> 00:10:56,056 of lefty issues down our throats. 179 00:10:56,089 --> 00:10:57,858 - Yes. 180 00:10:57,891 --> 00:11:00,027 - Will the libbers use this to get those last three states? 181 00:11:00,060 --> 00:11:02,229 - Well, they put that Marxist Bella Abzug in charge, 182 00:11:02,262 --> 00:11:04,197 so I would guess yes, 183 00:11:04,231 --> 00:11:06,066 but that doesn't mean we're gonna roll over 184 00:11:06,099 --> 00:11:07,801 and let them win. 185 00:11:07,835 --> 00:11:09,402 - They are truly the horribles. - Mm-hmm. 186 00:11:09,436 --> 00:11:11,538 - Deviants and murderers. 187 00:11:11,571 --> 00:11:13,506 Get ready to see our hard-earned dollars 188 00:11:13,540 --> 00:11:15,508 go to fund abortion on demand, lesbianism, 189 00:11:15,542 --> 00:11:17,210 shelters for beaten wives. 190 00:11:17,244 --> 00:11:20,013 - Well, I think the husband will be more inclined to beat her... 191 00:11:20,047 --> 00:11:21,214 - ...if he thinks she's gonna 192 00:11:21,248 --> 00:11:23,583 get a vacation funded by his tax dollar. 193 00:11:23,616 --> 00:11:25,853 - But, uh, we should organize a counter rally 194 00:11:25,886 --> 00:11:27,387 to protest the convention. 195 00:11:27,420 --> 00:11:29,189 Grab the attention of the press. 196 00:11:29,222 --> 00:11:30,991 - No. No, no, no, no, no. No, no, no, wait a minute. 197 00:11:31,024 --> 00:11:32,692 I do have a strategy. 198 00:11:32,726 --> 00:11:35,395 Now Bella Abzug's commission is holding meetings 199 00:11:35,428 --> 00:11:37,230 in every state this summer, 200 00:11:37,264 --> 00:11:39,266 where they will elect representatives 201 00:11:39,299 --> 00:11:41,769 to go to this national convention in Houston, 202 00:11:41,802 --> 00:11:45,839 and each of these state meetings will be our battleground. 203 00:11:45,873 --> 00:11:48,708 Now we need to get ourselves elected so that we can get seats 204 00:11:48,742 --> 00:11:50,277 at the convention. 205 00:11:50,310 --> 00:11:51,945 - Why shouldn't conservative women have a voice 206 00:11:51,979 --> 00:11:53,346 on women's issues? 207 00:11:53,380 --> 00:11:54,948 - Well, that's right. That's exactly my point. 208 00:11:54,982 --> 00:11:58,351 - So anyone can run, not just the liberals? 209 00:11:58,385 --> 00:12:01,288 - Yes, it's called the electoral process. 210 00:12:01,321 --> 00:12:02,722 - Well, it's, um... 211 00:12:02,756 --> 00:12:05,025 it's kind of like the Pillsbury Bake-Off Contest-- 212 00:12:05,058 --> 00:12:07,460 thousands of women from every state competing 213 00:12:07,494 --> 00:12:09,229 for a spot on the national competition 214 00:12:09,262 --> 00:12:11,264 to see who has the best recipes. 215 00:12:11,298 --> 00:12:13,433 - And we have to get pro-family bakers, 216 00:12:13,466 --> 00:12:15,268 or we'll be stuck with a bunch 217 00:12:15,302 --> 00:12:17,437 of liberal recipes in our cookbook 218 00:12:17,470 --> 00:12:21,308 and force-fed ERA brownies, abortion cookies, 219 00:12:21,341 --> 00:12:23,911 and lesbian pies till Kingdom come. 220 00:12:23,944 --> 00:12:25,813 - Yes, well, every metaphor has its limits, Rosemary. 221 00:12:27,480 --> 00:12:31,284 - Well, if we're going to war, we'll need protection. 222 00:12:31,318 --> 00:12:34,621 I have some men that would be willing to help, 223 00:12:34,654 --> 00:12:36,556 make sure we're not harmed. 224 00:12:36,589 --> 00:12:38,391 - Do you really think it's that dangerous? 225 00:12:38,425 --> 00:12:39,459 - Look at what they did to Phyllis. 226 00:12:39,492 --> 00:12:41,995 - Oh! It doesn't hurt a bit. 227 00:12:42,029 --> 00:12:44,564 But we do need to be smart about this. 228 00:12:44,597 --> 00:12:46,133 Because if we're gonna take over their conference 229 00:12:46,166 --> 00:12:49,302 by winning seats, they can't see us coming. 230 00:12:49,336 --> 00:12:50,971 - Frankly, Phyllis, I have concerns 231 00:12:51,004 --> 00:12:53,240 about you being the leader of this operation. 232 00:12:53,273 --> 00:12:54,975 You're a lightning rod. 233 00:12:56,676 --> 00:12:58,311 - I think she has a point. 234 00:13:00,613 --> 00:13:05,785 Well, clearly, you're a target, given your...pirate status. 235 00:13:05,819 --> 00:13:08,155 What--What if you get pied again or worse? 236 00:13:08,188 --> 00:13:09,857 - I am not a pirate. 237 00:13:09,890 --> 00:13:14,127 - I only meant let us do the work on the ground, 238 00:13:14,161 --> 00:13:16,229 and you can recover and strategize from home. 239 00:13:18,031 --> 00:13:20,700 - Yeah, well, I can see the wisdom in that. 240 00:13:20,733 --> 00:13:24,671 - Well, I think it's clear who should be out front. 241 00:13:24,704 --> 00:13:28,041 - I have done a pretty good job of running the Illinois chapter 242 00:13:28,075 --> 00:13:29,776 of STOP ERA. 243 00:13:29,809 --> 00:13:33,513 I would be honored to take your place on the front lines. 244 00:13:33,546 --> 00:13:36,149 Yes. 245 00:13:36,183 --> 00:13:39,853 - Congratulations, Rosemary. You've just been drafted. 246 00:13:39,887 --> 00:13:42,322 - Well... 247 00:13:42,355 --> 00:13:46,026 since STOP ERA and Eagle Forum are so closely tied 248 00:13:46,059 --> 00:13:48,862 to your name and image, I think it might be a good idea 249 00:13:48,896 --> 00:13:51,631 for me to create an ad hoc organization 250 00:13:51,664 --> 00:13:53,800 with myself as president, 251 00:13:53,833 --> 00:13:55,802 just to be sure the libbers don't see us coming 252 00:13:55,835 --> 00:13:58,238 until it's too late... 253 00:13:58,271 --> 00:13:59,739 like you said. 254 00:14:05,946 --> 00:14:08,882 - The South Carolina office was burglarized? 255 00:14:08,916 --> 00:14:10,750 - In broad daylight. The staff was there. The door was open. 256 00:14:10,783 --> 00:14:12,652 - By who? 257 00:14:12,685 --> 00:14:15,055 - Some group calling themselves Citizen's Review Committee. 258 00:14:15,088 --> 00:14:17,324 Find out what they took. 259 00:14:17,357 --> 00:14:18,825 - I'm not your assistant. 260 00:14:18,858 --> 00:14:22,562 Judy, what'd they take?! 261 00:14:22,595 --> 00:14:24,064 - It was like "The Pink Panther." 262 00:14:24,097 --> 00:14:26,934 First, I created a diversion. - I don't wanna know. 263 00:14:26,967 --> 00:14:30,003 The Eagle Forum is a law-abiding organization. 264 00:14:30,037 --> 00:14:32,405 - Well, Eagle Forum is, 265 00:14:32,439 --> 00:14:34,241 but the Citizen's Review Committee... 