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Caldwell Butler Papers \n 1945-2006","This collection\n consists of ca. 93 cubic feet of materials.","The Ford medical and financial records are closed.","Manley Caldwell Butler was born June 2, 1925 in Roanoke,\n Virginia, where he lived most of his life until his death on \n July 28, 2014. Following service in the Navy in World War II,\n he received his A.B. from the University of Richmond\n in 1948 and his J.D. from the University of Virginia Law\n School in 1950. Butler married June Nolde in 1950. This union\n produced four sons: Manley, Henry, James and Marshall.","Butler served as the City of Roanoke Representative in\n 1960-1961. In 1962 he was elected to the Virginia House of\n Delegates. He was elected Minority Leader in 1966, a position\n he held until 1972 when he was elected to the 92nd U.S.\n Congress from the 6th District of Virginia. Butler served the\n 6th District for a decade. While serving on the Judiciary\n Committee, Butler participated in the impeachment action\n against President Richard M. Nixon during the summer of 1974.\n In the aftermath of Nixon's resignation, Butler was involved\n in the confirmation hearings of Gerald R. Ford and Nelson\n Rockefeller to serve as President and Vice President\n respectively. Butler was a principal architect of the\n Bankruptcy Reform Act of 1978. He was also a member of the\n Committee on Government Operations. In retirement, Butler\n served on the National Bankruptcy Review Commission in the\n years 1995-1997. ","A partner in the firm of Woods, Rogers \u0026 Hazelgrove of\n Roanoke, Virginia from 1983-1998, Mr. Butler held memberships\n in the American Bar Association, the Virginia State Bar, the\n Roanoke Bar Association, the American College of Bankruptcy,\n the Raven Society, the Order of the Coif, and the Board of\n Directors of Dominion Bank Shares Corp of Roanoke. He was also\n a Fellow of the American Bar Foundation and a Director of the\n American Bankruptcy Institute. His fraternal organization\n affiliations include Phi Beta Kappa, Tau Kappa Alpha, Omicron\n Delta Kappa and Phi Gamma Delta.","The \n M(anley)Caldwell Butler\n Papers consist of approximately 96 cu. ft. of materials from 1925-2006. Most of the papers cover the periods 1972-1982 and 1995-1997. The papers are divided\n into seventeen series: June Nolde Butler papers; correspondence and subject files; military service; appointment calendars; campaigns; scrapbooks, clippings and photos; speeches; newsletters, press\n releases, radio reports and weekly reports; voting record;\n constituency correspondence; confirmation of Gerald R. Ford as\n Vice President; impeachment of President\n Richard M. Nixon; Bankruptcy Reform Act of 1978;\n Legal Services Corporation; re-authorization of the Department of Justice\n for the Fiscal Year 1982; Voting Rights Act extension; the National Bankruptcy Review\n Commission, 1995-1997; and Artifacts, 1944-1998. With the exceptions of the first six series and National\n Bankruptcy Review Commission materials, these papers were\n generated during Butler's terms as U. S. Representative for\n the 6th Congressional District of Virginia, 1972 -1982 (93rd\n Congress - 97th Congress).","The refinement levels of processing are mixed. The gradual donation of materials over a period \n of 40 years is chiefly the cause. The Nixon Impeachment and Bankruptcy Reform Act of 1978 materials \n are mostly described down to the folder level. The National Bankruptcy Review Commission materials arrived largely self-arranged. \n Most other areas of the colleciton, however, are largely unprocessed beyond being sorted into tentative series.","This is particularly true of additions made in 2018 through the estate of Butler's son, James. This has resulted in a temporary \n box renumbering in boxes 1-7. There is also a box of artifacts added at the end of all of the papers.","Biographical materials,general correspondence, correspondence with parents and siblings,Letters, \n invitations, menus, calendars, subject files, photos, clippings, artifacts, photos scrapbook (1933-1950)\n and correspondence (1947-1950) with her future husband, M Caldwell Butler","Nixon Impeachment historical studies; Correspondence re publication of book, Stonewall Jim;\n GOP Gala, 2001; certificates of award and merit; records of naval service; education records \n and related materials.","Subjects include: United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit; \n National Bankruptcy Review Commission; Sarah Butler Memorial; Sam Garrison Bar Discipline; \n Bankruptcy Law; Watergate/Impeachment; Susan Aheron; Butler for Governor; Newspaper Items; \n Legal Services Corporation; The Miller Center; and Virginia Cares.","Correspondence, subject files, surveys, election returns, and memorabilia","In addition to campaign and general coverage, these scrapbooks treat: editorials mentioning Butler; economic conferences; farm conferences; HUD and FMHA conferences; Lynchburg Weather Station; minority business conferences.","Most of these appear to have been kept by his Congressional Office Staff. They document his day-to-day official activities.","These also document his official activities.","The recordings range from appearances on Face the Nation to local forums.","There is a variety of publications on a variety of mainly political topics. forms of materials include trade books, government documents, brochures, and magazinies. ","Speeches (1964-2001; bulk 1973-1982) are also\n arranged chronologically. The audience, occasion, and\n location are usually noted. From January 1976 onward, a\n topical index is present in addition to the\n chronological listings that are available for all of the\n years. Some nine speeches are missing from the original\n inventory, while others not on that listing were found\n during processing and added to the finding aid.","Newsletters (1973-1981)were\n generated by Congressman Butler's staff to keep citizens\n of the Sixth District of Virginia informed on issues\n before the House, and on the activities of his office.\n The newsletters(N:) are arranged chronologically with an\n alphabetical reference index that has been updated\n through October 1, 1982. This index includes references\n to Radio Reports(RR#) and Weekly Reports(WR#). News\n (Press) Releases (1972-1982), Radio Reports (1973-1978),\n and Weekly Reports (1979-1982) are arranged\n chronologically and their indices provide brief\n summaries of the topics discussed.","The \n Members Personal Voting\n Record covers the period 1973-1982 (93rd Congress\n First Session to the 97th Congress Second Session). Each\n Congress' voting record is divided into two sessions. A\n cumulative record for each Congress is also present.\n Included here are: roll numbers, dates, daily record\n page number, description, and members response. Each\n record contains a roll call subject guide and an index\n to the voting record. Although Butler began his\n congressional term with the 92nd Congress, there is no\n personal voting record for this time.","The \n Constituency Correspondence is\n almost exclusively from the period of the impeachment of\n Richard M. Nixon. The letters are divided into those\n favoring impeachment and those opposed to this action.\n There is also correspondence in reaction to the pardon\n of Nixon by President Gerald R. Ford.","Materials concerning the \n Confirmation of Gerald R. Ford as\n Vice President include: correspondence, memoranda,\n a briefing book, and transcriptions of testimony and\n proceedings during the hearings.","Ford medical and financial records are closed.","Congressman Butler sat on the House Judiciary\n committee that investigated and voted on the \n impeachment of President Richard M.\n Nixon . The impeachment materials are 15 cu. ft.\n in extent and include: narratives about the Watergate\n break-in and related events, and about the bombing of\n Cambodia; interview transcripts and recorded testimony\n of persons involved in Watergate activities; general\n impeachment inquiry materials(committee notebooks,\n personal notes, etc.); reports on White House\n Surveillance activities; Department of Justice/ITT\n Litigation; Milk Producers Cooperatives investigations;\n papers re the Judiciary Committee's \"Fragile Coalition\";\n general correspondence and memoranda; and printed\n materials. (See also, the series of constituent\n correspondence that precedes the impeachment materials.\n Butler kept an audio diary during the impeachment\n process, and these cassette recordings are included\n here, as are his written notes from this time. Also\n present are partial transcripts of an oral history\n project on the \"Fragile Coalition\" conducted in\n 1974.","Unrevised and unedited","The \n Printed Materials are primarily government documents\n from the period of the impeachment of\n Richard M. Nixon. Below is an enumeration of the titles present from donor gifts 1980-1983. Titles from additions, 1985-2015 are present in these boxes, but not yet listed below.","Book I: December 2, 1971 - June 17,\n 1972","Book I: June 19, 1972 - March 1, 1974 \n Book II: June 17, 1972 - February 9,\n 1973","Book III: June 20, 1972 - March 22,\n 1973","Book IV: March 22, 1973 - April 30,\n 1973","Appendix: Political Matters Memoranda \n I: Presidential Statements \n II: Papers in Criminal Cases \n III: Supplementary Documents \n IV: Political Matters memoranda","Executive Session Hearings Before the Select\n Committee on Presidential Campaign Activities\n of the United States Senate, November\n 13,14,15,16, December 4, 11, 1973.","There are three distinct audio recording projects documenting the days of the House\n Judiciary Committee Nixon Impeachment proceedings in July 1974. The first was part audio\n diary and part interviews involving Rep. Butler and reporter Wayne Woodlief. This project \n ran from May to early August 1974, with most of the recordings being from July. The recordings\n of most of these sessions -- some are missing; it is thought to be few, but there is no definitive \n way of knowing -- are in audio cassettes housed in box 55. There is a user set of CDs of these \n recordings in that box, and there are digital audio files of these tapes housed in Box on the Washington and Lee University \n network. There is also an incomplete set of transcripts for this project in box 54. Woodlief \n spoke of trying to produce a book at least partially based on these tapes. He sent such a proposal\n to Butler on July 10, 1975. The only printed product to emerge from these recordings, however, was \n an extensive article in the July 27, 1975 edition of The Roanoke Times , \n also published in the Virginian-Pilot of the same date.","The second recordings were much more limited in scope. On July 31, 1974, Butler sat down with\n Thomas Mooney, a Judiciary Committee attorney, to record on audiotape, their recollection of \n events as they unfolded on July 22-24. Their primary aim seems to have been capturing the \n drafting of the articles of impeachment. There are transcripts -- again just how complete cannot\n be determined, but not any recordings themselves.","The third project was the most ambitious. It was an attempt to record the Nixon Impeachment memories\n of all of the members of the so-called Fragile Coalition, those Democratic and Republican members of \n the House Judiciary Committee who held the swing votes on impeachment. They came together to draft \n articles of impeachment on which they could all vote \"yes\".","The organizers of this project were Thomas Mooney Sr., Stephen Lynch, and Father Donald Shea, longtime chair\n of the history department at St. Joseph College (Indiana). Mooney was a St. Joseph College alumnus and friend\n of Father Shea. The project was funded by St. Joseph College, and other private funds were solicited, as well.","The project had two parts. In the first part, the organizers interviewed members of the coalition \n individually in their Washington Congressional offices in June 1975. This was followed by a retreat on Hilton Head \n Island, SC in July 1975. Extensive aide memoire printed materials were gathered and given to each member of the coalition \n in advance. The recordings made there were in panel format only, with all of the Fragile Coalition members present.","There are no recordings from this project in the Butler papers. There are transcripts -- once again, there is no\n telling how complete -- from both the individual interviews and the Hilton Head panels. There is a third category of\n transcripts, those with interviewees' corrections handwritten on transcriptions. These corrected copies are from both the \n individual and group sessions. Some of these transcripts were sent to Butler and the Powell Archives by the University\n of Maine's Fogler Library which houses the papers of Fragile Coalition member William Cohen.","Unlike the printed materials that are found throughout the Impeachment series, these books and magazines\n are not government documents. There are copies of Time, Newsweek, and\n Life magazines from the time of the impeachment. There are also books and \n a college thesis giving retropective views on that period.","The \n Bankruptcy Materials are 18\n cu. ft. of papers documenting Butler's work in the\n drafting and passage of the legislation popularly known\n as the Bankruptcy Reform Act of 1978. Forms of materials\n present include: minutes of the Bankruptcy Commission,\n markup books on various versions of bankruptcy bills,\n memoranda, briefing materials, meetings transcripts,\n hearing transcripts, conference materials, Congressional\n Record Notebooks, audio tapes of markup sessions, and\n supplemental information on bankruptcy legislation with\n relevant testimony.","This material was arranged by Butler's office into\n three major components: 1)general materials in\n ring-binder notebooks to which Roman Numerals were\n assigned; 2)\"Supplemental Materials: ... \" filed in\n \"books\" numbered 1-45; and, 3) Ken Klee's research\n materials. The arrangement of these materials is not\n easily grasped, but the donor has provided a \"road map.\"\n A Butler document from around 1980 entitled \"The\n Narrative History of the Bankruptcy Act Revision\"\n provides a concise, informal legislative history of the\n Bankruptcy Reform Act of 1978 from Mr. Butler's\n perspective. It also discusses the creation and\n arrangement of these records and includes references to\n the Roman numeral numbering scheme employed by Butler's\n staff. This narrative is found in the first folder of\n the first box of bankruptcy materials(box 57). A second\n helpful narrative entitled \"The Establishment of the\n Commission\" states the reasons that impelled Congress to\n establish the Commission on Bankruptcy in June of 1970.\n This can be found in box 71 in the folder titled \"Mun.\n 5.\" Ken Klee's article on bankruptcy legislative (box\n 72) may also be of use in understanding events leading\n up to the 1978 act. The article is entitled, \"Congress\n and the Bankruptcy Act of 1976,\" and appeared in volume\n 61 of the \n American Bar Association\n Journal (October, 1975).","The \n general materials have been\n removed from the ring-binders, but the folders that now\n hold them are labeled with the Roman numeral\n corresponding to the binder in which they were formerly\n housed. Everything from 1971 research materials to the\n printed public law version of the 1978 Bankruptcy Reform\n Act can be found here. Books and pamphlets printed by\n the Government Office of Printing are found in Roman\n numeral sections I and III-IX. Included here are the\n Commission on Bankruptcy Laws Report, H.R. 10792, H.R.\n 16643, Hearings on H.R. 31 and H.R. 32, Hearings on S.\n 235, S. 236, H.R. 6, and oversized side-by-side\n comparisons of VI (H) and XIII of H.R. 31 and 32 and S.\n 2266 and H.R. 8200 (stored in box 75).","All of the \"Supplemental Legislation and Testimony\"\n is contained in 45 \"books\" and includes correspondence,\n notes and paste-ups of various sections of proposed\n versions of the bankruptcy bill. Section \"F,\" of XLIII\n \"Conference Materials\" (Box 61, Folder 9 from the\n general materials described above) contains the index to\n the 45 books. Much of the contents are reiterations of\n information from the \"Roman numeral\" notebooks arranged\n for quick reference. Testimony is arranged by bill\n section.","The Ken Klee's bankruptcy files were created while\n Klee served as associate counsel for the Subcommittee on\n Civil and Constitutional Rights of the House Committee\n on the Judiciary. They are 4 cu. ft. in extent and are\n divided into three sections: uniform bankruptcy file,\n municipal bankruptcy file (MUN), and bankruptcy act\n subject files. An index to Klee's files is contained in\n Section \"E\" of XLIII \"Conference Materials\" (Box 61,\n Folder 9). The Uniform Bankruptcy Files are arranged\n numerically beginning with the number 102 and contain\n statements, testimonies, correspondence, memoranda,\n drafts and other relevant materials regarding the\n proposed bankruptcy rules. The Municipal Bankruptcy File\n is arranged numerically. The files are designated MUN\n with a corresponding number. These files also contain\n drafts, testimonies, statements, memorandums and\n reports. Klee's Bankruptcy Subject Files are arranged\n alphabetically. Included here (under 'g') is general\n correspondence from 1973-1978.","#I - LII","(A) \n March 19-June 14, 1971 \n September 15,16-November 15, 1971 \n December 13-January 30,31, 1972 \n April 10-May 1, 1972 \n June 12-September 11-12, 1972 \n October 9-10, 1972 \n November 13-14, 1972 \n December 4-5, 1972","(B) \n December 4-5, 1972 \n January 15-16, 1973 \n February 22-24, 1973 \n March 15-17, 1973 \n April 12-14, 1973 \n June 7-12, 1973","(A) \n (B) \n (C)","(A) \n (B) \n (C)","(E) \n (F) \n (G) \n (H) -- Side-by-Side of H.R. 31 and H.R.