At the ceremony, Mrs. Schlafly said, she did not promise to obey, only to cherish. Mrs. Schlafly was introduced to electoral politics in 1952, after Republicans had asked her husband to run for Congress. During much of the 1960s and ’70s Mrs. Schlafly wrote books about national defense issues, often working with Chester Ward, a retired Navy admiral. The next October, Mrs. Schlafly founded and appointed herself chairwoman of Stop ERA, the volunteer organization that became the Eagle Forum. Even as supporters of the Equal Rights Amendment tried to revive it, Mrs. Schlafly strove to make sure it stayed dead.

Source: New York Times September 05, 2016 23:34 UTC