266 00:14:34,274 --> 00:14:35,775 - Don't look at me. 267 00:14:35,808 --> 00:14:38,111 I was setting up our hospitality suite. 268 00:14:38,145 --> 00:14:40,680 - We should have a training manual like this. 269 00:14:40,713 --> 00:14:42,349 We could write our own. 270 00:14:42,382 --> 00:14:44,184 - Maybe even steal their typeface to make it 271 00:14:44,217 --> 00:14:46,786 look like we're an official part of their commission. 272 00:14:46,819 --> 00:14:49,756 - "The Citizen's Review Committee hospitality suite 273 00:14:49,789 --> 00:14:52,725 "will be under 24-hour security supervision 274 00:14:52,759 --> 00:14:54,094 and can only be accessed..." Get this. 275 00:14:54,127 --> 00:14:57,197 "...using the secret hand signal." 276 00:14:57,230 --> 00:14:59,466 - What kind of secret hand signals? 277 00:15:01,001 --> 00:15:02,135 - According to this, the head of this new group 278 00:15:02,169 --> 00:15:05,272 is housewife Rosemary Thomson. 279 00:15:05,305 --> 00:15:07,707 - Who also happens to be head of the Illinois chapter 280 00:15:07,740 --> 00:15:11,211 of STOP ERA and on the board of the Eagle Forum. 281 00:15:11,244 --> 00:15:12,879 - They're trying to kill this national convention 282 00:15:12,912 --> 00:15:16,616 just like they've been trying to kill ERA. I'm worried-- 283 00:15:16,649 --> 00:15:19,452 - Don't be. We have 1,400 delegate spots. 284 00:15:19,486 --> 00:15:22,455 What's three ultra conservatives getting elected from Georgia? 285 00:15:22,489 --> 00:15:24,657 - At what number should we start worrying? 286 00:15:24,691 --> 00:15:27,327 - If they get 20%, they'll have real power. 287 00:15:29,362 --> 00:15:31,098 - So every time the libbers would try to read 288 00:15:31,131 --> 00:15:32,765 the ERA resolution... 289 00:15:32,799 --> 00:15:34,634 - You can hear it on the recording. 290 00:15:34,667 --> 00:15:36,403 - Well, I'll send copies to Senator Helms 291 00:15:36,436 --> 00:15:39,239 to include their propaganda in the Congressional Record. 292 00:15:41,608 --> 00:15:43,843 Where's the recording of the Texas meeting? 293 00:15:43,876 --> 00:15:45,945 - Oh, I... - I'll need every single one 294 00:15:45,979 --> 00:15:47,514 of those recordings, Pamela. 295 00:15:47,547 --> 00:15:50,317 I need to know what's going on. 296 00:15:50,350 --> 00:15:52,252 - They swept the Missouri meeting. 297 00:15:52,285 --> 00:15:56,256 The entire delegation was taken over by the Antis. 298 00:15:56,289 --> 00:15:58,458 They did well in Hawaii, too. 299 00:15:58,491 --> 00:16:00,593 - How is that even possible? 300 00:16:00,627 --> 00:16:03,130 - Well, there's an LDS cultural center out there. 301 00:16:03,163 --> 00:16:05,765 All these Mormons came over on boats. 302 00:16:05,798 --> 00:16:07,334 Why didn't Mildred warn us in advance? 303 00:16:07,367 --> 00:16:09,269 Isn't that her job? 304 00:16:09,302 --> 00:16:12,005 - Was. She quit when you threw your lunch at her. 305 00:16:12,039 --> 00:16:16,676 - I didn't throw it at her. It was just a little cole slaw. 306 00:16:16,709 --> 00:16:19,846 - The slaw that broke the camel's back. 307 00:16:30,390 --> 00:16:31,891 This is not a good time. 308 00:16:31,924 --> 00:16:34,527 - I could have predicted what happened in Missouri. 309 00:16:34,561 --> 00:16:36,196 And let me tell you something. 310 00:16:36,229 --> 00:16:39,032 Whoever is organizing this Citizen's Review Committee 311 00:16:39,066 --> 00:16:41,834 is even more cunning than Phyllis Schlafly. 312 00:16:41,868 --> 00:16:43,470 - It is Phyllis Schlafly. 313 00:16:43,503 --> 00:16:46,539 The Citizen's Review Committee is the Eagle Forum, 314 00:16:46,573 --> 00:16:49,242 is STOP ERA. It's all the same people. 315 00:16:49,276 --> 00:16:53,546 - Oh. Well, if I was fooled, everyone's fooled. 316 00:16:53,580 --> 00:16:55,982 But you want to get advice from Jean Stapleton. 317 00:16:56,015 --> 00:16:58,085 Oh, ain't that smart? 318 00:16:58,118 --> 00:16:59,819 - She's Edith Bunker. 319 00:16:59,852 --> 00:17:02,155 She's on the commission because she's a celebrity. 320 00:17:02,189 --> 00:17:03,556 - Well, I'm a celebrity, 321 00:17:03,590 --> 00:17:04,757 and my fans are not gonna show up-- 322 00:17:04,791 --> 00:17:07,194 I have a lot of fans-- unless I'm there. 323 00:17:07,227 --> 00:17:08,561 - Then get your ass to Albany 324 00:17:08,595 --> 00:17:10,730 and run to represent New York state. 325 00:17:10,763 --> 00:17:13,433 - Well...maybe I will! 326 00:17:13,466 --> 00:17:15,068 Gosh. 327 00:17:18,471 --> 00:17:22,442 - We have a big problem in Albany. 328 00:17:22,475 --> 00:17:23,776 - Is Jesse Helms going to be at the state dinner? 329 00:17:23,810 --> 00:17:25,512 - Mm. 330 00:17:25,545 --> 00:17:27,780 - Make sure you corner him and find out where Phyllis 331 00:17:27,814 --> 00:17:29,949 is getting her funding and reassure-- 332 00:17:29,982 --> 00:17:32,519 - The First Lady that we've got things under control 333 00:17:32,552 --> 00:17:35,555 while finding private time for the president 334 00:17:35,588 --> 00:17:38,725 with Anwar Sadat. Yes, I know. 335 00:17:38,758 --> 00:17:40,093 - Doesn't she clean up well? - Oh. 336 00:17:40,127 --> 00:17:42,095 - You're so beautiful. 337 00:17:42,129 --> 00:17:43,730 - I feel like a chandelier. 338 00:17:43,763 --> 00:17:45,232 - What's our plan? 339 00:17:45,265 --> 00:17:47,100 - Chinese, followed by a drag show in Dupont Circle. 340 00:17:47,134 --> 00:17:49,369 - Mm! My perfect man. 341 00:17:49,402 --> 00:17:51,271 - Words I never thought I'd hear you say. 342 00:17:51,304 --> 00:17:53,873 - Be good. 343 00:18:03,983 --> 00:18:07,287 You were supposed to monitor any activity on the ground! 344 00:18:07,320 --> 00:18:09,156 Who are you? 345 00:18:09,189 --> 00:18:10,823 - I put a report on your desk. Did you even look at it? 346 00:18:10,857 --> 00:18:12,925 - What happened? 347 00:18:12,959 --> 00:18:15,061 - Citizen's Review Committee is busing people to Albany-- 348 00:18:15,094 --> 00:18:18,131 Mormons, thousands of 'em. You're fired. 349 00:18:18,165 --> 00:18:19,732 - She didn't mean that. 350 00:18:19,766 --> 00:18:21,768 We're just frustrated with the situation. I-- 351 00:18:21,801 --> 00:18:24,237 - Yes, everyone's frustrated. One person is fired. Go. 352 00:18:27,340 --> 00:18:29,776 Morale is already low. 353 00:18:29,809 --> 00:18:32,044 - We are in a crisis. 