\n 32 (2 copies) September 2, 1975. In oversize\n carton 49.","(A) \n (B) \n (C)","(A) \n (B)","(A)","(B) \n (C)","(A) \n (B)","Source 13 260;263 \n Source 14 322-323 \n Source 15 336 \n Source 20 412-415 \n Source 23A 502 \n Source 50 549;554-555 \n Source 30 587-588 \n Source 31 595-596 \n Source 33 612-613","Books for S. 2266 and H.R. 8200; H.R. 31 and H.R. 32\n ","Published by San Diego Urban League,\n Inc.","Enclosed copy of RRRA and RRRRA","Legal Services Corporation\n Act papers consist of one cu. ft. of materials\n concerning the authorization of funding for this entity\n for the fiscal years 1982-1984. Included here are: the\n authorization bill, itself; correspondence; \"discussion\n papers\"; press clippings; transcripts of testimony and\n hearing proceedings. (The one file of material about the\n re-authorization of the Department of Justice follows\n the Legal Services papers.)","The \n Voting Rights Act Extension series comprises Butler's legislative papers as a member of the House Judiciary Committee during the consideration of the extension of this Act.","The \n National Bankruptcy Review\n Commission papers are from Butler's service as a\n member of that body from 1995-1997. These 16 cu. ft. of\n materials include: correspondence; meeting minutes;\n memoranda and documents distributed to commission\n members; and the report of the commission and drafts of\n that report.","Box 91 includes audio cassette of\n \"discharge/reaffirmation hearing,\" 1997.","Bicentennial of American Revolution Flag; Bicentennial Medal, 1976; American College of Bankruptcy Commendation plaque, March 14, 1998.","Navy hat, brass buttons, insignia, pins and dog tags.","Contents: 24\"x36 inch photo of Butler, c. 1961; House Concurrent Resolution 672, July 1, 1976; Washington and Lee University Honorary Doctor of Laws Diploma, June 1, 1978; Birthday card from staff, June 2, 1973; National Small Business Association Certificate of Recognition, October 1978; certificate, Governor George Allen (Virgini) naming Butler to Governor's Advisory Council on Self-Determination and Federalism, November 14, 1994.","There are no restrictions.","English"],"unitid_tesim":["004"],"normalized_title_ssm":["M. Caldwell Butler Papers \n 1945-2006"],"collection_title_tesim":["M. Caldwell Butler Papers \n 1945-2006"],"collection_ssim":["M. Caldwell Butler Papers \n 1945-2006"],"repository_ssm":["Washington and Lee University, Law School"],"repository_ssim":["Washington and Lee University, Law School"],"acqinfo_ssim":["This collection was given to the library by M. Caldwell\n Butler in 1980-1983,1997,1999, 2004 and by his estate in 2015."],"has_online_content_ssim":["false"],"physdesc_tesim":["This collection\n consists of ca. 93 cubic feet of materials."],"accessrestrict_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThe Ford medical and financial records are closed.\u003c/p\u003e"],"accessrestrict_heading_ssm":["Access"],"accessrestrict_tesim":["The Ford medical and financial records are closed."],"bioghist_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eManley Caldwell Butler was born June 2, 1925 in Roanoke,\n Virginia, where he lived most of his life until his death on \n July 28, 2014. Following service in the Navy in World War II,\n he received his A.B. from the University of Richmond\n in 1948 and his J.D. from the University of Virginia Law\n School in 1950. Butler married June Nolde in 1950. This union\n produced four sons: Manley, Henry, James and Marshall.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eButler served as the City of Roanoke Representative in\n 1960-1961. In 1962 he was elected to the Virginia House of\n Delegates. He was elected Minority Leader in 1966, a position\n he held until 1972 when he was elected to the 92nd U.S.\n Congress from the 6th District of Virginia. Butler served the\n 6th District for a decade. While serving on the Judiciary\n Committee, Butler participated in the impeachment action\n against President Richard M. Nixon during the summer of 1974.\n In the aftermath of Nixon's resignation, Butler was involved\n in the confirmation hearings of Gerald R. Ford and Nelson\n Rockefeller to serve as President and Vice President\n respectively. Butler was a principal architect of the\n Bankruptcy Reform Act of 1978. He was also a member of the\n Committee on Government Operations. In retirement, Butler\n served on the National Bankruptcy Review Commission in the\n years 1995-1997. \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA partner in the firm of Woods, Rogers \u0026amp; Hazelgrove of\n Roanoke, Virginia from 1983-1998, Mr. Butler held memberships\n in the American Bar Association, the Virginia State Bar, the\n Roanoke Bar Association, the American College of Bankruptcy,\n the Raven Society, the Order of the Coif, and the Board of\n Directors of Dominion Bank Shares Corp of Roanoke. He was also\n a Fellow of the American Bar Foundation and a Director of the\n American Bankruptcy Institute. His fraternal organization\n affiliations include Phi Beta Kappa, Tau Kappa Alpha, Omicron\n Delta Kappa and Phi Gamma Delta.\u003c/p\u003e"],"bioghist_heading_ssm":["Biographical/Historical Information"],"bioghist_tesim":["Manley Caldwell Butler was born June 2, 1925 in Roanoke,\n Virginia, where he lived most of his life until his death on \n July 28, 2014. Following service in the Navy in World War II,\n he received his A.B. from the University of Richmond\n in 1948 and his J.D. from the University of Virginia Law\n School in 1950. Butler married June Nolde in 1950. This union\n produced four sons: Manley, Henry, James and Marshall.","Butler served as the City of Roanoke Representative in\n 1960-1961. In 1962 he was elected to the Virginia House of\n Delegates. He was elected Minority Leader in 1966, a position\n he held until 1972 when he was elected to the 92nd U.S.\n Congress from the 6th District of Virginia. Butler served the\n 6th District for a decade. While serving on the Judiciary\n Committee, Butler participated in the impeachment action\n against President Richard M. Nixon during the summer of 1974.\n In the aftermath of Nixon's resignation, Butler was involved\n in the confirmation hearings of Gerald R. Ford and Nelson\n Rockefeller to serve as President and Vice President\n respectively. Butler was a principal architect of the\n Bankruptcy Reform Act of 1978. He was also a member of the\n Committee on Government Operations. In retirement, Butler\n served on the National Bankruptcy Review Commission in the\n years 1995-1997. ","A partner in the firm of Woods, Rogers \u0026 Hazelgrove of\n Roanoke, Virginia from 1983-1998, Mr. Butler held memberships\n in the American Bar Association, the Virginia State Bar, the\n Roanoke Bar Association, the American College of Bankruptcy,\n the Raven Society, the Order of the Coif, and the Board of\n Directors of Dominion Bank Shares Corp of Roanoke. He was also\n a Fellow of the American Bar Foundation and a Director of the\n American Bankruptcy Institute. His fraternal organization\n affiliations include Phi Beta Kappa, Tau Kappa Alpha, Omicron\n Delta Kappa and Phi Gamma Delta."],"prefercite_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eM. Caldwell Butler Papers, 1945-2006, Ms 004,\n Lewis F. Powell, Jr. Archives, Washington and Lee\n University School of Law, Lexington, VA\u003c/p\u003e"],"prefercite_tesim":["M. Caldwell Butler Papers, 1945-2006, Ms 004,\n Lewis F. Powell, Jr. Archives, Washington and Lee\n University School of Law, Lexington, VA"],"scopecontent_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThe \n M(anley)Caldwell Butler\n Papers consist of approximately 96 cu. ft. of materials from 1925-2006. Most of the papers cover the periods 1972-1982 and 1995-1997. The papers are divided\n into seventeen series: June Nolde Butler papers; correspondence and subject files; military service; appointment calendars; campaigns; scrapbooks, clippings and photos; speeches; newsletters, press\n releases, radio reports and weekly reports; voting record;\n constituency correspondence; confirmation of Gerald R. Ford as\n Vice President; impeachment of President\n Richard M. Nixon; Bankruptcy Reform Act of 1978;\n Legal Services Corporation; re-authorization of the Department of Justice\n for the Fiscal Year 1982; Voting Rights Act extension; the National Bankruptcy Review\n Commission, 1995-1997; and Artifacts, 1944-1998. With the exceptions of the first six series and National\n Bankruptcy Review Commission materials, these papers were\n generated during Butler's terms as U. S. Representative for\n the 6th Congressional District of Virginia, 1972 -1982 (93rd\n Congress - 97th Congress).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe refinement levels of processing are mixed. The gradual donation of materials over a period \n of 40 years is chiefly the cause. The Nixon Impeachment and Bankruptcy Reform Act of 1978 materials \n are mostly described down to the folder level. The National Bankruptcy Review Commission materials arrived largely self-arranged. \n Most other areas of the colleciton, however, are largely unprocessed beyond being sorted into tentative series.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis is particularly true of additions made in 2018 through the estate of Butler's son, James. This has resulted in a temporary \n box renumbering in boxes 1-7. There is also a box of artifacts added at the end of all of the papers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBiographical materials,general correspondence, correspondence with parents and siblings,Letters, \n invitations, menus, calendars, subject files, photos, clippings, artifacts, photos scrapbook (1933-1950)\n and correspondence (1947-1950) with her future husband, M Caldwell Butler\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNixon Impeachment historical studies; Correspondence re publication of book, Stonewall Jim;\n GOP Gala, 2001; certificates of award and merit; records of naval service; education records \n and related materials.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSubjects include: United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit; \n National Bankruptcy Review Commission; Sarah Butler Memorial; Sam Garrison Bar Discipline; \n Bankruptcy Law; Watergate/Impeachment; Susan Aheron; Butler for Governor; Newspaper Items; \n Legal Services Corporation; The Miller Center; and Virginia Cares.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence, subject files, surveys, election returns, and memorabilia\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIn addition to campaign and general coverage, these scrapbooks treat: editorials mentioning Butler; economic conferences; farm conferences; HUD and FMHA conferences; Lynchburg Weather Station; minority business conferences.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMost of these appear to have been kept by his Congressional Office Staff. They document his day-to-day official activities.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThese also document his official activities.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe recordings range from appearances on \u003ctitle render=\"italic\"\u003eFace the Nation \u003c/title\u003e to local forums.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere is a variety of publications on a variety of mainly political topics. forms of materials include trade books, government documents, brochures, and magazinies. \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eSpeeches\u003c/emph\u003e(1964-2001; bulk 1973-1982) are also\n arranged chronologically. The audience, occasion, and\n location are usually noted. From January 1976 onward, a\n topical index is present in addition to the\n chronological listings that are available for all of the\n years. Some nine speeches are missing from the original\n inventory, while others not on that listing were found\n during processing and added to the finding aid.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eNewsletters\u003c/emph\u003e(1973-1981)were\n generated by Congressman Butler's staff to keep citizens\n of the Sixth District of Virginia informed on issues\n before the House, and on the activities of his office.\n The newsletters(N:) are arranged chronologically with an\n alphabetical reference index that has been updated\n through October 1, 1982. This index includes references\n to Radio Reports(RR#) and Weekly Reports(WR#). News\n (Press) Releases (1972-1982), Radio Reports (1973-1978),\n and Weekly Reports (1979-1982) are arranged\n chronologically and their indices provide brief\n summaries of the topics discussed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe \n \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eMembers Personal Voting\n Record\u003c/emph\u003ecovers the period 1973-1982 (93rd Congress\n First Session to the 97th Congress Second Session). Each\n Congress' voting record is divided into two sessions. A\n cumulative record for each Congress is also present.\n Included here are: roll numbers, dates, daily record\n page number, description, and members response. Each\n record contains a roll call subject guide and an index\n to the voting record. Although Butler began his\n congressional term with the 92nd Congress, there is no\n personal voting record for this time.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe \n \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eConstituency Correspondence\u003c/emph\u003eis\n almost exclusively from the period of the impeachment of\n Richard M. Nixon. The letters are divided into those\n favoring impeachment and those opposed to this action.\n There is also correspondence in reaction to the pardon\n of Nixon by President Gerald R. Ford.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMaterials concerning the \n \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eConfirmation of Gerald R. Ford as\n Vice President\u003c/emph\u003einclude: correspondence, memoranda,\n a briefing book, and transcriptions of testimony and\n proceedings during the hearings.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFord medical and financial records are closed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCongressman Butler sat on the House Judiciary\n committee that investigated and voted on the \n \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eimpeachment of President Richard M.\n Nixon\u003c/emph\u003e. The impeachment materials are 15 cu. ft.\n in extent and include: narratives about the Watergate\n break-in and related events, and about the bombing of\n Cambodia; interview transcripts and recorded testimony\n of persons involved in Watergate activities; general\n impeachment inquiry materials(committee notebooks,\n personal notes, etc.); reports on White House\n Surveillance activities; Department of Justice/ITT\n Litigation; Milk Producers Cooperatives investigations;\n papers re the Judiciary Committee's \"Fragile Coalition\";\n general correspondence and memoranda; and printed\n materials. (See also, the series of constituent\n correspondence that precedes the impeachment materials.\n Butler kept an audio diary during the impeachment\n process, and these cassette recordings are included\n here, as are his written notes from this time. Also\n present are partial transcripts of an oral history\n project on the \"Fragile Coalition\" conducted in\n 1974.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eUnrevised and unedited\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe \n \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003ePrinted Materials\u003c/emph\u003eare primarily government documents\n from the period of the impeachment of\n Richard M. Nixon. Below is an enumeration of the titles present from donor gifts 1980-1983. Titles from additions, 1985-2015 are present in these boxes, but not yet listed below.