up next, phyhllis schafly and suzanne venker discuss "the flipside of feminism". women have more power, freedom and education but are less happy. they believe men have been miscast as obstacles on the path to equality for women and contend both sexes have been hurt by feminism. >> i had an interesting and fun life and i don't owe any of it to the feminists. feminism has become a very hot topic. i suppose the reason for that is sarah palin. a feminist cannot resist attacking sarah palin. it is not just because she is a republican and a conservative but because she is a successful woman. she has a cool husband, a great career, making lots of money. she is by any standard a success and they can't stand it. and she is pretty too. feminists don't believe what women can be successful in the united states. they think women are oppressed by the patriarchy. they are held down by mean men. they need the government to rescue them and give them more advantages. that is very unfortunate but you never hear them talk about successful women. margaret thatcher, condoleezza rice, w

but schlafly, who teamed up with her niece, suzanne venker, to write the book, says those achievements are not due to feminism. >> i worked my way though college at a great university and got my degree in 1944 - that was long before the feminism movement got started. i got my masters from harvard no discrimination against women. none whatsoever. my mother got her college degree in 1920, what's the problem? >> the real reason that women have the lives they ha today has to do with technology, and the men behind the technology. it is men who provided america, primarily men, who have provided america with the technology that have freed women up to do things outside the home. the textile industry did far more than women than the feminist movement ever did. >> instead of liberating women, shlafly and venker say the women's rights movement destroyed the institution of marriage, hurt children, and created a matriarchy. they break the current feminist movement into two groups: fringe and elite. >> fringe feminists are women like jessica valenti, and jennifer baumgardner, and amy richards. and t

we do want to thank again our special guest suzanne venker and phyllis schlafly for a wonderful presentation. [applause] >> and to find out more visit the book's web site, the flipside of feminism.com. >> this is a sad day, i have to say, in mrs. kennedy's life. this is the red room, and the reason i show this is that was the first room she complete inside the restoration, but this was the day of her husband's funeral. and she insisted that she meet those who were coming from afar, those who were diplomats, the diplomatic corps from abroad. and so she stood with her brother-in-law, senator edward kennedy to her right, and she insisted on greeting everyone who had come to pay tear respects to her -- their respects to her husband. again, we remember her for her state entertaining. in the short amount of time that she was in the white house, and it was only a little over a thousand days, she and her husband threw 16 state dinners. in the first term, full four years of the w. bush term, they held, i believe, it was two. now, mind you, 9/11 happened during that time, there were security issues, b