354 00:18:38,017 --> 00:18:40,019 Nothing gets our side mobilized more than Phyllis Schlafly. 355 00:18:40,052 --> 00:18:42,322 She's in hiding. I need to draw her out. 356 00:18:42,355 --> 00:18:44,991 Judy, could you get me a flight to Normal, Illinois? 357 00:18:50,062 --> 00:18:52,031 - I don't think you should go. 358 00:18:52,064 --> 00:18:53,666 - You don't trust I know what I'm doing? 359 00:18:53,700 --> 00:18:56,503 - You've been having outbursts. - I'm under a lot of stress. 360 00:18:56,536 --> 00:18:58,104 - If you have an outburst with Phyllis 361 00:18:58,137 --> 00:19:01,474 in front of thousands of people, that's how she got to Betty. 362 00:19:01,508 --> 00:19:04,344 - Oh, so you think I'm Betty now. 363 00:19:04,377 --> 00:19:06,446 If you're so concerned, come with me. 364 00:19:06,479 --> 00:19:08,681 - I'm scheduled to speak at the California meeting. 365 00:19:08,715 --> 00:19:11,284 - You know, that's the difference between you and me. 366 00:19:11,318 --> 00:19:13,553 You wanna preach to the choir. 367 00:19:29,402 --> 00:19:31,871 - Of course I'm gonna run in my home state. 368 00:19:31,904 --> 00:19:33,973 Aren't these meetings open to all women? 369 00:19:34,006 --> 00:19:36,243 - He's got Tommy's eyes. - And Buck's hairline. 370 00:19:37,277 --> 00:19:38,745 - Ah. Anytime. 371 00:19:38,778 --> 00:19:40,813 Well... 372 00:19:40,847 --> 00:19:43,983 the press is crowing about a showdown. 373 00:19:44,016 --> 00:19:47,987 And where Bella Abzug is, Gloria Steinem's not far behind. 374 00:19:48,020 --> 00:19:48,921 - So does this mean you can come out and run 375 00:19:48,955 --> 00:19:50,523 in the elections with us? 376 00:19:50,557 --> 00:19:52,091 - Well, the cat's out of the bag. 377 00:19:52,124 --> 00:19:54,261 They know that the, uh, Citizen's Review Committee 378 00:19:54,294 --> 00:19:58,164 is my work, and... can't let my ladies down. 379 00:19:58,197 --> 00:20:00,333 - Oh. I'm so relieved. 380 00:20:00,367 --> 00:20:01,901 I've never run for anything in my life. 381 00:20:01,934 --> 00:20:03,603 - You know, I think I should, uh, 382 00:20:03,636 --> 00:20:06,439 make a speech from the floor, 383 00:20:06,473 --> 00:20:09,108 something to make Bella really squirm. 384 00:20:09,141 --> 00:20:10,543 It's gonna be fun. 385 00:20:10,577 --> 00:20:12,178 - I'm expecting a package. 386 00:20:12,211 --> 00:20:13,513 Did you see anything in the mail? 387 00:20:13,546 --> 00:20:15,081 - Well, who's sending you a package, Phyl? 388 00:20:15,114 --> 00:20:16,249 - A boy? 389 00:20:16,283 --> 00:20:19,051 - Photographer's here. 390 00:20:19,085 --> 00:20:21,020 - Oh. 391 00:20:21,053 --> 00:20:23,356 - Well, this is a bit early, even for you. 392 00:20:23,390 --> 00:20:25,692 - Well... 393 00:20:25,725 --> 00:20:29,429 It's the only time all of the children are home. 394 00:20:29,462 --> 00:20:31,464 It's warm in here. 395 00:20:31,498 --> 00:20:33,600 I'd take the blanket off him. 396 00:20:35,768 --> 00:20:37,236 - Hmm-hmm-hmm! 397 00:20:37,270 --> 00:20:38,638 - Smile! 398 00:20:43,843 --> 00:20:47,380 - Bruce, tuck in your shirt. - Oh. Sorry. 399 00:20:47,414 --> 00:20:49,148 - Get in, Aunt Eleanor. 400 00:20:49,181 --> 00:20:52,585 - Oh, honey, I don't have my Christmas sweater on me. 401 00:20:52,619 --> 00:20:54,787 - You can have mine. I don't even wanna be in this photo. 402 00:20:54,821 --> 00:20:56,723 - Let's get a few more on the count of three. 403 00:20:56,756 --> 00:21:00,092 One...two...three! 404 00:21:00,126 --> 00:21:02,061 - John, you're slouching. 405 00:21:02,094 --> 00:21:03,830 Liza... 406 00:21:03,863 --> 00:21:05,598 Phyl. 407 00:21:07,367 --> 00:21:09,902 - Who's Liza? - It's a nickname. 408 00:21:11,037 --> 00:21:12,305 - "Phyl" is already a nickname. Why-- 409 00:21:12,339 --> 00:21:13,940 - It's not important. 410 00:21:13,973 --> 00:21:15,508 - It's important enough for you to keep it from me. 411 00:21:15,542 --> 00:21:17,310 - 'Cause I knew you'd react like this. Doesn't matter. 412 00:21:17,344 --> 00:21:18,911 - No, it matters to me. 413 00:21:18,945 --> 00:21:20,913 I happen to like your given name. 414 00:21:22,482 --> 00:21:24,016 - Do you know how hard it is 415 00:21:24,050 --> 00:21:25,752 to be Phyllis Schlafly, Jr. on campus? 416 00:21:25,785 --> 00:21:27,587 - Oh, there are a lot of, uh, students 417 00:21:27,620 --> 00:21:29,088 with famous parents at Princeton. 418 00:21:29,121 --> 00:21:30,590 - Not famous for being public enemy number one 419 00:21:30,623 --> 00:21:31,791 of women's liberation. 420 00:21:31,824 --> 00:21:33,826 I've changed my name. - To what? 421 00:21:33,860 --> 00:21:35,495 - JOHN, BRUCE, ROGER: Liza. 422 00:21:35,528 --> 00:21:37,464 - That's not a very pretty name. 423 00:21:39,399 --> 00:21:41,133 - I...I think we're taking a break. 424 00:21:41,167 --> 00:21:43,436 - Oh, thank you. - Thank you. 425 00:21:44,971 --> 00:21:46,205 - You knew? 426 00:21:46,238 --> 00:21:49,008 - It wasn't my news to share. 427 00:21:53,012 --> 00:21:56,182 - I'm sorry. I didn't realize my name was such a burden. 428 00:21:56,215 --> 00:21:58,818 - I feel like Hester Prynne whenever I introduce myself. 429 00:21:58,851 --> 00:22:02,154 People laugh at me. You're famous. Good for you, 430 00:22:02,188 --> 00:22:03,723 but it's embarrassing for me. - That's enough, Phyl. 431 00:22:03,756 --> 00:22:05,291 - Busloads of my friends are headed 432 00:22:05,324 --> 00:22:07,494 to the state meeting tomorrow. They're feminists. 433 00:22:07,527 --> 00:22:09,962 They're interested in hearing what Bella Abzug has to say. 434 00:22:09,996 --> 00:22:11,864 You know, they all wanna be Gloria Steinem, not-- 435 00:22:11,898 --> 00:22:13,065 - I said that's enough, Phyl. 436 00:22:13,099 --> 00:22:16,235 Now apologize to your mother right now. 437 00:22:16,268 --> 00:22:20,407 - You know, my mother worked at the library 438 00:22:20,440 --> 00:22:24,511 for 25 years, 5 days a week, and on Sunday afternoons. 439 00:22:24,544 --> 00:22:27,146 And on Saturdays, she worked at my high school 440 00:22:27,179 --> 00:22:30,016 so that I could have a proper Catholic school education. 