in 1915, suffragists insisted catt take the helm of nawsa again.od as she struggled with heart problems and severe migraines. weiss: she did not want to come back in the presidency, but they literally lock her in a room and these hundreds of women come and beg her and so finally she cries, but she says okay. but she says i'll do that only if you consider my new plan, which is called the winning plan. and this is a synthesis of the two approaches that have been used by the suffragists. so it's saying, our goal is the federal amendment, but in the meantime we also are going to work for certain key states to pass women's suffrage. behn: there was no easy button anywhere in the process. and so keeping strong organizations at the state level but also recognizing that there were some states that were not going to hold a referendum or even if they did it stood no chance of winning. and so resources, funds and energy from those states would need to be shuttled into other states. and women from those states who were not going to get the love from the nation