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBook I: December 2, 1971 - June 17,\n 1972\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBook I: June 19, 1972 - March 1, 1974 \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eBook II: June 17, 1972 - February 9,\n 1973\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBook III: June 20, 1972 - March 22,\n 1973\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBook IV: March 22, 1973 - April 30,\n 1973\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAppendix: Political Matters Memoranda \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eI: Presidential Statements \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eII: Papers in Criminal Cases \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eIII: Supplementary Documents \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eIV: Political Matters memoranda\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eExecutive Session Hearings Before the Select\n Committee on Presidential Campaign Activities\n of the United States Senate, November\n 13,14,15,16, December 4, 11, 1973.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere are three distinct audio recording projects documenting the days of the House\n Judiciary Committee Nixon Impeachment proceedings in July 1974. The first was part audio\n diary and part interviews involving Rep. Butler and reporter Wayne Woodlief. This project \n ran from May to early August 1974, with most of the recordings being from July. The recordings\n of most of these sessions -- some are missing; it is thought to be few, but there is no definitive \n way of knowing -- are in audio cassettes housed in box 55. There is a user set of CDs of these \n recordings in that box, and there are digital audio files of these tapes housed in Box on the Washington and Lee University \n network. There is also an incomplete set of transcripts for this project in box 54. Woodlief \n spoke of trying to produce a book at least partially based on these tapes. He sent such a proposal\n to Butler on July 10, 1975. The only printed product to emerge from these recordings, however, was \n an extensive article in the July 27, 1975 edition of The \u003ctitle render=\"italic\"\u003eRoanoke Times\u003c/title\u003e, \n also published in the \u003ctitle render=\"italic\"\u003eVirginian-Pilot\u003c/title\u003e of the same date.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe second recordings were much more limited in scope. On July 31, 1974, Butler sat down with\n Thomas Mooney, a Judiciary Committee attorney, to record on audiotape, their recollection of \n events as they unfolded on July 22-24. Their primary aim seems to have been capturing the \n drafting of the articles of impeachment. There are transcripts -- again just how complete cannot\n be determined, but not any recordings themselves.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe third project was the most ambitious. It was an attempt to record the Nixon Impeachment memories\n of all of the members of the so-called Fragile Coalition, those Democratic and Republican members of \n the House Judiciary Committee who held the swing votes on impeachment. They came together to draft \n articles of impeachment on which they could all vote \"yes\".\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe organizers of this project were Thomas Mooney Sr., Stephen Lynch, and Father Donald Shea, longtime chair\n of the history department at St. Joseph College (Indiana). Mooney was a St. Joseph College alumnus and friend\n of Father Shea. The project was funded by St. Joseph College, and other private funds were solicited, as well.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe project had two parts. In the first part, the organizers interviewed members of the coalition \n individually in their Washington Congressional offices in June 1975. This was followed by a retreat on Hilton Head \n Island, SC in July 1975. Extensive aide memoire printed materials were gathered and given to each member of the coalition \n in advance. The recordings made there were in panel format only, with all of the Fragile Coalition members present.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere are no recordings from this project in the Butler papers. There are transcripts -- once again, there is no\n telling how complete -- from both the individual interviews and the Hilton Head panels. There is a third category of\n transcripts, those with interviewees' corrections handwritten on transcriptions. These corrected copies are from both the \n individual and group sessions. Some of these transcripts were sent to Butler and the Powell Archives by the University\n of Maine's Fogler Library which houses the papers of Fragile Coalition member William Cohen.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eUnlike the printed materials that are found throughout the Impeachment series, these books and magazines\n are not government documents. There are copies of \u003ctitle render=\"italic\"\u003eTime, Newsweek,\u003c/title\u003e and\n \u003ctitle render=\"italic\"\u003eLife\u003c/title\u003e magazines from the time of the impeachment. There are also books and \n a college thesis giving retropective views on that period.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe \n \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eBankruptcy Materials\u003c/emph\u003eare 18\n cu. ft. of papers documenting Butler's work in the\n drafting and passage of the legislation popularly known\n as the Bankruptcy Reform Act of 1978. Forms of materials\n present include: minutes of the Bankruptcy Commission,\n markup books on various versions of bankruptcy bills,\n memoranda, briefing materials, meetings transcripts,\n hearing transcripts, conference materials, Congressional\n Record Notebooks, audio tapes of markup sessions, and\n supplemental information on bankruptcy legislation with\n relevant testimony.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis material was arranged by Butler's office into\n three major components: 1)general materials in\n ring-binder notebooks to which Roman Numerals were\n assigned; 2)\"Supplemental Materials: ... \" filed in\n \"books\" numbered 1-45; and, 3) Ken Klee's research\n materials. The arrangement of these materials is not\n easily grasped, but the donor has provided a \"road map.\"\n A Butler document from around 1980 entitled \"The\n Narrative History of the Bankruptcy Act Revision\"\n provides a concise, informal legislative history of the\n Bankruptcy Reform Act of 1978 from Mr. Butler's\n perspective. It also discusses the creation and\n arrangement of these records and includes references to\n the Roman numeral numbering scheme employed by Butler's\n staff. This narrative is found in the first folder of\n the first box of bankruptcy materials(box 57). A second\n helpful narrative entitled \"The Establishment of the\n Commission\" states the reasons that impelled Congress to\n establish the Commission on Bankruptcy in June of 1970.\n This can be found in box 71 in the folder titled \"Mun.\n 5.\" Ken Klee's article on bankruptcy legislative (box\n 72) may also be of use in understanding events leading\n up to the 1978 act. The article is entitled, \"Congress\n and the Bankruptcy Act of 1976,\" and appeared in volume\n 61 of the \n \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eAmerican Bar Association\n Journal\u003c/title\u003e(October, 1975).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe \n \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003egeneral materials\u003c/emph\u003ehave been\n removed from the ring-binders, but the folders that now\n hold them are labeled with the Roman numeral\n corresponding to the binder in which they were formerly\n housed. Everything from 1971 research materials to the\n printed public law version of the 1978 Bankruptcy Reform\n Act can be found here. Books and pamphlets printed by\n the Government Office of Printing are found in Roman\n numeral sections I and III-IX. Included here are the\n Commission on Bankruptcy Laws Report, H.R. 10792, H.R.\n 16643, Hearings on H.R. 31 and H.R. 32, Hearings on S.\n 235, S. 236, H.R. 6, and oversized side-by-side\n comparisons of VI (H) and XIII of H.R. 31 and 32 and S.\n 2266 and H.R. 8200 (stored in box 75).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAll of the \"Supplemental Legislation and Testimony\"\n is contained in 45 \"books\" and includes correspondence,\n notes and paste-ups of various sections of proposed\n versions of the bankruptcy bill. Section \"F,\" of XLIII\n \"Conference Materials\" (Box 61, Folder 9 from the\n general materials described above) contains the index to\n the 45 books. Much of the contents are reiterations of\n information from the \"Roman numeral\" notebooks arranged\n for quick reference. Testimony is arranged by bill\n section.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe Ken Klee's bankruptcy files were created while\n Klee served as associate counsel for the Subcommittee on\n Civil and Constitutional Rights of the House Committee\n on the Judiciary. They are 4 cu. ft. in extent and are\n divided into three sections: uniform bankruptcy file,\n municipal bankruptcy file (MUN), and bankruptcy act\n subject files. An index to Klee's files is contained in\n Section \"E\" of XLIII \"Conference Materials\" (Box 61,\n Folder 9). The Uniform Bankruptcy Files are arranged\n numerically beginning with the number 102 and contain\n statements, testimonies, correspondence, memoranda,\n drafts and other relevant materials regarding the\n proposed bankruptcy rules. The Municipal Bankruptcy File\n is arranged numerically. The files are designated MUN\n with a corresponding number. These files also contain\n drafts, testimonies, statements, memorandums and\n reports. Klee's Bankruptcy Subject Files are arranged\n alphabetically. Included here (under 'g') is general\n correspondence from 1973-1978.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e#I - LII\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e(A) \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eMarch 19-June 14, 1971 \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eSeptember 15,16-November 15, 1971 \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eDecember 13-January 30,31, 1972 \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eApril 10-May 1, 1972 \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eJune 12-September 11-12, 1972 \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eOctober 9-10, 1972 \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eNovember 13-14, 1972 \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eDecember 4-5, 1972\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e(B) \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eDecember 4-5, 1972 \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eJanuary 15-16, 1973 \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eFebruary 22-24, 1973 \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eMarch 15-17, 1973 \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eApril 12-14, 1973 \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eJune 7-12, 1973\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e(A) \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e(B) \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e(C)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e(A) \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e(B) \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e(C)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e(E) \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e(F) \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e(G) \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e(H) -- Side-by-Side of H.R. 31 and H.R.\n 32 (2 copies) September 2, 1975. In oversize\n carton 49.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e(A) \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e(B) \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e(C)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e(A) \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e(B)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e(A)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e(B) \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e(C)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e(A) \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e(B)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSource 13 260;263 \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eSource 14 322-323 \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eSource 15 336 \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eSource 20 412-415 \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eSource 23A 502 \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eSource 50 549;554-555 \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eSource 30 587-588 \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eSource 31 595-596 \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eSource 33 612-613\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBooks for S. 2266 and H.R. 8200; H.R. 31 and H.R. 32\n \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePublished by San Diego Urban League,\n Inc.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEnclosed copy of RRRA and RRRRA\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eLegal Services Corporation\n Act\u003c/emph\u003epapers consist of one cu. ft. of materials\n concerning the authorization of funding for this entity\n for the fiscal years 1982-1984. Included here are: the\n authorization bill, itself; correspondence; \"discussion\n papers\"; press clippings; transcripts of testimony and\n hearing proceedings. (The one file of material about the\n re-authorization of the Department of Justice follows\n the Legal Services papers.)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe \n \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eVoting Rights Act Extension\u003c/emph\u003eseries comprises Butler's legislative papers as a member of the House Judiciary Committee during the consideration of the extension of this Act.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe \n \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eNational Bankruptcy Review\n Commission\u003c/emph\u003epapers are from Butler's service as a\n member of that body from 1995-1997. These 16 cu. ft. of\n materials include: correspondence; meeting minutes;\n memoranda and documents distributed to commission\n members; and the report of the commission and drafts of\n that report.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBox 91 includes audio cassette of\n \"discharge/reaffirmation hearing,\" 1997.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBicentennial of American Revolution Flag; Bicentennial Medal, 1976; American College of Bankruptcy Commendation plaque, March 14, 1998.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNavy hat, brass buttons, insignia, pins and dog tags.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eContents: 24\"x36 inch photo of Butler, c. 1961; House Concurrent Resolution 672, July 1, 1976; Washington and Lee University Honorary Doctor of Laws Diploma, June 1, 1978; Birthday card from staff, June 2, 1973; National Small Business Association Certificate of Recognition, October 1978; certificate, Governor George Allen (Virgini) naming Butler to Governor's Advisory Council on Self-Determination and Federalism, November 14, 1994.\u003c/p\u003e"],"scopecontent_heading_ssm":["Scope and Content Information","Scope and Content\n "],"scopecontent_tesim":["The \n M(anley)Caldwell Butler\n Papers consist of approximately 96 cu. ft. of materials from 1925-2006. Most of the papers cover the periods 1972-1982 and 1995-1997. The papers are divided\n into seventeen series: June Nolde Butler papers; correspondence and subject files; military service; appointment calendars; campaigns; scrapbooks, clippings and photos; speeches; newsletters, press\n releases, radio reports and weekly reports; voting record;\n constituency correspondence; confirmation of Gerald R. Ford as\n Vice President; impeachment of President\n Richard M. Nixon; Bankruptcy Reform Act of 1978;\n Legal Services Corporation; re-authorization of the Department of Justice\n for the Fiscal Year 1982; Voting Rights Act extension; the National Bankruptcy Review\n Commission, 1995-1997; and Artifacts, 1944-1998. With the exceptions of the first six series and National\n Bankruptcy Review Commission materials, these papers were\n generated during Butler's terms as U. S. Representative for\n the 6th Congressional District of Virginia, 1972 -1982 (93rd\n Congress - 97th Congress).","The refinement levels of processing are mixed. The gradual donation of materials over a period \n of 40 years is chiefly the cause. The Nixon Impeachment and Bankruptcy Reform Act of 1978 materials \n are mostly described down to the folder level. The National Bankruptcy Review Commission materials arrived largely self-arranged. \n Most other areas of the colleciton, however, are largely unprocessed beyond being sorted into tentative series.","This is particularly true of additions made in 2018 through the estate of Butler's son, James. This has resulted in a temporary \n box renumbering in boxes 1-7. There is also a box of artifacts added at the end of all of the papers.","Biographical materials,general correspondence, correspondence with parents and siblings,Letters, \n invitations, menus, calendars, subject files, photos, clippings, artifacts, photos scrapbook (1933-1950)\n and correspondence (1947-1950) with her future husband, M Caldwell Butler","Nixon Impeachment historical studies; Correspondence re publication of book, Stonewall Jim;\n GOP Gala, 2001; certificates of award and merit; records of naval service; education records \n and related materials.","Subjects include: United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit; \n National Bankruptcy Review Commission; Sarah Butler Memorial; Sam Garrison Bar Discipline; \n Bankruptcy Law; Watergate/Impeachment; Susan Aheron; Butler for Governor; Newspaper Items; \n Legal Services Corporation; The Miller Center; and Virginia Cares.","Correspondence, subject files, surveys, election returns, and memorabilia","In addition to campaign and general coverage, these scrapbooks treat: editorials mentioning Butler; economic conferences; farm conferences; HUD and FMHA conferences; Lynchburg Weather Station; minority business conferences.","Most of these appear to have been kept by his Congressional Office Staff. They document his day-to-day official activities.","These also document his official activities.","The recordings range from appearances on Face the Nation to local forums.","There is a variety of publications on a variety of mainly political topics. forms of materials include trade books, government documents, brochures, and magazinies. ","Speeches (1964-2001; bulk 1973-1982) are also\n arranged chronologically. The audience, occasion, and\n location are usually noted. From January 1976 onward, a\n topical index is present in addition to the\n chronological listings that are available for all of the\n years. Some nine speeches are missing from the original\n inventory, while others not on that listing were found\n during processing and added to the finding aid.","Newsletters (1973-1981)were\n generated by Congressman Butler's staff to keep citizens\n of the Sixth District of Virginia informed on issues\n before the House, and on the activities of his office.