441 00:22:30,049 --> 00:22:34,020 Now, uh, my classmates laughed and joked about my mother 442 00:22:34,053 --> 00:22:38,190 working at the school, but I held my head high, 443 00:22:38,224 --> 00:22:41,394 knowing that, uh, she was doing what was necessary 444 00:22:41,428 --> 00:22:45,998 so that my life could be better, and I never, ever thought, 445 00:22:46,032 --> 00:22:50,770 let alone said, that I was ashamed or embarrassed of her. 446 00:23:00,947 --> 00:23:02,749 - I've decided to go to Berkeley. 447 00:23:53,833 --> 00:23:55,234 - Did you talk to her this morning? 448 00:23:55,267 --> 00:23:57,236 - How many times are you gonna ask me? 449 00:23:57,269 --> 00:23:58,571 - I just hope she's okay. 450 00:23:58,605 --> 00:23:59,672 - Well, if she wasn't planning on coming, 451 00:23:59,706 --> 00:24:00,673 she should've given me the bullhorn. 452 00:24:00,707 --> 00:24:02,575 - She's coming. 453 00:24:14,153 --> 00:24:16,455 - Yeah, Bella! - Bella! 454 00:24:18,658 --> 00:24:20,092 - How are you? 455 00:24:23,029 --> 00:24:25,164 - Go home, Bella! - Go back to New York! 456 00:24:25,197 --> 00:24:26,966 - We don't want you here! 457 00:24:26,999 --> 00:24:29,135 - Has Schlafly arrived? 458 00:24:29,168 --> 00:24:30,970 - We'll know when she gets here. All the trees will wilt. 459 00:24:32,539 --> 00:24:35,274 - Boo! Boo! - Go home! Go back to New York! 460 00:24:37,844 --> 00:24:40,046 - Go back to New York, Bella! Go home! 461 00:24:44,851 --> 00:24:48,555 - Phyllis? I was just gonna pick up Anne from school. 462 00:24:51,190 --> 00:24:54,393 Are you feeling all right? 463 00:24:54,426 --> 00:24:55,995 Are you unwell? 464 00:25:05,605 --> 00:25:09,175 Dr. Albert says that erratic sleeping, 465 00:25:09,208 --> 00:25:12,244 sweating is often-- - It's not that. 466 00:25:12,278 --> 00:25:14,013 I'm fine. 467 00:25:14,046 --> 00:25:16,315 - I do know for me that I didn't know what was happening. 468 00:25:16,348 --> 00:25:18,284 - I did not get into this fight to lose. 469 00:25:20,887 --> 00:25:26,092 Not to that hideous battle-axe. I can't... 470 00:25:26,125 --> 00:25:28,995 I just... 471 00:25:29,028 --> 00:25:32,865 Why does she get to be inside the White House? 472 00:25:34,867 --> 00:25:38,104 - You don't want to go to that women's convention anyway. 473 00:25:38,137 --> 00:25:41,040 Going to Houston a week before Thanksgiving? 474 00:25:41,073 --> 00:25:45,544 We always have so much to do. 475 00:25:45,578 --> 00:25:49,215 - Oh, were you planning to spend Thanksgiving with us? 476 00:25:50,950 --> 00:25:53,720 - Well...what do you mean? 477 00:25:53,753 --> 00:25:55,287 - Well, I know it's been our tradition, 478 00:25:55,321 --> 00:25:57,624 but Fred and I have been so selfish with your time, 479 00:25:57,657 --> 00:26:00,126 and I know Robert's kids and Daniel's kids 480 00:26:00,159 --> 00:26:03,696 love their Aunt Eleanor as much as mine do. 481 00:26:03,730 --> 00:26:07,033 - Oh. I'll-- I'll check with them. 482 00:26:07,066 --> 00:26:10,903 - Good. It's only fair. 483 00:26:40,700 --> 00:26:43,469 - You can wait in here. 484 00:26:48,875 --> 00:26:50,342 - Shh! 485 00:26:52,779 --> 00:26:55,181 - Hello. I'm Bella. 486 00:26:55,214 --> 00:26:57,316 - We know who you are. 487 00:26:57,349 --> 00:26:59,986 - Let's see your sign. 488 00:27:06,192 --> 00:27:07,794 So you're not going for wit. 489 00:27:07,827 --> 00:27:10,663 Okay. But you spelled my name right. That's good. 490 00:27:10,697 --> 00:27:12,264 You wouldn't believe how many people 491 00:27:12,298 --> 00:27:14,801 spell "Abzug" incorrectly. It's phonetic. 492 00:27:17,236 --> 00:27:19,438 Where's your queen? 493 00:27:19,471 --> 00:27:21,640 - She's been held up in traffic. 494 00:27:21,674 --> 00:27:24,010 - In Normal, Illinois? 495 00:27:28,480 --> 00:27:30,216 She's not coming, is she? 496 00:27:33,052 --> 00:27:34,553 Oh. 497 00:27:34,586 --> 00:27:36,322 You don't know it yet. 498 00:27:39,191 --> 00:27:42,194 Let me tell you the truth about Phyllis Schlafly. 499 00:27:42,228 --> 00:27:45,698 She's a liar, a fearmonger, and a con artist, 500 00:27:45,732 --> 00:27:48,467 but worst of all, she's a goddamn feminist. 501 00:27:48,500 --> 00:27:50,970 She might be one of the most liberated women in America. 502 00:27:51,003 --> 00:27:53,639 - Excuse me, but you don't know anything about Phyllis. 503 00:27:53,672 --> 00:27:55,875 Before she took up our cause, 504 00:27:55,908 --> 00:27:59,411 we were the punchline of jokes on late night talk shows, 505 00:27:59,445 --> 00:28:01,413 made to feel guilty for being proud homemakers, 506 00:28:01,447 --> 00:28:03,182 wanting to stay home with our children 507 00:28:03,215 --> 00:28:05,885 instead of going to work in an office. 508 00:28:05,918 --> 00:28:08,520 - We don't want to be working girls. 509 00:28:08,554 --> 00:28:10,923 - She's been our savior, our Joan of Arc. 510 00:28:10,957 --> 00:28:13,459 - Everything we know, we learned from her. 511 00:28:15,094 --> 00:28:16,896 - What have you learned from her? 512 00:28:16,929 --> 00:28:19,198 - So many things she's taught us. 513 00:28:19,231 --> 00:28:22,668 - Has she taught you how to lobby legislators? 514 00:28:22,701 --> 00:28:24,670 - Of course. 515 00:28:24,703 --> 00:28:26,839 - Has she taught you how to draft a press release? A speech? 516 00:28:26,873 --> 00:28:29,441 - Yes. - How to answer 517 00:28:29,475 --> 00:28:31,610 reporters' questions, get the television interview? 518 00:28:31,643 --> 00:28:33,079 - Yes. 519 00:28:33,112 --> 00:28:34,246 - How to create a budget and balance it? 520 00:28:34,280 --> 00:28:35,614 - Yes. 521 00:28:35,647 --> 00:28:37,416 - Congratulations. You're working girls. 522 00:28:40,719 --> 00:28:42,121 - Before we begin the voting, 523 00:28:42,154 --> 00:28:45,257 it is my distinct honor to present our keynote speaker, 524 00:28:45,291 --> 00:28:48,227 former U.S. Representative... 525 00:28:48,260 --> 00:28:51,964 - Be sure to give Phyllis my best regards. 526 00:28:51,998 --> 00:28:53,365 - ...Bella Abzug! 527 00:29:05,644 --> 00:29:07,446 - Thank you. Thank you. 528 00:29:11,483 --> 00:29:13,619 Ah. 529 00:29:13,652 --> 00:29:16,655 Wow, it's great to be here. 530 00:29:16,688 --> 00:29:19,225 When our country's forefathers wrote the Constitution, 531 00:29:19,258 --> 00:29:20,759 they overlooked our foremothers... 