. >> she joins forces with -- rosalynnter carter. ms. griffis: i don't think many people expected that. when you have two ladies from different parties, joining the forces, especially at the tail , itof the 1972 ratification was a huge call to arms for e.r.a. proponents, people who supported it. it failed in the end, unfortunately, but it was a moment of both parties coming together to say, yes, women deserve equal rights. >> what were the most influential arguments against the e.r.a.? ms. griffis: easily, hands down, the most influential argument was if the ra were to be put in place -- e.r.a. were to be put in place, women would be subject to the draft. for this time, you were living through the vietnam war or had strong historical memory of the vietnam war, and so the idea that not only men would be the draft, and war, women what is well. certain segments of the population believed women should be protected, that women were more vulnerable and to subject women, of all people to the draft was unthinkable. a lot of historians, myself in