\n The newsletters(N:) are arranged chronologically with an\n alphabetical reference index that has been updated\n through October 1, 1982. This index includes references\n to Radio Reports(RR#) and Weekly Reports(WR#). News\n (Press) Releases (1972-1982), Radio Reports (1973-1978),\n and Weekly Reports (1979-1982) are arranged\n chronologically and their indices provide brief\n summaries of the topics discussed.","The \n Members Personal Voting\n Record covers the period 1973-1982 (93rd Congress\n First Session to the 97th Congress Second Session). Each\n Congress' voting record is divided into two sessions. A\n cumulative record for each Congress is also present.\n Included here are: roll numbers, dates, daily record\n page number, description, and members response. Each\n record contains a roll call subject guide and an index\n to the voting record. Although Butler began his\n congressional term with the 92nd Congress, there is no\n personal voting record for this time.","The \n Constituency Correspondence is\n almost exclusively from the period of the impeachment of\n Richard M. Nixon. The letters are divided into those\n favoring impeachment and those opposed to this action.\n There is also correspondence in reaction to the pardon\n of Nixon by President Gerald R. Ford.","Materials concerning the \n Confirmation of Gerald R. Ford as\n Vice President include: correspondence, memoranda,\n a briefing book, and transcriptions of testimony and\n proceedings during the hearings.","Ford medical and financial records are closed.","Congressman Butler sat on the House Judiciary\n committee that investigated and voted on the \n impeachment of President Richard M.\n Nixon . The impeachment materials are 15 cu. ft.\n in extent and include: narratives about the Watergate\n break-in and related events, and about the bombing of\n Cambodia; interview transcripts and recorded testimony\n of persons involved in Watergate activities; general\n impeachment inquiry materials(committee notebooks,\n personal notes, etc.); reports on White House\n Surveillance activities; Department of Justice/ITT\n Litigation; Milk Producers Cooperatives investigations;\n papers re the Judiciary Committee's \"Fragile Coalition\";\n general correspondence and memoranda; and printed\n materials. (See also, the series of constituent\n correspondence that precedes the impeachment materials.\n Butler kept an audio diary during the impeachment\n process, and these cassette recordings are included\n here, as are his written notes from this time. Also\n present are partial transcripts of an oral history\n project on the \"Fragile Coalition\" conducted in\n 1974.","Unrevised and unedited","The \n Printed Materials are primarily government documents\n from the period of the impeachment of\n Richard M. Nixon. Below is an enumeration of the titles present from donor gifts 1980-1983. Titles from additions, 1985-2015 are present in these boxes, but not yet listed below.","Book I: December 2, 1971 - June 17,\n 1972","Book I: June 19, 1972 - March 1, 1974 \n Book II: June 17, 1972 - February 9,\n 1973","Book III: June 20, 1972 - March 22,\n 1973","Book IV: March 22, 1973 - April 30,\n 1973","Appendix: Political Matters Memoranda \n I: Presidential Statements \n II: Papers in Criminal Cases \n III: Supplementary Documents \n IV: Political Matters memoranda","Executive Session Hearings Before the Select\n Committee on Presidential Campaign Activities\n of the United States Senate, November\n 13,14,15,16, December 4, 11, 1973.","There are three distinct audio recording projects documenting the days of the House\n Judiciary Committee Nixon Impeachment proceedings in July 1974. The first was part audio\n diary and part interviews involving Rep. Butler and reporter Wayne Woodlief. This project \n ran from May to early August 1974, with most of the recordings being from July. The recordings\n of most of these sessions -- some are missing; it is thought to be few, but there is no definitive \n way of knowing -- are in audio cassettes housed in box 55. There is a user set of CDs of these \n recordings in that box, and there are digital audio files of these tapes housed in Box on the Washington and Lee University \n network. There is also an incomplete set of transcripts for this project in box 54. Woodlief \n spoke of trying to produce a book at least partially based on these tapes. He sent such a proposal\n to Butler on July 10, 1975. The only printed product to emerge from these recordings, however, was \n an extensive article in the July 27, 1975 edition of The Roanoke Times , \n also published in the Virginian-Pilot of the same date.","The second recordings were much more limited in scope. On July 31, 1974, Butler sat down with\n Thomas Mooney, a Judiciary Committee attorney, to record on audiotape, their recollection of \n events as they unfolded on July 22-24. Their primary aim seems to have been capturing the \n drafting of the articles of impeachment. There are transcripts -- again just how complete cannot\n be determined, but not any recordings themselves.","The third project was the most ambitious. It was an attempt to record the Nixon Impeachment memories\n of all of the members of the so-called Fragile Coalition, those Democratic and Republican members of \n the House Judiciary Committee who held the swing votes on impeachment. They came together to draft \n articles of impeachment on which they could all vote \"yes\".","The organizers of this project were Thomas Mooney Sr., Stephen Lynch, and Father Donald Shea, longtime chair\n of the history department at St. Joseph College (Indiana). Mooney was a St. Joseph College alumnus and friend\n of Father Shea. The project was funded by St. Joseph College, and other private funds were solicited, as well.","The project had two parts. In the first part, the organizers interviewed members of the coalition \n individually in their Washington Congressional offices in June 1975. This was followed by a retreat on Hilton Head \n Island, SC in July 1975. Extensive aide memoire printed materials were gathered and given to each member of the coalition \n in advance. The recordings made there were in panel format only, with all of the Fragile Coalition members present.","There are no recordings from this project in the Butler papers. There are transcripts -- once again, there is no\n telling how complete -- from both the individual interviews and the Hilton Head panels. There is a third category of\n transcripts, those with interviewees' corrections handwritten on transcriptions. These corrected copies are from both the \n individual and group sessions. Some of these transcripts were sent to Butler and the Powell Archives by the University\n of Maine's Fogler Library which houses the papers of Fragile Coalition member William Cohen.","Unlike the printed materials that are found throughout the Impeachment series, these books and magazines\n are not government documents. There are copies of Time, Newsweek, and\n Life magazines from the time of the impeachment. There are also books and \n a college thesis giving retropective views on that period.","The \n Bankruptcy Materials are 18\n cu. ft. of papers documenting Butler's work in the\n drafting and passage of the legislation popularly known\n as the Bankruptcy Reform Act of 1978. Forms of materials\n present include: minutes of the Bankruptcy Commission,\n markup books on various versions of bankruptcy bills,\n memoranda, briefing materials, meetings transcripts,\n hearing transcripts, conference materials, Congressional\n Record Notebooks, audio tapes of markup sessions, and\n supplemental information on bankruptcy legislation with\n relevant testimony.","This material was arranged by Butler's office into\n three major components: 1)general materials in\n ring-binder notebooks to which Roman Numerals were\n assigned; 2)\"Supplemental Materials: ... \" filed in\n \"books\" numbered 1-45; and, 3) Ken Klee's research\n materials. The arrangement of these materials is not\n easily grasped, but the donor has provided a \"road map.\"\n A Butler document from around 1980 entitled \"The\n Narrative History of the Bankruptcy Act Revision\"\n provides a concise, informal legislative history of the\n Bankruptcy Reform Act of 1978 from Mr. Butler's\n perspective. It also discusses the creation and\n arrangement of these records and includes references to\n the Roman numeral numbering scheme employed by Butler's\n staff. This narrative is found in the first folder of\n the first box of bankruptcy materials(box 57). A second\n helpful narrative entitled \"The Establishment of the\n Commission\" states the reasons that impelled Congress to\n establish the Commission on Bankruptcy in June of 1970.\n This can be found in box 71 in the folder titled \"Mun.\n 5.\" Ken Klee's article on bankruptcy legislative (box\n 72) may also be of use in understanding events leading\n up to the 1978 act. The article is entitled, \"Congress\n and the Bankruptcy Act of 1976,\" and appeared in volume\n 61 of the \n American Bar Association\n Journal (October, 1975).","The \n general materials have been\n removed from the ring-binders, but the folders that now\n hold them are labeled with the Roman numeral\n corresponding to the binder in which they were formerly\n housed. Everything from 1971 research materials to the\n printed public law version of the 1978 Bankruptcy Reform\n Act can be found here. Books and pamphlets printed by\n the Government Office of Printing are found in Roman\n numeral sections I and III-IX. Included here are the\n Commission on Bankruptcy Laws Report, H.R. 10792, H.R.\n 16643, Hearings on H.R. 31 and H.R. 32, Hearings on S.\n 235, S. 236, H.R. 6, and oversized side-by-side\n comparisons of VI (H) and XIII of H.R. 31 and 32 and S.\n 2266 and H.R. 8200 (stored in box 75).","All of the \"Supplemental Legislation and Testimony\"\n is contained in 45 \"books\" and includes correspondence,\n notes and paste-ups of various sections of proposed\n versions of the bankruptcy bill. Section \"F,\" of XLIII\n \"Conference Materials\" (Box 61, Folder 9 from the\n general materials described above) contains the index to\n the 45 books. Much of the contents are reiterations of\n information from the \"Roman numeral\" notebooks arranged\n for quick reference. Testimony is arranged by bill\n section.","The Ken Klee's bankruptcy files were created while\n Klee served as associate counsel for the Subcommittee on\n Civil and Constitutional Rights of the House Committee\n on the Judiciary. They are 4 cu. ft. in extent and are\n divided into three sections: uniform bankruptcy file,\n municipal bankruptcy file (MUN), and bankruptcy act\n subject files. An index to Klee's files is contained in\n Section \"E\" of XLIII \"Conference Materials\" (Box 61,\n Folder 9). The Uniform Bankruptcy Files are arranged\n numerically beginning with the number 102 and contain\n statements, testimonies, correspondence, memoranda,\n drafts and other relevant materials regarding the\n proposed bankruptcy rules. The Municipal Bankruptcy File\n is arranged numerically. The files are designated MUN\n with a corresponding number. These files also contain\n drafts, testimonies, statements, memorandums and\n reports. Klee's Bankruptcy Subject Files are arranged\n alphabetically. Included here (under 'g') is general\n correspondence from 1973-1978.","#I - LII","(A) \n March 19-June 14, 1971 \n September 15,16-November 15, 1971 \n December 13-January 30,31, 1972 \n April 10-May 1, 1972 \n June 12-September 11-12, 1972 \n October 9-10, 1972 \n November 13-14, 1972 \n December 4-5, 1972","(B) \n December 4-5, 1972 \n January 15-16, 1973 \n February 22-24, 1973 \n March 15-17, 1973 \n April 12-14, 1973 \n June 7-12, 1973","(A) \n (B) \n (C)","(A) \n (B) \n (C)","(E) \n (F) \n (G) \n (H) -- Side-by-Side of H.R. 31 and H.R.\n 32 (2 copies) September 2, 1975. In oversize\n carton 49.","(A) \n (B) \n (C)","(A) \n (B)","(A)","(B) \n (C)","(A) \n (B)","Source 13 260;263 \n Source 14 322-323 \n Source 15 336 \n Source 20 412-415 \n Source 23A 502 \n Source 50 549;554-555 \n Source 30 587-588 \n Source 31 595-596 \n Source 33 612-613","Books for S. 2266 and H.R. 8200; H.R. 31 and H.R. 32\n ","Published by San Diego Urban League,\n Inc.","Enclosed copy of RRRA and RRRRA","Legal Services Corporation\n Act papers consist of one cu. ft. of materials\n concerning the authorization of funding for this entity\n for the fiscal years 1982-1984. Included here are: the\n authorization bill, itself; correspondence; \"discussion\n papers\"; press clippings; transcripts of testimony and\n hearing proceedings. (The one file of material about the\n re-authorization of the Department of Justice follows\n the Legal Services papers.)","The \n Voting Rights Act Extension series comprises Butler's legislative papers as a member of the House Judiciary Committee during the consideration of the extension of this Act.","The \n National Bankruptcy Review\n Commission papers are from Butler's service as a\n member of that body from 1995-1997. These 16 cu. ft. of\n materials include: correspondence; meeting minutes;\n memoranda and documents distributed to commission\n members; and the report of the commission and drafts of\n that report.","Box 91 includes audio cassette of\n \"discharge/reaffirmation hearing,\" 1997.","Bicentennial of American Revolution Flag; Bicentennial Medal, 1976; American College of Bankruptcy Commendation plaque, March 14, 1998.","Navy hat, brass buttons, insignia, pins and dog tags.","Contents: 24\"x36 inch photo of Butler, c. 1961; House Concurrent Resolution 672, July 1, 1976; Washington and Lee University Honorary Doctor of Laws Diploma, June 1, 1978; Birthday card from staff, June 2, 1973; National Small Business Association Certificate of Recognition, October 1978; certificate, Governor George Allen (Virgini) naming Butler to Governor's Advisory Council on Self-Determination and Federalism, November 14, 1994."],"userestrict_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThere are no restrictions.\u003c/p\u003e"],"userestrict_heading_ssm":["Use Restrictions"],"userestrict_tesim":["There are no restrictions."],"language_ssim":["English"],"total_component_count_is":567,"online_item_count_is":0,"component_level_isim":[0],"sort_isi":0,"timestamp":"2026-05-20T15:09:15.002Z"}]}},"label":"Breadcrumbs"}}},"links":{"self":"https://arvasarchive.org/catalog/vilxwl_vilxwl00003_c11_c01"}},{"id":"vilxwl_vilxwl00003_c11_c02","type":"Subseries","attributes":{"title":"10.2: News (Press) Releases","breadcrumbs":{"id":"https://arvasarchive.org/catalog/vilxwl_vilxwl00003_c11_c02#breadcrumbs","type":"document_value","attributes":{"value":{"ref_ssi":"vilxwl_vilxwl00003_c11_c02","ref_ssm":["vilxwl_vilxwl00003_c11_c02"],"id":"vilxwl_vilxwl00003_c11_c02","ead_ssi":"vilxwl_vilxwl00003","_root_":"vilxwl_vilxwl00003","_nest_parent_":"vilxwl_vilxwl00003_c11","parent_ssi":"vilxwl_vilxwl00003_c11","parent_ssim":["vilxwl_vilxwl00003","vilxwl_vilxwl00003_c11"],"parent_ids_ssim":["vilxwl_vilxwl00003","vilxwl_vilxwl00003_c11"],"parent_unittitles_ssm":["M. 