532 00:29:22,494 --> 00:29:24,096 ...which is why I've come here today 533 00:29:24,130 --> 00:29:26,298 to the great state of Illinois. 534 00:29:38,444 --> 00:29:40,079 - Thank you. Thank you. 535 00:29:44,951 --> 00:29:47,686 ...it's because of all of your hard work. 536 00:29:50,289 --> 00:29:54,426 Good, good, good. 537 00:29:54,460 --> 00:29:57,196 - I heard you got four standing ovations. 538 00:29:57,229 --> 00:29:59,665 - Actually, five-- six, if you count this one. 539 00:30:02,634 --> 00:30:04,971 She never even showed when she heard I was coming. 540 00:30:08,207 --> 00:30:10,542 How was California? 541 00:30:10,576 --> 00:30:12,678 - We finally passed the resolution 542 00:30:12,711 --> 00:30:14,613 to decriminalize prostitution. 543 00:30:14,646 --> 00:30:16,815 Flo and I are happy about that. 544 00:30:16,849 --> 00:30:18,817 - Ah, that's sweet, you think that's ever gonna make it 545 00:30:18,851 --> 00:30:20,386 on the agenda. 546 00:30:20,419 --> 00:30:23,689 But good news. 26 states have voted to approve 547 00:30:23,722 --> 00:30:25,124 a gay rights resolution. 548 00:30:25,157 --> 00:30:26,859 It's no longer the stepchild of the movement. 549 00:30:26,893 --> 00:30:29,061 - I can't wait to hear the anti-change women 550 00:30:29,095 --> 00:30:30,897 get up and preach about the dangers of perverts 551 00:30:30,930 --> 00:30:32,731 teaching in our schools right before the vote. 552 00:30:32,764 --> 00:30:34,066 - That's politics. 553 00:30:34,100 --> 00:30:37,669 They're winning seats fair and square. 554 00:30:37,703 --> 00:30:39,872 - They're busing Mormons to New York from out of state. 555 00:30:39,906 --> 00:30:41,207 They're rigging the system, 556 00:30:41,240 --> 00:30:43,142 and you're doing nothing to stop them. 557 00:30:43,175 --> 00:30:45,744 - What would you have me do? - Kick them out. 558 00:30:45,777 --> 00:30:49,015 - They'll rake us over the coals for being partisan. 559 00:30:49,048 --> 00:30:50,516 We'll become the assholes. 560 00:30:50,549 --> 00:30:52,919 - They're gonna bring bloody fetus banners 561 00:30:52,952 --> 00:30:54,420 and tell us what we can and cannot do with our bodies, 562 00:30:54,453 --> 00:30:56,155 and we' the assholes. 563 00:30:56,188 --> 00:30:59,091 - We have to compromise. - Like we did with McGovern? 564 00:31:01,293 --> 00:31:02,694 We finally have a place that's ours, 565 00:31:02,728 --> 00:31:04,396 and they're going to ruin it. 566 00:31:04,430 --> 00:31:06,332 - I've spent almost 10 years in this town. 567 00:31:06,365 --> 00:31:08,067 I know what I can get done and what I can't-- 568 00:31:08,100 --> 00:31:09,868 something you've never had to learn. 569 00:31:09,902 --> 00:31:11,237 - I've learned that I'm not willing to sit 570 00:31:11,270 --> 00:31:12,939 on another convention floor getting called 571 00:31:12,972 --> 00:31:14,173 a murderer of babies. 572 00:31:14,206 --> 00:31:15,707 I'm not willing to let women speak 573 00:31:15,741 --> 00:31:18,544 who are getting funded by the Birchers. 574 00:31:18,577 --> 00:31:22,548 I'm sick of shrinking our dreams to appeal to the middle. 575 00:31:22,581 --> 00:31:24,450 This was supposed to be our Eden, 576 00:31:24,483 --> 00:31:26,418 and you've let the snakes in. 577 00:31:32,424 --> 00:31:35,094 You were a bigger radical than me when we met. 578 00:31:35,127 --> 00:31:39,631 - And you were a dilettante who wanted to play politics. 579 00:33:38,016 --> 00:33:41,087 - Phyllis? 580 00:33:41,120 --> 00:33:43,322 Phyllis? Is anybody here? 581 00:33:43,355 --> 00:33:45,524 Oh, there you are. 582 00:33:48,894 --> 00:33:52,431 - We must come together as sisters, 583 00:33:52,464 --> 00:33:57,669 white, black, brown, heterosexual, and lesbian. 584 00:33:57,703 --> 00:34:00,339 Lesbian rights are human r-- 585 00:34:00,372 --> 00:34:02,441 - What are you doing? I'm in the middle of something important. 586 00:34:02,474 --> 00:34:04,376 - Why didn't you show up yesterday? 587 00:34:04,410 --> 00:34:06,878 - It was a strategic decision. 588 00:34:06,912 --> 00:34:10,716 For your information, I have had an inspired idea. 589 00:34:10,749 --> 00:34:12,551 - I know you don't like to lose. 590 00:34:12,584 --> 00:34:14,353 - Oh, I'm not losing. I'm winning. 591 00:34:14,386 --> 00:34:17,523 - We got trounced. You left us to be humiliated 592 00:34:17,556 --> 00:34:21,127 in front of Bella Abzug and 2,000 libbers. 593 00:34:21,160 --> 00:34:25,364 - Lesbian rights are human rights. 594 00:34:25,397 --> 00:34:27,533 - Glory be to the Father and to the Son 595 00:34:27,566 --> 00:34:29,568 and to the Holy Ghost... 596 00:34:29,601 --> 00:34:34,072 - I'm putting these libber quotes all together on one tape, 597 00:34:34,106 --> 00:34:38,444 including, uh, some sermons that Lottie Beth sent me. 598 00:34:38,477 --> 00:34:41,480 - Don't people realize that most women are working... 599 00:34:41,513 --> 00:34:44,049 to destroy the home, 600 00:34:44,082 --> 00:34:45,651 family, and religion. 601 00:34:45,684 --> 00:34:48,587 - But that's not exactly what she said in her speech. 602 00:34:48,620 --> 00:34:49,955 - Yes, but she said those words. 603 00:34:49,988 --> 00:34:52,458 - Yes, but--but in a-- in a different way. 604 00:34:52,491 --> 00:34:53,959 You're just taking them out of context. 605 00:34:53,992 --> 00:34:55,427 - She said them. 606 00:34:57,196 --> 00:35:01,267 Now the kids--they call these, uh, music compilations. 607 00:35:01,300 --> 00:35:03,068 They're like movie soundtracks, 608 00:35:03,101 --> 00:35:04,636 and they make them for their sweethearts, 609 00:35:04,670 --> 00:35:06,172 but you can also make them for people 610 00:35:06,205 --> 00:35:07,906 who are not your sweethearts. 611 00:35:07,939 --> 00:35:09,941 If we're gonna mobilize more people, 612 00:35:09,975 --> 00:35:13,912 we need them to know how truly horrible those libbers are. 613 00:35:13,945 --> 00:35:18,517 - Yeah, in their own words. That's devious. 614 00:35:26,124 --> 00:35:28,059 - Are you angry with me? 615 00:35:31,797 --> 00:35:34,132 - I'll tell the girls you had food poisoning. 616 00:35:40,572 --> 00:35:42,874 - Lesbian rights affect all of us. 617 00:35:42,908 --> 00:35:44,142 - "You shall not lie with a male 618 00:35:44,176 --> 00:35:46,945 as with a woman. It's an abomination." 619 00:35:46,978 --> 00:35:49,481 - We fight for reproductive freedom! 