>> support has been given by former first ladies ford and johnson and first lady rosalyn carter. that this display of united appeal will add momentum to passage of the amendment in the remaining three states that are needed. >> across town, there was an even bigger gathering. about 11,000 men and women who oppose the beliefs of most of the delegates to the women's conference. >> i'm very proud that they excluded me from that convention, and i'm here where we're not ashamed and not afraid to ask god's blessing on this crowd assembled here today. >> the equal rights amendment should be ratified. >> that is not what american women want. >> we support reproductive freedom for women. >> they simply take the lovely baby and they rip it out. >> all those in favor of the sexual preference resolution, please rise. >> three first ladies approving of sexual perversion and the murder of young people in their mother's womb! what a disgrace! >> it came so very close, and the fact that it didn't pass says a lot about the power of the response to the social experiment of the '70s. >> a lot of us