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Caldwell Butler Papers \n 1945-2006","This collection\n consists of ca. 93 cubic feet of materials.","The Ford medical and financial records are closed.","Manley Caldwell Butler was born June 2, 1925 in Roanoke,\n Virginia, where he lived most of his life until his death on \n July 28, 2014. Following service in the Navy in World War II,\n he received his A.B. from the University of Richmond\n in 1948 and his J.D. from the University of Virginia Law\n School in 1950. Butler married June Nolde in 1950. This union\n produced four sons: Manley, Henry, James and Marshall.","Butler served as the City of Roanoke Representative in\n 1960-1961. In 1962 he was elected to the Virginia House of\n Delegates. He was elected Minority Leader in 1966, a position\n he held until 1972 when he was elected to the 92nd U.S.\n Congress from the 6th District of Virginia. Butler served the\n 6th District for a decade. While serving on the Judiciary\n Committee, Butler participated in the impeachment action\n against President Richard M. Nixon during the summer of 1974.\n In the aftermath of Nixon's resignation, Butler was involved\n in the confirmation hearings of Gerald R. Ford and Nelson\n Rockefeller to serve as President and Vice President\n respectively. Butler was a principal architect of the\n Bankruptcy Reform Act of 1978. He was also a member of the\n Committee on Government Operations. In retirement, Butler\n served on the National Bankruptcy Review Commission in the\n years 1995-1997. ","A partner in the firm of Woods, Rogers \u0026 Hazelgrove of\n Roanoke, Virginia from 1983-1998, Mr. Butler held memberships\n in the American Bar Association, the Virginia State Bar, the\n Roanoke Bar Association, the American College of Bankruptcy,\n the Raven Society, the Order of the Coif, and the Board of\n Directors of Dominion Bank Shares Corp of Roanoke. He was also\n a Fellow of the American Bar Foundation and a Director of the\n American Bankruptcy Institute. His fraternal organization\n affiliations include Phi Beta Kappa, Tau Kappa Alpha, Omicron\n Delta Kappa and Phi Gamma Delta.","The \n M(anley)Caldwell Butler\n Papers consist of approximately 96 cu. ft. of materials from 1925-2006. Most of the papers cover the periods 1972-1982 and 1995-1997. The papers are divided\n into seventeen series: June Nolde Butler papers; correspondence and subject files; military service; appointment calendars; campaigns; scrapbooks, clippings and photos; speeches; newsletters, press\n releases, radio reports and weekly reports; voting record;\n constituency correspondence; confirmation of Gerald R. Ford as\n Vice President; impeachment of President\n Richard M. Nixon; Bankruptcy Reform Act of 1978;\n Legal Services Corporation; re-authorization of the Department of Justice\n for the Fiscal Year 1982; Voting Rights Act extension; the National Bankruptcy Review\n Commission, 1995-1997; and Artifacts, 1944-1998. With the exceptions of the first six series and National\n Bankruptcy Review Commission materials, these papers were\n generated during Butler's terms as U. S. Representative for\n the 6th Congressional District of Virginia, 1972 -1982 (93rd\n Congress - 97th Congress).","The refinement levels of processing are mixed. The gradual donation of materials over a period \n of 40 years is chiefly the cause. The Nixon Impeachment and Bankruptcy Reform Act of 1978 materials \n are mostly described down to the folder level. The National Bankruptcy Review Commission materials arrived largely self-arranged. \n Most other areas of the colleciton, however, are largely unprocessed beyond being sorted into tentative series.","This is particularly true of additions made in 2018 through the estate of Butler's son, James. This has resulted in a temporary \n box renumbering in boxes 1-7. There is also a box of artifacts added at the end of all of the papers.","Biographical materials,general correspondence, correspondence with parents and siblings,Letters, \n invitations, menus, calendars, subject files, photos, clippings, artifacts, photos scrapbook (1933-1950)\n and correspondence (1947-1950) with her future husband, M Caldwell Butler","Nixon Impeachment historical studies; Correspondence re publication of book, Stonewall Jim;\n GOP Gala, 2001; certificates of award and merit; records of naval service; education records \n and related materials.","Subjects include: United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit; \n National Bankruptcy Review Commission; Sarah Butler Memorial; Sam Garrison Bar Discipline; \n Bankruptcy Law; Watergate/Impeachment; Susan Aheron; Butler for Governor; Newspaper Items; \n Legal Services Corporation; The Miller Center; and Virginia Cares.","Correspondence, subject files, surveys, election returns, and memorabilia","In addition to campaign and general coverage, these scrapbooks treat: editorials mentioning Butler; economic conferences; farm conferences; HUD and FMHA conferences; Lynchburg Weather Station; minority business conferences.","Most of these appear to have been kept by his Congressional Office Staff. They document his day-to-day official activities.","These also document his official activities.","The recordings range from appearances on Face the Nation to local forums.","There is a variety of publications on a variety of mainly political topics. forms of materials include trade books, government documents, brochures, and magazinies. ","Speeches (1964-2001; bulk 1973-1982) are also\n arranged chronologically. The audience, occasion, and\n location are usually noted. From January 1976 onward, a\n topical index is present in addition to the\n chronological listings that are available for all of the\n years. Some nine speeches are missing from the original\n inventory, while others not on that listing were found\n during processing and added to the finding aid.","Newsletters (1973-1981)were\n generated by Congressman Butler's staff to keep citizens\n of the Sixth District of Virginia informed on issues\n before the House, and on the activities of his office.\n The newsletters(N:) are arranged chronologically with an\n alphabetical reference index that has been updated\n through October 1, 1982. This index includes references\n to Radio Reports(RR#) and Weekly Reports(WR#). News\n (Press) Releases (1972-1982), Radio Reports (1973-1978),\n and Weekly Reports (1979-1982) are arranged\n chronologically and their indices provide brief\n summaries of the topics discussed.","The \n Members Personal Voting\n Record covers the period 1973-1982 (93rd Congress\n First Session to the 97th Congress Second Session). Each\n Congress' voting record is divided into two sessions. A\n cumulative record for each Congress is also present.\n Included here are: roll numbers, dates, daily record\n page number, description, and members response. Each\n record contains a roll call subject guide and an index\n to the voting record. Although Butler began his\n congressional term with the 92nd Congress, there is no\n personal voting record for this time.","The \n Constituency Correspondence is\n almost exclusively from the period of the impeachment of\n Richard M. Nixon. The letters are divided into those\n favoring impeachment and those opposed to this action.\n There is also correspondence in reaction to the pardon\n of Nixon by President Gerald R. Ford.","Materials concerning the \n Confirmation of Gerald R. Ford as\n Vice President include: correspondence, memoranda,\n a briefing book, and transcriptions of testimony and\n proceedings during the hearings.","Ford medical and financial records are closed.","Congressman Butler sat on the House Judiciary\n committee that investigated and voted on the \n impeachment of President Richard M.\n Nixon . The impeachment materials are 15 cu. ft.\n in extent and include: narratives about the Watergate\n break-in and related events, and about the bombing of\n Cambodia; interview transcripts and recorded testimony\n of persons involved in Watergate activities; general\n impeachment inquiry materials(committee notebooks,\n personal notes, etc.); reports on White House\n Surveillance activities; Department of Justice/ITT\n Litigation; Milk Producers Cooperatives investigations;\n papers re the Judiciary Committee's \"Fragile Coalition\";\n general correspondence and memoranda; and printed\n materials. (See also, the series of constituent\n correspondence that precedes the impeachment materials.\n Butler kept an audio diary during the impeachment\n process, and these cassette recordings are included\n here, as are his written notes from this time. Also\n present are partial transcripts of an oral history\n project on the \"Fragile Coalition\" conducted in\n 1974.","Unrevised and unedited","The \n Printed Materials are primarily government documents\n from the period of the impeachment of\n Richard M. Nixon. Below is an enumeration of the titles present from donor gifts 1980-1983. Titles from additions, 1985-2015 are present in these boxes, but not yet listed below.","Book I: December 2, 1971 - June 17,\n 1972","Book I: June 19, 1972 - March 1, 1974 \n Book II: June 17, 1972 - February 9,\n 1973","Book III: June 20, 1972 - March 22,\n 1973","Book IV: March 22, 1973 - April 30,\n 1973","Appendix: Political Matters Memoranda \n I: Presidential Statements \n II: Papers in Criminal Cases \n III: Supplementary Documents \n IV: Political Matters memoranda","Executive Session Hearings Before the Select\n Committee on Presidential Campaign Activities\n of the United States Senate, November\n 13,14,15,16, December 4, 11, 1973.","There are three distinct audio recording projects documenting the days of the House\n Judiciary Committee Nixon Impeachment proceedings in July 1974. The first was part audio\n diary and part interviews involving Rep. Butler and reporter Wayne Woodlief. This project \n ran from May to early August 1974, with most of the recordings being from July. The recordings\n of most of these sessions -- some are missing; it is thought to be few, but there is no definitive \n way of knowing -- are in audio cassettes housed in box 55. There is a user set of CDs of these \n recordings in that box, and there are digital audio files of these tapes housed in Box on the Washington and Lee University \n network. There is also an incomplete set of transcripts for this project in box 54. Woodlief \n spoke of trying to produce a book at least partially based on these tapes. He sent such a proposal\n to Butler on July 10, 1975. The only printed product to emerge from these recordings, however, was \n an extensive article in the July 27, 1975 edition of The Roanoke Times , \n also published in the Virginian-Pilot of the same date.","The second recordings were much more limited in scope. On July 31, 1974, Butler sat down with\n Thomas Mooney, a Judiciary Committee attorney, to record on audiotape, their recollection of \n events as they unfolded on July 22-24. Their primary aim seems to have been capturing the \n drafting of the articles of impeachment. There are transcripts -- again just how complete cannot\n be determined, but not any recordings themselves.","The third project was the most ambitious. It was an attempt to record the Nixon Impeachment memories\n of all of the members of the so-called Fragile Coalition, those Democratic and Republican members of \n the House Judiciary Committee who held the swing votes on impeachment. They came together to draft \n articles of impeachment on which they could all vote \"yes\".","The organizers of this project were Thomas Mooney Sr., Stephen Lynch, and Father Donald Shea, longtime chair\n of the history department at St. Joseph College (Indiana). Mooney was a St. Joseph College alumnus and friend\n of Father Shea. The project was funded by St. Joseph College, and other private funds were solicited, as well.","The project had two parts. In the first part, the organizers interviewed members of the coalition \n individually in their Washington Congressional offices in June 1975. This was followed by a retreat on Hilton Head \n Island, SC in July 1975. Extensive aide memoire printed materials were gathered and given to each member of the coalition \n in advance. The recordings made there were in panel format only, with all of the Fragile Coalition members present.","There are no recordings from this project in the Butler papers. There are transcripts -- once again, there is no\n telling how complete -- from both the individual interviews and the Hilton Head panels. There is a third category of\n transcripts, those with interviewees' corrections handwritten on transcriptions. These corrected copies are from both the \n individual and group sessions. Some of these transcripts were sent to Butler and the Powell Archives by the University\n of Maine's Fogler Library which houses the papers of Fragile Coalition member William Cohen.","Unlike the printed materials that are found throughout the Impeachment series, these books and magazines\n are not government documents. There are copies of Time, Newsweek, and\n Life magazines from the time of the impeachment. There are also books and \n a college thesis giving retropective views on that period.","The \n Bankruptcy Materials are 18\n cu. ft. of papers documenting Butler's work in the\n drafting and passage of the legislation popularly known\n as the Bankruptcy Reform Act of 1978. Forms of materials\n present include: minutes of the Bankruptcy Commission,\n markup books on various versions of bankruptcy bills,\n memoranda, briefing materials, meetings transcripts,\n hearing transcripts, conference materials, Congressional\n Record Notebooks, audio tapes of markup sessions, and\n supplemental information on bankruptcy legislation with\n relevant testimony.","This material was arranged by Butler's office into\n three major components: 1)general materials in\n ring-binder notebooks to which Roman Numerals were\n assigned; 2)\"Supplemental Materials: ... \" filed in\n \"books\" numbered 1-45; and, 3) Ken Klee's research\n materials. The arrangement of these materials is not\n easily grasped, but the donor has provided a \"road map.\"\n A Butler document from around 1980 entitled \"The\n Narrative History of the Bankruptcy Act Revision\"\n provides a concise, informal legislative history of the\n Bankruptcy Reform Act of 1978 from Mr. Butler's\n perspective. It also discusses the creation and\n arrangement of these records and includes references to\n the Roman numeral numbering scheme employed by Butler's\n staff. This narrative is found in the first folder of\n the first box of bankruptcy materials(box 57). A second\n helpful narrative entitled \"The Establishment of the\n Commission\" states the reasons that impelled Congress to\n establish the Commission on Bankruptcy in June of 1970.\n This can be found in box 71 in the folder titled \"Mun.\n 5.\" Ken Klee's article on bankruptcy legislative (box\n 72) may also be of use in understanding events leading\n up to the 1978 act. The article is entitled, \"Congress\n and the Bankruptcy Act of 1976,\" and appeared in volume\n 61 of the \n American Bar Association\n Journal (October, 1975).","The \n general materials have been\n removed from the ring-binders, but the folders that now\n hold them are labeled with the Roman numeral\n corresponding to the binder in which they were formerly\n housed. Everything from 1971 research materials to the\n printed public law version of the 1978 Bankruptcy Reform\n Act can be found here. Books and pamphlets printed by\n the Government Office of Printing are found in Roman\n numeral sections I and III-IX. Included here are the\n Commission on Bankruptcy Laws Report, H.R. 10792, H.R.\n 16643, Hearings on H.R. 31 and H.R. 32, Hearings on S.\n 235, S. 236, H.R. 6, and oversized side-by-side\n comparisons of VI (H) and XIII of H.R. 31 and 32 and S.\n 2266 and H.R. 8200 (stored in box 75).","All of the \"Supplemental Legislation and Testimony\"\n is contained in 45 \"books\" and includes correspondence,\n notes and paste-ups of various sections of proposed\n versions of the bankruptcy bill. Section \"F,\" of XLIII\n \"Conference Materials\" (Box 61, Folder 9 from the\n general materials described above) contains the index to\n the 45 books. Much of the contents are reiterations of\n information from the \"Roman numeral\" notebooks arranged\n for quick reference. Testimony is arranged by bill\n section.","The Ken Klee's bankruptcy files were created while\n Klee served as associate counsel for the Subcommittee on\n Civil and Constitutional Rights of the House Committee\n on the Judiciary. They are 4 cu. ft. in extent and are\n divided into three sections: uniform bankruptcy file,\n municipal bankruptcy file (MUN), and bankruptcy act\n subject files. An index to Klee's files is contained in\n Section \"E\" of XLIII \"Conference Materials\" (Box 61,\n Folder 9). The Uniform Bankruptcy Files are arranged\n numerically beginning with the number 102 and contain\n statements, testimonies, correspondence, memoranda,\n drafts and other relevant materials regarding the\n proposed bankruptcy rules. The Municipal Bankruptcy File\n is arranged numerically. The files are designated MUN\n with a corresponding number. These files also contain\n drafts, testimonies, statements, memorandums and\n reports. Klee's Bankruptcy Subject Files are arranged\n alphabetically. Included here (under 'g') is general\n correspondence from 1973-1978.","#I - LII","(A) \n March 19-June 14, 1971 \n September 15,16-November 15, 1971 \n December 13-January 30,31, 1972 \n April 10-May 1, 1972 \n June 12-September 11-12, 1972 \n October 9-10, 1972 \n November 13-14, 1972 \n December 4-5, 1972","(B) \n December 4-5, 1972 \n January 15-16, 1973 \n February 22-24, 1973 \n March 15-17, 1973 \n April 12-14, 1973 \n June 7-12, 1973","(A) \n (B) \n (C)","(A) \n (B) \n (C)","(E) \n (F) \n (G) \n (H) -- Side-by-Side of H.R. 31 and H.R.