620 00:35:49,515 --> 00:35:53,051 - "Before I formed you in the womb, I knew you." 621 00:35:53,084 --> 00:35:55,554 - Women at home work harder than anyone, 622 00:35:55,587 --> 00:35:59,458 and they work 99.6 hours a week without pay. 623 00:35:59,491 --> 00:36:02,661 A man would have to pay a housekeeper $14,000 a year, 624 00:36:02,694 --> 00:36:05,331 not including part-time prostitution. 625 00:36:05,364 --> 00:36:09,235 - So that's the Horribles tape. - I miss Gloria. 626 00:36:09,268 --> 00:36:10,736 - We're the Horribles? 627 00:36:10,769 --> 00:36:12,838 - These tapes are everywhere. 628 00:36:12,871 --> 00:36:15,474 They're spreading like wildfire across the churches. 629 00:36:15,507 --> 00:36:18,076 - This must be how the swept Oklahoma, Alabama, Mississippi 630 00:36:18,109 --> 00:36:20,178 last weekend--this tape. 631 00:36:20,212 --> 00:36:21,980 - It's not just that they've mobilized more people. 632 00:36:22,013 --> 00:36:25,317 They've emboldened the Klan to crawl out from under a rock. 633 00:36:25,351 --> 00:36:26,685 - The Klan is showing up? 634 00:36:26,718 --> 00:36:28,086 - Mississippi will be represented 635 00:36:28,119 --> 00:36:30,489 by an all-white delegation in Houston. 636 00:36:30,522 --> 00:36:32,424 That includes the wife of the Grand Dragon 637 00:36:32,458 --> 00:36:35,694 of the Mississippi Klan. - They're not even hiding. 638 00:36:35,727 --> 00:36:38,764 - Can you ask the president for more money for security? 639 00:36:38,797 --> 00:36:41,267 - Delicately, I will. 640 00:36:41,300 --> 00:36:45,003 - Use this to bury Phyllis Schlafly. 641 00:36:45,036 --> 00:36:51,209 - I've waited years for proof that she's in bed with the Klan. 642 00:36:53,379 --> 00:36:56,248 - Uh... 643 00:36:56,282 --> 00:37:00,686 Uh, given all that's happening, I-I think, um... 644 00:37:00,719 --> 00:37:03,689 I think it's...unwise 645 00:37:03,722 --> 00:37:06,725 to keep a gay rights resolution on the agenda. 646 00:37:08,760 --> 00:37:12,464 - You can't do that. It was approved in 30 states. 647 00:37:12,498 --> 00:37:15,166 - Believe me, this is the hardest part of my job. 648 00:37:23,609 --> 00:37:25,311 - I got you this job. 649 00:37:25,344 --> 00:37:26,912 - Carter appointed me. 650 00:37:26,945 --> 00:37:28,380 - Because I begged him. 651 00:37:28,414 --> 00:37:31,317 Mrs. Carter thought you were pushy and loud. 652 00:37:31,350 --> 00:37:32,784 - You know that's code for Jewish... 653 00:37:32,818 --> 00:37:34,386 - And I fought for you. - ...and Italian. 654 00:37:34,420 --> 00:37:35,821 - I thought you would fight for me. 655 00:37:35,854 --> 00:37:37,289 - You want me to release hundreds of lavender balloons 656 00:37:37,323 --> 00:37:40,659 on the convention floor that say, "We are everywhere"? 657 00:37:40,692 --> 00:37:41,960 You're not even out of the closet! 658 00:37:41,993 --> 00:37:43,595 - Well, maybe if I could hold Jean's-- 659 00:37:50,602 --> 00:37:52,971 I can't even hold her hand while we walk down the street 660 00:37:53,004 --> 00:37:56,107 without getting the shit kicked out of me. 661 00:37:58,777 --> 00:38:02,381 You're fearless. That's why I got you this appointment. 662 00:38:05,451 --> 00:38:07,753 That's why I got into politics at all. 663 00:38:07,786 --> 00:38:10,689 Because you went down to Mississippi at 28 years old 664 00:38:10,722 --> 00:38:12,924 to defend Willie McGee. You risked your life-- 665 00:38:12,958 --> 00:38:14,526 - Sorry I let you down. 666 00:38:16,962 --> 00:38:20,432 I tried to stop the Antis, but they're coming to Houston, 667 00:38:20,466 --> 00:38:22,200 they're bringing the Klan, 668 00:38:22,233 --> 00:38:25,003 and my job is to keep our women safe. 669 00:38:25,036 --> 00:38:27,506 Your job is to make sure the president 670 00:38:27,539 --> 00:38:29,140 is standing on that stage. 671 00:38:30,542 --> 00:38:32,344 - The president isn't coming. 672 00:38:47,926 --> 00:38:49,828 - Picked up the things from your office. 673 00:38:49,861 --> 00:38:51,530 - Aw. What's this? 674 00:38:51,563 --> 00:38:53,565 - Uh, it's from the South Dakota meeting. 675 00:38:53,599 --> 00:38:55,701 Someone sent you a miniature Mount Rushmore statue, 676 00:38:55,734 --> 00:38:57,202 remade with the Suffragettes. 677 00:38:59,070 --> 00:39:01,039 Oh, Wisconsin? - Yes. 678 00:39:01,072 --> 00:39:03,875 You know what goes nicely with this cheese? 679 00:39:03,909 --> 00:39:05,343 From the Kentucky meeting. 680 00:39:05,377 --> 00:39:07,345 - Kentucky? - Mm-hmm. 681 00:39:07,379 --> 00:39:10,416 - This could be poisoned. - Well, I'll be your taster. 682 00:39:13,118 --> 00:39:14,720 - Did you run into Bella? 683 00:39:14,753 --> 00:39:17,989 - Uh...no. 684 00:39:18,023 --> 00:39:20,392 No, she was in a meeting. 685 00:39:20,426 --> 00:39:24,195 - I haven't gone this long without speaking to her and... 686 00:39:27,265 --> 00:39:28,400 What's this? 687 00:39:28,434 --> 00:39:30,669 - Uh... 688 00:39:30,702 --> 00:39:33,071 - Huh. 689 00:39:41,413 --> 00:39:43,882 They thought I would wear this? 690 00:39:48,086 --> 00:39:52,691 - How could you let a Klansman guard our hospitality suite? 691 00:39:52,724 --> 00:39:55,627 - Well, we didn't know he was a Klansman. 692 00:39:55,661 --> 00:39:58,196 They don't walk around in hoods. Talk to Lotte. 693 00:39:58,229 --> 00:39:59,965 - Well, you should've vetted him. 694 00:39:59,998 --> 00:40:02,601 - You're right, and I-I got a bad feeling 695 00:40:02,634 --> 00:40:03,802 from a lot of the men driving buses 696 00:40:03,835 --> 00:40:05,270 into Mississippi and Alabama. 697 00:40:05,303 --> 00:40:07,973 I should have said something. I'm so stupid. 698 00:40:08,006 --> 00:40:09,541 It's all right. It's all right. 699 00:40:09,575 --> 00:40:12,377 I've--I've fixed it. I've, uh, denied any association. 700 00:40:12,410 --> 00:40:14,245 - Well, I think we need to go further. 701 00:40:14,279 --> 00:40:16,948 - The--The Grand Dragon of the Klan in Mississippi 702 00:40:16,982 --> 00:40:19,685 has already gone on record saying he collaborated with us. 703 00:40:21,019 --> 00:40:23,154 The only way to make it absolutely clear 704 00:40:23,188 --> 00:40:25,657 that we don't tolerate hate groups is to put out 705 00:40:25,691 --> 00:40:28,560 a press release denouncing them once and for all. 706 00:40:28,594 --> 00:40:31,096 - Now that is a very smart idea. 707 00:40:31,129 --> 00:40:34,833 - With Lotte. - All right. 