. >> i am curious to elly peterson have a relationship with martha griffith and their support of thequal rights amendment? did they work together? >> the question was elly peterson's friendship with martha griffith and chris when she started off in politics and she writes about this, when she went to work for the republican party the michigan democratic party seem to be on the offensive with all these people like phil hart and her husband and stabler, so she viewed her obviously is a very talented competitor. but they became close later in their lives. group has succeeded in getting the era discharged from the house judiciary committee during the time when elly peterson was assistant chairman of the republican national committee. when elly was in washington at the time of the worst time that women were appointed as generals by president nixon, so she hosted a reception to mark this occasion because she viewed it as a victory for women rather than a victory for republicans. she invited her counterparts on the national committee over to share this reception. i bring this up only becaus

the michigan democratic party seemed to be on the ascendancy with people like phil hart and martha griffiths and her husband and neil stabler. so she viewed her, obviously, as a very talented competitor. but, um, they became close later in their lives, and griffiths succeeded in the getting the era discharged from the house judiciary committee during the time when elly peterson was assistant chairman of the republican national committee. and she, when elly was in washington at the time was the first time that women were appointed as generals by president nixon. and so she hosted a reception to mark this occasion. and because she viewed it as a victory for women rather than a victory for republicans, she invited her counterpart from the democratic national committee over to share in this reception. and i bring this up only because the day that this event happened was the day griffiths -- i guess it was the day that it actually passed the house, and they were very surprised at how fast it passed congress which sort of caught everybody by surprise, um, you know, suddenly they had all these stat