\n 32 (2 copies) September 2, 1975. In oversize\n carton 49.","(A) \n (B) \n (C)","(A) \n (B)","(A)","(B) \n (C)","(A) \n (B)","Source 13 260;263 \n Source 14 322-323 \n Source 15 336 \n Source 20 412-415 \n Source 23A 502 \n Source 50 549;554-555 \n Source 30 587-588 \n Source 31 595-596 \n Source 33 612-613","Books for S. 2266 and H.R. 8200; H.R. 31 and H.R. 32\n ","Published by San Diego Urban League,\n Inc.","Enclosed copy of RRRA and RRRRA","Legal Services Corporation\n Act papers consist of one cu. ft. of materials\n concerning the authorization of funding for this entity\n for the fiscal years 1982-1984. Included here are: the\n authorization bill, itself; correspondence; \"discussion\n papers\"; press clippings; transcripts of testimony and\n hearing proceedings. (The one file of material about the\n re-authorization of the Department of Justice follows\n the Legal Services papers.)","The \n Voting Rights Act Extension series comprises Butler's legislative papers as a member of the House Judiciary Committee during the consideration of the extension of this Act.","The \n National Bankruptcy Review\n Commission papers are from Butler's service as a\n member of that body from 1995-1997. These 16 cu. ft. of\n materials include: correspondence; meeting minutes;\n memoranda and documents distributed to commission\n members; and the report of the commission and drafts of\n that report.","Box 91 includes audio cassette of\n \"discharge/reaffirmation hearing,\" 1997.","Bicentennial of American Revolution Flag; Bicentennial Medal, 1976; American College of Bankruptcy Commendation plaque, March 14, 1998.","Navy hat, brass buttons, insignia, pins and dog tags.","Contents: 24\"x36 inch photo of Butler, c. 1961; House Concurrent Resolution 672, July 1, 1976; Washington and Lee University Honorary Doctor of Laws Diploma, June 1, 1978; Birthday card from staff, June 2, 1973; National Small Business Association Certificate of Recognition, October 1978; certificate, Governor George Allen (Virgini) naming Butler to Governor's Advisory Council on Self-Determination and Federalism, November 14, 1994.","There are no restrictions.","English"],"unitid_tesim":["004"],"normalized_title_ssm":["M. Caldwell Butler Papers \n 1945-2006"],"collection_title_tesim":["M. Caldwell Butler Papers \n 1945-2006"],"collection_ssim":["M. Caldwell Butler Papers \n 1945-2006"],"repository_ssm":["Washington and Lee University, Law School"],"repository_ssim":["Washington and Lee University, Law School"],"acqinfo_ssim":["This collection was given to the library by M. Caldwell\n Butler in 1980-1983,1997,1999, 2004 and by his estate in 2015."],"has_online_content_ssim":["false"],"physdesc_tesim":["This collection\n consists of ca. 93 cubic feet of materials."],"accessrestrict_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThe Ford medical and financial records are closed.\u003c/p\u003e"],"accessrestrict_heading_ssm":["Access"],"accessrestrict_tesim":["The Ford medical and financial records are closed."],"bioghist_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eManley Caldwell Butler was born June 2, 1925 in Roanoke,\n Virginia, where he lived most of his life until his death on \n July 28, 2014. Following service in the Navy in World War II,\n he received his A.B. from the University of Richmond\n in 1948 and his J.D. from the University of Virginia Law\n School in 1950. Butler married June Nolde in 1950. This union\n produced four sons: Manley, Henry, James and Marshall.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eButler served as the City of Roanoke Representative in\n 1960-1961. In 1962 he was elected to the Virginia House of\n Delegates. He was elected Minority Leader in 1966, a position\n he held until 1972 when he was elected to the 92nd U.S.\n Congress from the 6th District of Virginia. Butler served the\n 6th District for a decade. While serving on the Judiciary\n Committee, Butler participated in the impeachment action\n against President Richard M. Nixon during the summer of 1974.\n In the aftermath of Nixon's resignation, Butler was involved\n in the confirmation hearings of Gerald R. Ford and Nelson\n Rockefeller to serve as President and Vice President\n respectively. Butler was a principal architect of the\n Bankruptcy Reform Act of 1978. He was also a member of the\n Committee on Government Operations. In retirement, Butler\n served on the National Bankruptcy Review Commission in the\n years 1995-1997. \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA partner in the firm of Woods, Rogers \u0026amp; Hazelgrove of\n Roanoke, Virginia from 1983-1998, Mr. Butler held memberships\n in the American Bar Association, the Virginia State Bar, the\n Roanoke Bar Association, the American College of Bankruptcy,\n the Raven Society, the Order of the Coif, and the Board of\n Directors of Dominion Bank Shares Corp of Roanoke. He was also\n a Fellow of the American Bar Foundation and a Director of the\n American Bankruptcy Institute. His fraternal organization\n affiliations include Phi Beta Kappa, Tau Kappa Alpha, Omicron\n Delta Kappa and Phi Gamma Delta.\u003c/p\u003e"],"bioghist_heading_ssm":["Biographical/Historical Information"],"bioghist_tesim":["Manley Caldwell Butler was born June 2, 1925 in Roanoke,\n Virginia, where he lived most of his life until his death on \n July 28, 2014. Following service in the Navy in World War II,\n he received his A.B. from the University of Richmond\n in 1948 and his J.D. from the University of Virginia Law\n School in 1950. Butler married June Nolde in 1950. This union\n produced four sons: Manley, Henry, James and Marshall.","Butler served as the City of Roanoke Representative in\n 1960-1961. In 1962 he was elected to the Virginia House of\n Delegates. He was elected Minority Leader in 1966, a position\n he held until 1972 when he was elected to the 92nd U.S.\n Congress from the 6th District of Virginia. Butler served the\n 6th District for a decade. While serving on the Judiciary\n Committee, Butler participated in the impeachment action\n against President Richard M. Nixon during the summer of 1974.\n In the aftermath of Nixon's resignation, Butler was involved\n in the confirmation hearings of Gerald R. Ford and Nelson\n Rockefeller to serve as President and Vice President\n respectively. Butler was a principal architect of the\n Bankruptcy Reform Act of 1978. He was also a member of the\n Committee on Government Operations. In retirement, Butler\n served on the National Bankruptcy Review Commission in the\n years 1995-1997. ","A partner in the firm of Woods, Rogers \u0026 Hazelgrove of\n Roanoke, Virginia from 1983-1998, Mr. Butler held memberships\n in the American Bar Association, the Virginia State Bar, the\n Roanoke Bar Association, the American College of Bankruptcy,\n the Raven Society, the Order of the Coif, and the Board of\n Directors of Dominion Bank Shares Corp of Roanoke. He was also\n a Fellow of the American Bar Foundation and a Director of the\n American Bankruptcy Institute. His fraternal organization\n affiliations include Phi Beta Kappa, Tau Kappa Alpha, Omicron\n Delta Kappa and Phi Gamma Delta."],"prefercite_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eM. Caldwell Butler Papers, 1945-2006, Ms 004,\n Lewis F. Powell, Jr. Archives, Washington and Lee\n University School of Law, Lexington, VA\u003c/p\u003e"],"prefercite_tesim":["M. Caldwell Butler Papers, 1945-2006, Ms 004,\n Lewis F. Powell, Jr. Archives, Washington and Lee\n University School of Law, Lexington, VA"],"scopecontent_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThe \n M(anley)Caldwell Butler\n Papers consist of approximately 96 cu. ft. of materials from 1925-2006. Most of the papers cover the periods 1972-1982 and 1995-1997. The papers are divided\n into seventeen series: June Nolde Butler papers; correspondence and subject files; military service; appointment calendars; campaigns; scrapbooks, clippings and photos; speeches; newsletters, press\n releases, radio reports and weekly reports; voting record;\n constituency correspondence; confirmation of Gerald R. Ford as\n Vice President; impeachment of President\n Richard M. Nixon; Bankruptcy Reform Act of 1978;\n Legal Services Corporation; re-authorization of the Department of Justice\n for the Fiscal Year 1982; Voting Rights Act extension; the National Bankruptcy Review\n Commission, 1995-1997; and Artifacts, 1944-1998. With the exceptions of the first six series and National\n Bankruptcy Review Commission materials, these papers were\n generated during Butler's terms as U. S. Representative for\n the 6th Congressional District of Virginia, 1972 -1982 (93rd\n Congress - 97th Congress).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe refinement levels of processing are mixed. The gradual donation of materials over a period \n of 40 years is chiefly the cause. The Nixon Impeachment and Bankruptcy Reform Act of 1978 materials \n are mostly described down to the folder level. The National Bankruptcy Review Commission materials arrived largely self-arranged. \n Most other areas of the colleciton, however, are largely unprocessed beyond being sorted into tentative series.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis is particularly true of additions made in 2018 through the estate of Butler's son, James. This has resulted in a temporary \n box renumbering in boxes 1-7. There is also a box of artifacts added at the end of all of the papers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBiographical materials,general correspondence, correspondence with parents and siblings,Letters, \n invitations, menus, calendars, subject files, photos, clippings, artifacts, photos scrapbook (1933-1950)\n and correspondence (1947-1950) with her future husband, M Caldwell Butler\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNixon Impeachment historical studies; Correspondence re publication of book, Stonewall Jim;\n GOP Gala, 2001; certificates of award and merit; records of naval service; education records \n and related materials.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSubjects include: United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit; \n National Bankruptcy Review Commission; Sarah Butler Memorial; Sam Garrison Bar Discipline; \n Bankruptcy Law; Watergate/Impeachment; Susan Aheron; Butler for Governor; Newspaper Items; \n Legal Services Corporation; The Miller Center; and Virginia Cares.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence, subject files, surveys, election returns, and memorabilia\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIn addition to campaign and general coverage, these scrapbooks treat: editorials mentioning Butler; economic conferences; farm conferences; HUD and FMHA conferences; Lynchburg Weather Station; minority business conferences.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMost of these appear to have been kept by his Congressional Office Staff. They document his day-to-day official activities.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThese also document his official activities.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe recordings range from appearances on \u003ctitle render=\"italic\"\u003eFace the Nation \u003c/title\u003e to local forums.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere is a variety of publications on a variety of mainly political topics. forms of materials include trade books, government documents, brochures, and magazinies. \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eSpeeches\u003c/emph\u003e(1964-2001; bulk 1973-1982) are also\n arranged chronologically. The audience, occasion, and\n location are usually noted. From January 1976 onward, a\n topical index is present in addition to the\n chronological listings that are available for all of the\n years. Some nine speeches are missing from the original\n inventory, while others not on that listing were found\n during processing and added to the finding aid.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eNewsletters\u003c/emph\u003e(1973-1981)were\n generated by Congressman Butler's staff to keep citizens\n of the Sixth District of Virginia informed on issues\n before the House, and on the activities of his office.\n The newsletters(N:) are arranged chronologically with an\n alphabetical reference index that has been updated\n through October 1, 1982. This index includes references\n to Radio Reports(RR#) and Weekly Reports(WR#). News\n (Press) Releases (1972-1982), Radio Reports (1973-1978),\n and Weekly Reports (1979-1982) are arranged\n chronologically and their indices provide brief\n summaries of the topics discussed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe \n \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eMembers Personal Voting\n Record\u003c/emph\u003ecovers the period 1973-1982 (93rd Congress\n First Session to the 97th Congress Second Session). Each\n Congress' voting record is divided into two sessions. A\n cumulative record for each Congress is also present.\n Included here are: roll numbers, dates, daily record\n page number, description, and members response. Each\n record contains a roll call subject guide and an index\n to the voting record. Although Butler began his\n congressional term with the 92nd Congress, there is no\n personal voting record for this time.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe \n \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eConstituency Correspondence\u003c/emph\u003eis\n almost exclusively from the period of the impeachment of\n Richard M. Nixon. The letters are divided into those\n favoring impeachment and those opposed to this action.\n There is also correspondence in reaction to the pardon\n of Nixon by President Gerald R. Ford.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMaterials concerning the \n \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eConfirmation of Gerald R. Ford as\n Vice President\u003c/emph\u003einclude: correspondence, memoranda,\n a briefing book, and transcriptions of testimony and\n proceedings during the hearings.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFord medical and financial records are closed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCongressman Butler sat on the House Judiciary\n committee that investigated and voted on the \n \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eimpeachment of President Richard M.\n Nixon\u003c/emph\u003e. The impeachment materials are 15 cu. ft.\n in extent and include: narratives about the Watergate\n break-in and related events, and about the bombing of\n Cambodia; interview transcripts and recorded testimony\n of persons involved in Watergate activities; general\n impeachment inquiry materials(committee notebooks,\n personal notes, etc.); reports on White House\n Surveillance activities; Department of Justice/ITT\n Litigation; Milk Producers Cooperatives investigations;\n papers re the Judiciary Committee's \"Fragile Coalition\";\n general correspondence and memoranda; and printed\n materials. (See also, the series of constituent\n correspondence that precedes the impeachment materials.\n Butler kept an audio diary during the impeachment\n process, and these cassette recordings are included\n here, as are his written notes from this time. Also\n present are partial transcripts of an oral history\n project on the \"Fragile Coalition\" conducted in\n 1974.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eUnrevised and unedited\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe \n \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003ePrinted Materials\u003c/emph\u003eare primarily government documents\n from the period of the impeachment of\n Richard M. Nixon. Below is an enumeration of the titles present from donor gifts 1980-1983. Titles from additions, 1985-2015 are present in these boxes, but not yet listed below.