708 00:40:34,866 --> 00:40:38,770 Now look, this, uh, certainly is a setback, 709 00:40:38,804 --> 00:40:40,906 but, uh, given what we're up against, 710 00:40:40,939 --> 00:40:43,174 I think it is remarkable how well we've done, 711 00:40:43,208 --> 00:40:45,243 and, uh, Jacquie Davison called me, 712 00:40:45,276 --> 00:40:49,615 and she's been elected, and Ann Patterson is--is going, 713 00:40:49,648 --> 00:40:51,082 but I think we should count ourselves lucky 714 00:40:51,116 --> 00:40:53,919 that we don't have to go to this crooked extravaganza 715 00:40:53,952 --> 00:40:56,087 right before Thanksgiving. 716 00:40:56,121 --> 00:41:00,358 - Well...uh...I have to go. 717 00:41:00,391 --> 00:41:02,327 - What? 718 00:41:02,360 --> 00:41:04,462 - I won. 719 00:41:04,496 --> 00:41:06,632 - Oh. - I didn't know you won. 720 00:41:06,665 --> 00:41:10,335 - Well, it took them a while to count the ballots. 721 00:41:10,368 --> 00:41:12,671 I just got the call a few days ago. 722 00:41:12,704 --> 00:41:15,340 - They didn't call me till this morning. 723 00:41:15,373 --> 00:41:17,976 - Me, too. - We all won. 724 00:41:18,009 --> 00:41:20,211 I can't believe it. - We all won? 725 00:41:26,752 --> 00:41:30,355 - Oh. Um...it was too bad you got food poisoning 726 00:41:30,388 --> 00:41:32,090 and couldn't run, too. 727 00:41:35,661 --> 00:41:40,365 - Oh, yes. Yes. It's, uh... Ooh. 728 00:41:40,398 --> 00:41:43,201 Well, anyway, I'm... I'm too busy to go. 729 00:41:43,234 --> 00:41:45,837 - I-I think we should go. 730 00:41:45,871 --> 00:41:48,006 They need to see us. 731 00:41:48,039 --> 00:41:50,876 They need to see good people who are against the ERA, 732 00:41:50,909 --> 00:41:53,044 that our cause is just, 733 00:41:53,078 --> 00:41:55,180 and it has nothing to do with hate or prejudice. 734 00:41:55,213 --> 00:41:56,982 - That's right. 735 00:41:57,015 --> 00:41:59,751 Plus the government is paying us. 736 00:41:59,785 --> 00:42:01,787 It's kind of like a job. 737 00:42:10,596 --> 00:42:12,397 - Delegate-at-large? 738 00:42:12,430 --> 00:42:15,166 - Oh, it's a very prestigious honor. 739 00:42:15,200 --> 00:42:17,335 - What the hell does it even mean? 740 00:42:17,368 --> 00:42:19,337 - Whatever we want it to. I made it up. 741 00:42:19,370 --> 00:42:22,040 - I'm busy. I'm writing articles 742 00:42:22,073 --> 00:42:24,009 for a new magazine called "Working Women." 743 00:42:24,042 --> 00:42:26,344 It's like "Ms." but not dull. 744 00:42:26,377 --> 00:42:28,113 - Come to Houston. You-- 745 00:42:28,146 --> 00:42:29,948 You don't get the credit you deserve 746 00:42:29,981 --> 00:42:31,583 'cause you're difficult. 747 00:42:31,617 --> 00:42:33,619 - And you're ruthless, and you don't listen. 748 00:42:33,652 --> 00:42:35,887 - To you. I don't like a know-it-all. 749 00:42:35,921 --> 00:42:38,056 - Well, I admit I do have very strong instincts. 750 00:42:38,089 --> 00:42:40,125 - And I'll be honest with you. 751 00:42:40,158 --> 00:42:42,260 My instincts tell me there's only one issue 752 00:42:42,293 --> 00:42:45,797 that you should make a priority at your convention-- 753 00:42:45,831 --> 00:42:48,266 equal pay for equal work. 754 00:42:48,299 --> 00:42:50,902 That's what Phyllis understands. 755 00:42:50,936 --> 00:42:53,204 She has one message, and she sticks to it. 756 00:42:53,238 --> 00:42:55,273 - Make it about everything, it winds up being about nothing. 757 00:42:55,306 --> 00:42:56,642 As my father used to say, 758 00:42:56,675 --> 00:42:58,777 you only pluck one chicken at a time. 759 00:42:58,810 --> 00:43:00,812 - Yeah, was your father a butcher? 760 00:43:00,846 --> 00:43:03,649 - Mm-hmm. - Oh. 761 00:43:03,682 --> 00:43:06,885 Oh, and don't let them make it about lesbianism. 762 00:43:06,918 --> 00:43:08,620 It's not our fight. 763 00:43:08,654 --> 00:43:10,121 - Gloria doesn't understand that. 764 00:43:10,155 --> 00:43:11,489 She has a vision of Houston 765 00:43:11,522 --> 00:43:14,292 as being some magical feminist Woodstock. 766 00:43:14,325 --> 00:43:16,061 - Well, sure, why not? 767 00:43:16,094 --> 00:43:18,329 She's not going to get blamed if it's a failure. 768 00:43:18,363 --> 00:43:19,497 It'll be you, and they won't say 769 00:43:19,530 --> 00:43:21,566 that Bella Abzug couldn't pull it off. 770 00:43:21,599 --> 00:43:22,968 They'll say that women just can't 771 00:43:23,001 --> 00:43:24,569 pull off this sort of thing. 772 00:43:24,602 --> 00:43:27,572 And it'll be another 150 years 773 00:43:27,605 --> 00:43:32,110 until they let women gather like this again. 774 00:43:32,143 --> 00:43:35,413 Do you wanna stay for dinner? I'm making soup from scratch. 775 00:43:35,446 --> 00:43:38,583 I can't remember the last time I had people over. 776 00:43:38,616 --> 00:43:40,652 - Uh, Marty's expecting me. 777 00:43:40,686 --> 00:43:42,320 - Mm. 778 00:43:46,324 --> 00:43:48,193 - Does it bother you that... 779 00:43:48,226 --> 00:43:50,996 no one calls you a radical anymore? 780 00:43:52,130 --> 00:43:53,999 - The movement is getting down to Middle America. 781 00:43:55,400 --> 00:43:57,969 We're mainstream. That's a good thing. 782 00:44:35,373 --> 00:44:37,542 - You never pick up your phone. 783 00:44:37,575 --> 00:44:39,745 - Why are you holding a flashlight? 784 00:44:39,778 --> 00:44:42,080 - It's not a flashlight. It's a torch. 785 00:44:42,113 --> 00:44:43,148 - Oh. 786 00:44:43,181 --> 00:44:46,084 - Don't you have any imagination? 787 00:44:50,688 --> 00:44:52,590 After months of sitting silently in our meetings, 788 00:44:52,623 --> 00:44:54,692 eating all our food, 789 00:44:54,726 --> 00:44:57,695 Sey Chassler finally had a good idea-- 790 00:44:57,729 --> 00:44:59,564 a relay from Seneca Falls to Houston 791 00:44:59,597 --> 00:45:01,900 in the weeks leading up to the convention, 792 00:45:01,933 --> 00:45:03,869 women athletes of all ages, and I thought, 793 00:45:03,902 --> 00:45:07,238 instead of a baton, why not a torch like Lady Liberty? 794 00:45:08,573 --> 00:45:10,508 - Women on the move. 795 00:45:10,541 --> 00:45:12,744 - That's good. That's good. Write that down. 796 00:45:12,778 --> 00:45:14,880 - I'm not writing that down. 797 00:45:21,953 --> 00:45:23,855 - Have you spoken to Midge? 