midge decter seven decades in love and war. ms. decter expresses her opinion on such topics as the relationship between the sexes come in the 1960s and 70's women's movement and communists. this is about an hour. >> guest: i would certainly have included it because certainly bringing about a change in the spirit of at least new york city and i think of the whole country. c-span: you--and you talk about your life in here, all the different instances or things that happened in your life. wh--where would you place that as--in the importance of what's happened in this country? >> guest: well, i would place it with world war ii, when suddenly the whole nation was inspirited everybody was worried and everybody had someone to worry about, because it was an enormous army and every family had someone in it. but there was a feeling, a very american feeling, of 'by god, we're on our way and we'll take care of things.' it was very, ver--i was a kid, but it was very, very inspiriting. and this, curiously, in new york, at least, has had the s