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBook I: December 2, 1971 - June 17,\n 1972\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBook I: June 19, 1972 - March 1, 1974 \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eBook II: June 17, 1972 - February 9,\n 1973\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBook III: June 20, 1972 - March 22,\n 1973\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBook IV: March 22, 1973 - April 30,\n 1973\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAppendix: Political Matters Memoranda \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eI: Presidential Statements \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eII: Papers in Criminal Cases \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eIII: Supplementary Documents \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eIV: Political Matters memoranda\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eExecutive Session Hearings Before the Select\n Committee on Presidential Campaign Activities\n of the United States Senate, November\n 13,14,15,16, December 4, 11, 1973.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere are three distinct audio recording projects documenting the days of the House\n Judiciary Committee Nixon Impeachment proceedings in July 1974. The first was part audio\n diary and part interviews involving Rep. Butler and reporter Wayne Woodlief. This project \n ran from May to early August 1974, with most of the recordings being from July. The recordings\n of most of these sessions -- some are missing; it is thought to be few, but there is no definitive \n way of knowing -- are in audio cassettes housed in box 55. There is a user set of CDs of these \n recordings in that box, and there are digital audio files of these tapes housed in Box on the Washington and Lee University \n network. There is also an incomplete set of transcripts for this project in box 54. Woodlief \n spoke of trying to produce a book at least partially based on these tapes. He sent such a proposal\n to Butler on July 10, 1975. The only printed product to emerge from these recordings, however, was \n an extensive article in the July 27, 1975 edition of The \u003ctitle render=\"italic\"\u003eRoanoke Times\u003c/title\u003e, \n also published in the \u003ctitle render=\"italic\"\u003eVirginian-Pilot\u003c/title\u003e of the same date.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe second recordings were much more limited in scope. On July 31, 1974, Butler sat down with\n Thomas Mooney, a Judiciary Committee attorney, to record on audiotape, their recollection of \n events as they unfolded on July 22-24. Their primary aim seems to have been capturing the \n drafting of the articles of impeachment. There are transcripts -- again just how complete cannot\n be determined, but not any recordings themselves.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe third project was the most ambitious. It was an attempt to record the Nixon Impeachment memories\n of all of the members of the so-called Fragile Coalition, those Democratic and Republican members of \n the House Judiciary Committee who held the swing votes on impeachment. They came together to draft \n articles of impeachment on which they could all vote \"yes\".\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe organizers of this project were Thomas Mooney Sr., Stephen Lynch, and Father Donald Shea, longtime chair\n of the history department at St. Joseph College (Indiana). Mooney was a St. Joseph College alumnus and friend\n of Father Shea. The project was funded by St. Joseph College, and other private funds were solicited, as well.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe project had two parts. In the first part, the organizers interviewed members of the coalition \n individually in their Washington Congressional offices in June 1975. This was followed by a retreat on Hilton Head \n Island, SC in July 1975. Extensive aide memoire printed materials were gathered and given to each member of the coalition \n in advance. The recordings made there were in panel format only, with all of the Fragile Coalition members present.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere are no recordings from this project in the Butler papers. There are transcripts -- once again, there is no\n telling how complete -- from both the individual interviews and the Hilton Head panels. There is a third category of\n transcripts, those with interviewees' corrections handwritten on transcriptions. These corrected copies are from both the \n individual and group sessions. Some of these transcripts were sent to Butler and the Powell Archives by the University\n of Maine's Fogler Library which houses the papers of Fragile Coalition member William Cohen.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eUnlike the printed materials that are found throughout the Impeachment series, these books and magazines\n are not government documents. There are copies of \u003ctitle render=\"italic\"\u003eTime, Newsweek,\u003c/title\u003e and\n \u003ctitle render=\"italic\"\u003eLife\u003c/title\u003e magazines from the time of the impeachment. There are also books and \n a college thesis giving retropective views on that period.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe \n \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eBankruptcy Materials\u003c/emph\u003eare 18\n cu. ft. of papers documenting Butler's work in the\n drafting and passage of the legislation popularly known\n as the Bankruptcy Reform Act of 1978. Forms of materials\n present include: minutes of the Bankruptcy Commission,\n markup books on various versions of bankruptcy bills,\n memoranda, briefing materials, meetings transcripts,\n hearing transcripts, conference materials, Congressional\n Record Notebooks, audio tapes of markup sessions, and\n supplemental information on bankruptcy legislation with\n relevant testimony.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis material was arranged by Butler's office into\n three major components: 1)general materials in\n ring-binder notebooks to which Roman Numerals were\n assigned; 2)\"Supplemental Materials: ... \" filed in\n \"books\" numbered 1-45; and, 3) Ken Klee's research\n materials. The arrangement of these materials is not\n easily grasped, but the donor has provided a \"road map.\"\n A Butler document from around 1980 entitled \"The\n Narrative History of the Bankruptcy Act Revision\"\n provides a concise, informal legislative history of the\n Bankruptcy Reform Act of 1978 from Mr. Butler's\n perspective. It also discusses the creation and\n arrangement of these records and includes references to\n the Roman numeral numbering scheme employed by Butler's\n staff. This narrative is found in the first folder of\n the first box of bankruptcy materials(box 57). A second\n helpful narrative entitled \"The Establishment of the\n Commission\" states the reasons that impelled Congress to\n establish the Commission on Bankruptcy in June of 1970.\n This can be found in box 71 in the folder titled \"Mun.\n 5.\" Ken Klee's article on bankruptcy legislative (box\n 72) may also be of use in understanding events leading\n up to the 1978 act. The article is entitled, \"Congress\n and the Bankruptcy Act of 1976,\" and appeared in volume\n 61 of the \n \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eAmerican Bar Association\n Journal\u003c/title\u003e(October, 1975).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe \n \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003egeneral materials\u003c/emph\u003ehave been\n removed from the ring-binders, but the folders that now\n hold them are labeled with the Roman numeral\n corresponding to the binder in which they were formerly\n housed. Everything from 1971 research materials to the\n printed public law version of the 1978 Bankruptcy Reform\n Act can be found here. Books and pamphlets printed by\n the Government Office of Printing are found in Roman\n numeral sections I and III-IX. Included here are the\n Commission on Bankruptcy Laws Report, H.R. 10792, H.R.\n 16643, Hearings on H.R. 31 and H.R. 32, Hearings on S.\n 235, S. 236, H.R. 6, and oversized side-by-side\n comparisons of VI (H) and XIII of H.R. 31 and 32 and S.\n 2266 and H.R. 8200 (stored in box 75).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAll of the \"Supplemental Legislation and Testimony\"\n is contained in 45 \"books\" and includes correspondence,\n notes and paste-ups of various sections of proposed\n versions of the bankruptcy bill. Section \"F,\" of XLIII\n \"Conference Materials\" (Box 61, Folder 9 from the\n general materials described above) contains the index to\n the 45 books. Much of the contents are reiterations of\n information from the \"Roman numeral\" notebooks arranged\n for quick reference. Testimony is arranged by bill\n section.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe Ken Klee's bankruptcy files were created while\n Klee served as associate counsel for the Subcommittee on\n Civil and Constitutional Rights of the House Committee\n on the Judiciary. They are 4 cu. ft. in extent and are\n divided into three sections: uniform bankruptcy file,\n municipal bankruptcy file (MUN), and bankruptcy act\n subject files. An index to Klee's files is contained in\n Section \"E\" of XLIII \"Conference Materials\" (Box 61,\n Folder 9). The Uniform Bankruptcy Files are arranged\n numerically beginning with the number 102 and contain\n statements, testimonies, correspondence, memoranda,\n drafts and other relevant materials regarding the\n proposed bankruptcy rules. The Municipal Bankruptcy File\n is arranged numerically. The files are designated MUN\n with a corresponding number. These files also contain\n drafts, testimonies, statements, memorandums and\n reports. Klee's Bankruptcy Subject Files are arranged\n alphabetically. Included here (under 'g') is general\n correspondence from 1973-1978.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e#I - LII\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e(A) \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eMarch 19-June 14, 1971 \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eSeptember 15,16-November 15, 1971 \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eDecember 13-January 30,31, 1972 \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eApril 10-May 1, 1972 \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eJune 12-September 11-12, 1972 \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eOctober 9-10, 1972 \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eNovember 13-14, 1972 \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eDecember 4-5, 1972\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e(B) \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eDecember 4-5, 1972 \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eJanuary 15-16, 1973 \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eFebruary 22-24, 1973 \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eMarch 15-17, 1973 \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eApril 12-14, 1973 \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eJune 7-12, 1973\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e(A) \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e(B) \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e(C)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e(A) \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e(B) \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e(C)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e(E) \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e(F) \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e(G) \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e(H) -- Side-by-Side of H.R. 31 and H.R.\n 32 (2 copies) September 2, 1975. In oversize\n carton 49.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e(A) \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e(B) \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e(C)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e(A) \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e(B)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e(A)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e(B) \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e(C)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e(A) \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e(B)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSource 13 260;263 \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eSource 14 322-323 \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eSource 15 336 \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eSource 20 412-415 \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eSource 23A 502 \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eSource 50 549;554-555 \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eSource 30 587-588 \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eSource 31 595-596 \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eSource 33 612-613\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBooks for S. 2266 and H.R. 8200; H.R. 31 and H.R. 32\n \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePublished by San Diego Urban League,\n Inc.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEnclosed copy of RRRA and RRRRA\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eLegal Services Corporation\n Act\u003c/emph\u003epapers consist of one cu. ft. of materials\n concerning the authorization of funding for this entity\n for the fiscal years 1982-1984. Included here are: the\n authorization bill, itself; correspondence; \"discussion\n papers\"; press clippings; transcripts of testimony and\n hearing proceedings. (The one file of material about the\n re-authorization of the Department of Justice follows\n the Legal Services papers.)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe \n \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eVoting Rights Act Extension\u003c/emph\u003eseries comprises Butler's legislative papers as a member of the House Judiciary Committee during the consideration of the extension of this Act.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe \n \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eNational Bankruptcy Review\n Commission\u003c/emph\u003epapers are from Butler's service as a\n member of that body from 1995-1997. These 16 cu. ft. of\n materials include: correspondence; meeting minutes;\n memoranda and documents distributed to commission\n members; and the report of the commission and drafts of\n that report.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBox 91 includes audio cassette of\n \"discharge/reaffirmation hearing,\" 1997.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBicentennial of American Revolution Flag; Bicentennial Medal, 1976; American College of Bankruptcy Commendation plaque, March 14, 1998.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNavy hat, brass buttons, insignia, pins and dog tags.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eContents: 24\"x36 inch photo of Butler, c. 1961; House Concurrent Resolution 672, July 1, 1976; Washington and Lee University Honorary Doctor of Laws Diploma, June 1, 1978; Birthday card from staff, June 2, 1973; National Small Business Association Certificate of Recognition, October 1978; certificate, Governor George Allen (Virgini) naming Butler to Governor's Advisory Council on Self-Determination and Federalism, November 14, 1994.\u003c/p\u003e"],"scopecontent_heading_ssm":["Scope and Content Information","Scope and Content\n "],"scopecontent_tesim":["The \n M(anley)Caldwell Butler\n Papers consist of approximately 96 cu. ft. of materials from 1925-2006. Most of the papers cover the periods 1972-1982 and 1995-1997. The papers are divided\n into seventeen series: June Nolde Butler papers; correspondence and subject files; military service; appointment calendars; campaigns; scrapbooks, clippings and photos; speeches; newsletters, press\n releases, radio reports and weekly reports; voting record;\n constituency correspondence; confirmation of Gerald R. Ford as\n Vice President; impeachment of President\n Richard M. Nixon; Bankruptcy Reform Act of 1978;\n Legal Services Corporation; re-authorization of the Department of Justice\n for the Fiscal Year 1982; Voting Rights Act extension; the National Bankruptcy Review\n Commission, 1995-1997; and Artifacts, 1944-1998. With the exceptions of the first six series and National\n Bankruptcy Review Commission materials, these papers were\n generated during Butler's terms as U. S. Representative for\n the 6th Congressional District of Virginia, 1972 -1982 (93rd\n Congress - 97th Congress).","The refinement levels of processing are mixed. The gradual donation of materials over a period \n of 40 years is chiefly the cause. The Nixon Impeachment and Bankruptcy Reform Act of 1978 materials \n are mostly described down to the folder level. The National Bankruptcy Review Commission materials arrived largely self-arranged. \n Most other areas of the colleciton, however, are largely unprocessed beyond being sorted into tentative series.","This is particularly true of additions made in 2018 through the estate of Butler's son, James. This has resulted in a temporary \n box renumbering in boxes 1-7. There is also a box of artifacts added at the end of all of the papers.","Biographical materials,general correspondence, correspondence with parents and siblings,Letters, \n invitations, menus, calendars, subject files, photos, clippings, artifacts, photos scrapbook (1933-1950)\n and correspondence (1947-1950) with her future husband, M Caldwell Butler","Nixon Impeachment historical studies; Correspondence re publication of book, Stonewall Jim;\n GOP Gala, 2001; certificates of award and merit; records of naval service; education records \n and related materials.","Subjects include: United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit; \n National Bankruptcy Review Commission; Sarah Butler Memorial; Sam Garrison Bar Discipline; \n Bankruptcy Law; Watergate/Impeachment; Susan Aheron; Butler for Governor; Newspaper Items; \n Legal Services Corporation; The Miller Center; and Virginia Cares.","Correspondence, subject files, surveys, election returns, and memorabilia","In addition to campaign and general coverage, these scrapbooks treat: editorials mentioning Butler; economic conferences; farm conferences; HUD and FMHA conferences; Lynchburg Weather Station; minority business conferences.","Most of these appear to have been kept by his Congressional Office Staff. They document his day-to-day official activities.","These also document his official activities.","The recordings range from appearances on Face the Nation to local forums.","There is a variety of publications on a variety of mainly political topics. forms of materials include trade books, government documents, brochures, and magazinies. ","Speeches (1964-2001; bulk 1973-1982) are also\n arranged chronologically. The audience, occasion, and\n location are usually noted. From January 1976 onward, a\n topical index is present in addition to the\n chronological listings that are available for all of the\n years. Some nine speeches are missing from the original\n inventory, while others not on that listing were found\n during processing and added to the finding aid.","Newsletters (1973-1981)were\n generated by Congressman Butler's staff to keep citizens\n of the Sixth District of Virginia informed on issues\n before the House, and on the activities of his office.