. >> susan b. anthony dedicated her life to reform. >> suffrage in the middle of the 19th century accomplished one goal, it was diametrically opposed to this idea. >> many feared it would be corrupted by politics. >> women in the 19th century had to convince male voters that having the vote would not change anything. that woman would still be devoted to the home, the family, that they would remain pure and innocent, that having the vote would not corrupt them. >> support gradually grew in state and local campaigns. >> leaders like ellen clark sgt come repeatedly stopping these meetings -- , repeatedly stopping these meetings as a politically active figure. doing everything they could to ground the campaign in domesticity. >> despite their efforts, the link made it tough whenever voters were in the big city. a specialist in francisco. >> the problem with san francisco is that women's suffrage as an idea was associated. >> susan b. anthony joined the provision party. a deadly idea in san francisco. liquor wa

so in 1870 this was a time when susan b. anthony was arrested for trying to vote in the congressional election. amanda wahl also was marching to the registrar of voters and demanded to be registered to vote. so susan b. anthony was there, and i think the wahls were embarrassed by one of o.s.b. wahl's sisters who was an opponent for suffrage for women, because she thought it was unfeminine. but o.s.b. wahl, amanda wahl, john mercer langston's wife, carrie wahl langston, they were suffrage activists. >> and when we see -- i importune you to read this, because when we see these dinner gatherings, and just the loomnaloo luminaries of people that were there, we see a galaxy of activists and people that we all know. we see an interracial environment and don't see segregation inside the home. indeed, at one point wahl invites to his home a young man who is a white cousin on the slave side of the family. they have a high time, and the young man writes home that had never been in a finer home or met finer people. >> and his cousins never for

after that in which he said that he was going on the republican party platform and support the susan b. anthony amendment to the constitution which would provide the women the right to vote throughout the united states and wouldn't give each state the right to determine >> from that we will move to election night because we know some of you have questions about there is the outcome. i read that wilson went to bed on election night thinking that he lost. >> he thought he lost and he was -- i wouldn't say he was resigned to it, certainly not -- he was almost about ready to either give up the presidency very nobly or in a huff. it's your call how you describe it. he has a plan where okay, i've lost, i'm getting out, and back then presidents did not take office in january. he had to wait until march. so he had a big interact and you had a situation where the country was drifting towards war. so what do you do? his plan was he would appoint hughes as secretary of state getting the jump on warren harding because the secretary of state was second in line to the presidency. so once hughes was shuffled

conservatives would be upset about it you have already had a statement out friday afternoon from the susan b. anthony list saying that she would be an unacceptable choice. on the substance i would have objections from social conservatives from, pro-lifers, again, i think the bigger problem, at least in terms of practicality, the reason that mitt romney would not want to pick her, because she is pro-choice is because he has already ruled that out and it would raise all of these charges again and again that he is a flip flopper. >> juan: what if it was a difference between winning and losing, steve? i think people want to beat barack obama so badly that they are willing to make some compromises if you will on the social issues. remember, what mitch daniels said. we should run this campaign about the economy. not the social issues. so is it possible that people would say let's just do it? >> i don't think they want to be talking about the social issues but i don't think that that would be the kind of thing that mitt romney would want to compromise on given what he said about it in the past. >> juan: ste

when we walk upstairs and we see susan b. anthony imagine the courage of all the women that came here, i want to tell you the story. many of you have heard it. the first day i went to the white house representing the democrats in the house of representatives, i went to the white house, and i had been there a million times. if i did not think about been apprehensive. i go into the room. as i said at the table, i realize this was not like any other meeting i had never been to at the white house. in fact, it was not like any meeting that any woman had been to let the white house because it was a meeting of the president, the vice president, and the leaders, house and senate, democrat and republican, to talk about the legislative agenda. women had been at the table, appointed by the president, and that is a wonderful thing, but i was sitting there with my power derives from the election of my colleagues, so my voice at the table had a different authority, for lack of a better word. [laughter] >> anyway, if there is president bush, gracio

when we walk upstairs and we see susan b. anthony and alice paul, and imagine the courage of all the women that came here, i want to tell you the story. many of you have heard it. the first day i went to the white house representing the democrats in the house of representatives, i went to the white house, and i had been there a million times. if i did not think about been apprehensive. i go into the room. as i said at the table, i realize this was not like any other meeting i had never been to at the white house. in fact, it was not like any meeting that any woman had been to let the white house because it was a meeting of the president, the vice president, and the leaders, house and senate, democrat and republican, to talk about the legislative agenda. women had been at the table, appointed by the president, and that is a wonderful thing, but i was sitting there with my power derives from the election of my colleagues, so my voice at the table had a different authority, for lack of a better word. [laughter] >> anyway, if there is pr