798 00:45:25,423 --> 00:45:28,459 Yeah. I've spoken to Midge. 799 00:45:32,297 --> 00:45:36,167 - Midge remembers my defense of Willie McGee as heroic. 800 00:45:41,606 --> 00:45:45,576 I was eight months pregnant when I went down to Jackson. 801 00:45:45,610 --> 00:45:48,246 - With Egee? 802 00:45:48,279 --> 00:45:51,416 - It was the first Supreme Court petition I'd ever written. 803 00:45:51,449 --> 00:45:53,118 It was my first trip to the South. 804 00:45:53,151 --> 00:45:55,586 It was the first time I got a death threat. 805 00:45:55,620 --> 00:45:58,223 They said, "Willie McGee's white woman lawyer should be 806 00:45:58,256 --> 00:46:00,425 executed along with him in the electric chair." 807 00:46:03,028 --> 00:46:05,997 I slept, disguised, above a brothel... 808 00:46:07,799 --> 00:46:12,070 ...because vigilantes stalked the hotels. 809 00:46:12,103 --> 00:46:14,605 The whole time, I was scared shitless. 810 00:46:19,377 --> 00:46:20,979 I lost the baby. 811 00:46:23,114 --> 00:46:25,583 Stress, the doctor said. 812 00:46:25,616 --> 00:46:27,652 They got to me. 813 00:46:31,789 --> 00:46:35,526 I left Mississippi before the case was over. 814 00:46:38,663 --> 00:46:42,167 I had so much still to do. 815 00:46:42,200 --> 00:46:44,870 There is so much still to do. 816 00:46:48,306 --> 00:46:50,675 - Fear never moved mountains. 817 00:46:57,382 --> 00:46:58,850 - What's right is right. 818 00:47:01,987 --> 00:47:03,989 I have to do right by Midge. 819 00:47:06,424 --> 00:47:09,794 But if I put lesbian rights back on the agenda, 820 00:47:09,827 --> 00:47:14,265 it's true. We have to keep the Antis out. 821 00:47:16,701 --> 00:47:19,670 I'll do my best. 822 00:47:24,409 --> 00:47:26,878 What if we let them in? 823 00:47:26,912 --> 00:47:30,248 What if we let everyone in? 824 00:47:30,281 --> 00:47:32,150 Let the chips fall where they may. 825 00:47:32,183 --> 00:47:35,686 - What do you mean, everyone? Not Schlafly's people. 826 00:47:35,720 --> 00:47:37,255 - Everyone, everyone. 827 00:47:39,424 --> 00:47:41,759 What's really revolutionary about a group of people 828 00:47:41,792 --> 00:47:43,461 in a room agreeing with each other? 829 00:47:45,130 --> 00:47:48,866 - The whole thing could blow up in our faces. 830 00:47:56,874 --> 00:48:01,379 I invited Betty to be a delegate-at-large. 831 00:49:27,532 --> 00:49:29,534 - I put the leftovers in the freezer. 832 00:49:29,567 --> 00:49:31,436 Do you need anything else before I leave? 833 00:49:31,469 --> 00:49:33,338 - Oh, no, thank you, Willie. I'll--I'll see you tomorrow. 834 00:49:33,371 --> 00:49:35,373 - Okay. See you tomorrow. 835 00:49:52,990 --> 00:49:55,293 - Lottie Beth Hobbs. - It's Phyllis. 836 00:49:55,326 --> 00:49:57,162 - You're working late. 837 00:49:57,195 --> 00:50:01,699 - Hmm. I've been reading your book. You, uh... 838 00:50:01,732 --> 00:50:04,469 say some pretty powerful things about hate. 839 00:50:04,502 --> 00:50:08,339 Now I don't hate anybody, and if we're gonna continue 840 00:50:08,373 --> 00:50:10,175 to work together-- 841 00:50:10,208 --> 00:50:12,910 - You need to understand that to love completely 842 00:50:12,943 --> 00:50:16,481 requires learning to hate properly. 843 00:50:16,514 --> 00:50:19,717 It is to love what God loves and to hate what God hates. 844 00:50:22,220 --> 00:50:25,890 - I want to be clear about something. 845 00:50:25,923 --> 00:50:28,926 We can't have anything to do with the Klan. 846 00:50:28,959 --> 00:50:30,461 - Goes without saying. 847 00:50:32,197 --> 00:50:34,199 - But, uh, you know, I am tolerant, 848 00:50:34,232 --> 00:50:37,302 and I let be against women's lib for the reasons of their choice. 849 00:50:39,704 --> 00:50:44,709 Now about this idea you had for a counter-rally 850 00:50:44,742 --> 00:50:48,746 at the end of their convention at Houston--it's a good one. 851 00:50:48,779 --> 00:50:51,015 - You needn't sell me on my own idea. 852 00:50:51,048 --> 00:50:55,853 - But I would call it a pro-family rally. 853 00:50:55,886 --> 00:50:59,190 And I think if we pooled our resources, 854 00:50:59,224 --> 00:51:01,292 we'd have a pretty good shot at matching their crowds, 855 00:51:01,326 --> 00:51:02,927 don't you think? - Yes. 856 00:51:04,929 --> 00:51:09,300 But if outside groups want to...lend support, 857 00:51:09,334 --> 00:51:11,302 we can't control it. 858 00:51:22,280 --> 00:51:24,282 - So we make a rule. 859 00:51:24,315 --> 00:51:29,120 There's no official group name on any of the signs or buses. 860 00:51:30,588 --> 00:51:32,390 - Understood. 861 00:51:32,423 --> 00:51:36,093 - Now if we pull this off, Houston will be the death knell 862 00:51:36,127 --> 00:51:38,329 of the women's liberation movement. 863 00:51:40,298 --> 00:51:44,068 Let's blow it up. 864 00:51:45,803 --> 00:51:48,139 Tom T. Hall: * Well... 865 00:52:47,598 --> 00:52:49,634 How did you come to write The Feminine Mystique? 866 00:52:49,667 --> 00:52:51,369 I thought there was something wrong with me 867 00:52:51,402 --> 00:52:54,539 because I didn't have an orgasm waxing the kitchen floor. 868 00:53:03,681 --> 00:53:04,715 What is Devs? 869 00:53:06,951 --> 00:53:08,386 What is Devs? 870 00:53:08,419 --> 00:53:09,520 What is Devs? 871 00:53:10,955 --> 00:53:12,723 What is Devs? 872 00:53:13,724 --> 00:53:14,592 What is Devs? 873 00:53:15,293 --> 00:53:16,561 What is Devs? 874 00:53:17,528 --> 00:53:18,563 What is Devs? 875 00:53:34,044 --> 00:53:36,247 I had no idea what I would find 876 00:53:36,281 --> 00:53:38,082 when I went searching for my father. 877 00:53:38,115 --> 00:53:40,885 They flashed the Zodiac Killer, and my heart stopped. 878 00:53:40,918 --> 00:53:43,621 He believes he is the son of the Zodiac. 879 00:53:49,427 --> 00:53:51,696 They had come highly recommended 880 00:53:51,729 --> 00:53:55,199 by a mutual vampire associate of ours, 881 00:53:55,232 --> 00:53:57,735 but nevertheless, I found it prudent 882 00:53:57,768 --> 00:53:59,937 -to run the traditional credit checks... 883 00:53:59,970 --> 00:54:01,639 ...and reference protocols. 884 00:54:01,672 --> 00:54:05,209 Suffice it to say, I am part of the 33% 885 00:54:05,242 --> 00:54:09,280 who find it necessary to utilize my complementary credit check 886 00:54:09,314 --> 00:54:10,748 every year.