Word: butler
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Butler Disagre...
William J. Butler, who represented the plaintiffs in Engel v. Vitale, attacked Howe's argument. It is the "very nature" of the first amendment that religion should be discriminated against, he said. Religion is not entitled to the support and power of the state, he added. In Engel v. Vitale, the Supreme Court ruled that the reciting of a state-composed nonsectarian prayer in the New York Schools was unconstitutional...
...week following Harold Macmillian's retirement, Lord Home was everyone's second choice. While R. A. B. Butler and Lord Hailsham split bitterly in quest of the Prime Ministership, Home waited patiently for a deadlock, hoping for the appointment as a compromise candidate. Both the deadlock and the appointment came, but the compromise was only illusory. In seeking to resolve the Butler-Hailsham conflict with Home, unflappable Mac inadvertently produced nothing short of a party revolt...
After holding out for a full day, both the losers reluctantly accepted posts in the new cabinet. Hailsham in his old job as Minister for Science and Butler as Foreign Secretary. More important, two of the party's progressive leaders were so incensed at the selection that they refused to remain in the government. The loss of Iain Macleod, co-chairman of the Tory Party, and of Health Minister Enoch Powell is a scar that no amount of verbal veneer can conceal...
...seemed to verify the Laborite charge that Conservatives really are anachronistic Tory gentlemen. Unlike their Labor opponents, who elect their leaders, the Tories have no formal method of selection: Instead, senior ministers take delicate soundings within the party to arrive at the "proper consensus." It must have rankled Rab Butler that the "consensus" decided on the aristocratic Home while a nation-wide Gallup poll found Butler to be as strong a Prime Ministerial candidate as Labor's Harold Wilson...