\n The newsletters(N:) are arranged chronologically with an\n alphabetical reference index that has been updated\n through October 1, 1982. This index includes references\n to Radio Reports(RR#) and Weekly Reports(WR#). News\n (Press) Releases (1972-1982), Radio Reports (1973-1978),\n and Weekly Reports (1979-1982) are arranged\n chronologically and their indices provide brief\n summaries of the topics discussed.","The \n Members Personal Voting\n Record covers the period 1973-1982 (93rd Congress\n First Session to the 97th Congress Second Session). Each\n Congress' voting record is divided into two sessions. A\n cumulative record for each Congress is also present.\n Included here are: roll numbers, dates, daily record\n page number, description, and members response. Each\n record contains a roll call subject guide and an index\n to the voting record. Although Butler began his\n congressional term with the 92nd Congress, there is no\n personal voting record for this time.","The \n Constituency Correspondence is\n almost exclusively from the period of the impeachment of\n Richard M. Nixon. The letters are divided into those\n favoring impeachment and those opposed to this action.\n There is also correspondence in reaction to the pardon\n of Nixon by President Gerald R. Ford.","Materials concerning the \n Confirmation of Gerald R. Ford as\n Vice President include: correspondence, memoranda,\n a briefing book, and transcriptions of testimony and\n proceedings during the hearings.","Ford medical and financial records are closed.","Congressman Butler sat on the House Judiciary\n committee that investigated and voted on the \n impeachment of President Richard M.\n Nixon . The impeachment materials are 15 cu. ft.\n in extent and include: narratives about the Watergate\n break-in and related events, and about the bombing of\n Cambodia; interview transcripts and recorded testimony\n of persons involved in Watergate activities; general\n impeachment inquiry materials(committee notebooks,\n personal notes, etc.); reports on White House\n Surveillance activities; Department of Justice/ITT\n Litigation; Milk Producers Cooperatives investigations;\n papers re the Judiciary Committee's \"Fragile Coalition\";\n general correspondence and memoranda; and printed\n materials. (See also, the series of constituent\n correspondence that precedes the impeachment materials.\n Butler kept an audio diary during the impeachment\n process, and these cassette recordings are included\n here, as are his written notes from this time. Also\n present are partial transcripts of an oral history\n project on the \"Fragile Coalition\" conducted in\n 1974.","Unrevised and unedited","The \n Printed Materials are primarily government documents\n from the period of the impeachment of\n Richard M. Nixon. Below is an enumeration of the titles present from donor gifts 1980-1983. Titles from additions, 1985-2015 are present in these boxes, but not yet listed below.","Book I: December 2, 1971 - June 17,\n 1972","Book I: June 19, 1972 - March 1, 1974 \n Book II: June 17, 1972 - February 9,\n 1973","Book III: June 20, 1972 - March 22,\n 1973","Book IV: March 22, 1973 - April 30,\n 1973","Appendix: Political Matters Memoranda \n I: Presidential Statements \n II: Papers in Criminal Cases \n III: Supplementary Documents \n IV: Political Matters memoranda","Executive Session Hearings Before the Select\n Committee on Presidential Campaign Activities\n of the United States Senate, November\n 13,14,15,16, December 4, 11, 1973.","There are three distinct audio recording projects documenting the days of the House\n Judiciary Committee Nixon Impeachment proceedings in July 1974. The first was part audio\n diary and part interviews involving Rep. Butler and reporter Wayne Woodlief. This project \n ran from May to early August 1974, with most of the recordings being from July. The recordings\n of most of these sessions -- some are missing; it is thought to be few, but there is no definitive \n way of knowing -- are in audio cassettes housed in box 55. There is a user set of CDs of these \n recordings in that box, and there are digital audio files of these tapes housed in Box on the Washington and Lee University \n network. There is also an incomplete set of transcripts for this project in box 54. Woodlief \n spoke of trying to produce a book at least partially based on these tapes. He sent such a proposal\n to Butler on July 10, 1975. The only printed product to emerge from these recordings, however, was \n an extensive article in the July 27, 1975 edition of The Roanoke Times , \n also published in the Virginian-Pilot of the same date.","The second recordings were much more limited in scope. On July 31, 1974, Butler sat down with\n Thomas Mooney, a Judiciary Committee attorney, to record on audiotape, their recollection of \n events as they unfolded on July 22-24. Their primary aim seems to have been capturing the \n drafting of the articles of impeachment. There are transcripts -- again just how complete cannot\n be determined, but not any recordings themselves.","The third project was the most ambitious. It was an attempt to record the Nixon Impeachment memories\n of all of the members of the so-called Fragile Coalition, those Democratic and Republican members of \n the House Judiciary Committee who held the swing votes on impeachment. They came together to draft \n articles of impeachment on which they could all vote \"yes\".","The organizers of this project were Thomas Mooney Sr., Stephen Lynch, and Father Donald Shea, longtime chair\n of the history department at St. Joseph College (Indiana). Mooney was a St. Joseph College alumnus and friend\n of Father Shea. The project was funded by St. Joseph College, and other private funds were solicited, as well.","The project had two parts. In the first part, the organizers interviewed members of the coalition \n individually in their Washington Congressional offices in June 1975. This was followed by a retreat on Hilton Head \n Island, SC in July 1975. Extensive aide memoire printed materials were gathered and given to each member of the coalition \n in advance. The recordings made there were in panel format only, with all of the Fragile Coalition members present.","There are no recordings from this project in the Butler papers. There are transcripts -- once again, there is no\n telling how complete -- from both the individual interviews and the Hilton Head panels. There is a third category of\n transcripts, those with interviewees' corrections handwritten on transcriptions. These corrected copies are from both the \n individual and group sessions. Some of these transcripts were sent to Butler and the Powell Archives by the University\n of Maine's Fogler Library which houses the papers of Fragile Coalition member William Cohen.","Unlike the printed materials that are found throughout the Impeachment series, these books and magazines\n are not government documents. There are copies of Time, Newsweek, and\n Life magazines from the time of the impeachment. There are also books and \n a college thesis giving retropective views on that period.","The \n Bankruptcy Materials are 18\n cu. ft. of papers documenting Butler's work in the\n drafting and passage of the legislation popularly known\n as the Bankruptcy Reform Act of 1978. Forms of materials\n present include: minutes of the Bankruptcy Commission,\n markup books on various versions of bankruptcy bills,\n memoranda, briefing materials, meetings transcripts,\n hearing transcripts, conference materials, Congressional\n Record Notebooks, audio tapes of markup sessions, and\n supplemental information on bankruptcy legislation with\n relevant testimony.","This material was arranged by Butler's office into\n three major components: 1)general materials in\n ring-binder notebooks to which Roman Numerals were\n assigned; 2)\"Supplemental Materials: ... \" filed in\n \"books\" numbered 1-45; and, 3) Ken Klee's research\n materials. The arrangement of these materials is not\n easily grasped, but the donor has provided a \"road map.\"\n A Butler document from around 1980 entitled \"The\n Narrative History of the Bankruptcy Act Revision\"\n provides a concise, informal legislative history of the\n Bankruptcy Reform Act of 1978 from Mr. Butler's\n perspective. It also discusses the creation and\n arrangement of these records and includes references to\n the Roman numeral numbering scheme employed by Butler's\n staff. This narrative is found in the first folder of\n the first box of bankruptcy materials(box 57). A second\n helpful narrative entitled \"The Establishment of the\n Commission\" states the reasons that impelled Congress to\n establish the Commission on Bankruptcy in June of 1970.\n This can be found in box 71 in the folder titled \"Mun.\n 5.\" Ken Klee's article on bankruptcy legislative (box\n 72) may also be of use in understanding events leading\n up to the 1978 act. The article is entitled, \"Congress\n and the Bankruptcy Act of 1976,\" and appeared in volume\n 61 of the \n American Bar Association\n Journal (October, 1975).","The \n general materials have been\n removed from the ring-binders, but the folders that now\n hold them are labeled with the Roman numeral\n corresponding to the binder in which they were formerly\n housed. Everything from 1971 research materials to the\n printed public law version of the 1978 Bankruptcy Reform\n Act can be found here. Books and pamphlets printed by\n the Government Office of Printing are found in Roman\n numeral sections I and III-IX. Included here are the\n Commission on Bankruptcy Laws Report, H.R. 10792, H.R.\n 16643, Hearings on H.R. 31 and H.R. 32, Hearings on S.\n 235, S. 236, H.R. 6, and oversized side-by-side\n comparisons of VI (H) and XIII of H.R. 31 and 32 and S.\n 2266 and H.R. 8200 (stored in box 75).","All of the \"Supplemental Legislation and Testimony\"\n is contained in 45 \"books\" and includes correspondence,\n notes and paste-ups of various sections of proposed\n versions of the bankruptcy bill. Section \"F,\" of XLIII\n \"Conference Materials\" (Box 61, Folder 9 from the\n general materials described above) contains the index to\n the 45 books. Much of the contents are reiterations of\n information from the \"Roman numeral\" notebooks arranged\n for quick reference. Testimony is arranged by bill\n section.","The Ken Klee's bankruptcy files were created while\n Klee served as associate counsel for the Subcommittee on\n Civil and Constitutional Rights of the House Committee\n on the Judiciary. They are 4 cu. ft. in extent and are\n divided into three sections: uniform bankruptcy file,\n municipal bankruptcy file (MUN), and bankruptcy act\n subject files. An index to Klee's files is contained in\n Section \"E\" of XLIII \"Conference Materials\" (Box 61,\n Folder 9). The Uniform Bankruptcy Files are arranged\n numerically beginning with the number 102 and contain\n statements, testimonies, correspondence, memoranda,\n drafts and other relevant materials regarding the\n proposed bankruptcy rules. The Municipal Bankruptcy File\n is arranged numerically. The files are designated MUN\n with a corresponding number. These files also contain\n drafts, testimonies, statements, memorandums and\n reports. Klee's Bankruptcy Subject Files are arranged\n alphabetically. Included here (under 'g') is general\n correspondence from 1973-1978.","#I - LII","(A) \n March 19-June 14, 1971 \n September 15,16-November 15, 1971 \n December 13-January 30,31, 1972 \n April 10-May 1, 1972 \n June 12-September 11-12, 1972 \n October 9-10, 1972 \n November 13-14, 1972 \n December 4-5, 1972","(B) \n December 4-5, 1972 \n January 15-16, 1973 \n February 22-24, 1973 \n March 15-17, 1973 \n April 12-14, 1973 \n June 7-12, 1973","(A) \n (B) \n (C)","(A) \n (B) \n (C)","(E) \n (F) \n (G) \n (H) -- Side-by-Side of H.R. 31 and H.R.\n 32 (2 copies) September 2, 1975. In oversize\n carton 49.","(A) \n (B) \n (C)","(A) \n (B)","(A)","(B) \n (C)","(A) \n (B)","Source 13 260;263 \n Source 14 322-323 \n Source 15 336 \n Source 20 412-415 \n Source 23A 502 \n Source 50 549;554-555 \n Source 30 587-588 \n Source 31 595-596 \n Source 33 612-613","Books for S. 2266 and H.R. 8200; H.R. 31 and H.R. 32\n ","Published by San Diego Urban League,\n Inc.","Enclosed copy of RRRA and RRRRA","Legal Services Corporation\n Act papers consist of one cu. ft. of materials\n concerning the authorization of funding for this entity\n for the fiscal years 1982-1984. Included here are: the\n authorization bill, itself; correspondence; \"discussion\n papers\"; press clippings; transcripts of testimony and\n hearing proceedings. (The one file of material about the\n re-authorization of the Department of Justice follows\n the Legal Services papers.)","The \n Voting Rights Act Extension series comprises Butler's legislative papers as a member of the House Judiciary Committee during the consideration of the extension of this Act.","The \n National Bankruptcy Review\n Commission papers are from Butler's service as a\n member of that body from 1995-1997. These 16 cu. ft. of\n materials include: correspondence; meeting minutes;\n memoranda and documents distributed to commission\n members; and the report of the commission and drafts of\n that report.","Box 91 includes audio cassette of\n \"discharge/reaffirmation hearing,\" 1997.","Bicentennial of American Revolution Flag; Bicentennial Medal, 1976; American College of Bankruptcy Commendation plaque, March 14, 1998.","Navy hat, brass buttons, insignia, pins and dog tags.","Contents: 24\"x36 inch photo of Butler, c. 1961; House Concurrent Resolution 672, July 1, 1976; Washington and Lee University Honorary Doctor of Laws Diploma, June 1, 1978; Birthday card from staff, June 2, 1973; National Small Business Association Certificate of Recognition, October 1978; certificate, Governor George Allen (Virgini) naming Butler to Governor's Advisory Council on Self-Determination and Federalism, November 14, 1994."],"userestrict_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThere are no restrictions.\u003c/p\u003e"],"userestrict_heading_ssm":["Use Restrictions"],"userestrict_tesim":["There are no restrictions."],"language_ssim":["English"],"total_component_count_is":567,"online_item_count_is":0,"component_level_isim":[0],"sort_isi":0,"timestamp":"2026-05-20T15:09:15.002Z"}]}},"label":"Breadcrumbs"}}},"links":{"self":"https://arvasarchive.org/catalog/vilxwl_vilxwl00003_c11_c02"}},{"id":"vilxwl_vilxwl00003_c16_c02_c01_c01","type":"Item","attributes":{"title":"102: Preliminary Draft of\n proposed Bankruptcy Rules and Official Forms\n under Chapter XII of the Bankruptcy Act \n July 1973","breadcrumbs":{"id":"https://arvasarchive.org/catalog/vilxwl_vilxwl00003_c16_c02_c01_c01#breadcrumbs","type":"document_value","attributes":{"value":{"ref_ssi":"vilxwl_vilxwl00003_c16_c02_c01_c01","ref_ssm":["vilxwl_vilxwl00003_c16_c02_c01_c01"],"id":"vilxwl_vilxwl00003_c16_c02_c01_c01","ead_ssi":"vilxwl_vilxwl00003","_root_":"vilxwl_vilxwl00003","_nest_parent_":"vilxwl_vilxwl00003_c16_c02_c01","parent_ssi":"vilxwl_vilxwl00003_c16_c02_c01","parent_ssim":["vilxwl_vilxwl00003","vilxwl_vilxwl00003_c16","vilxwl_vilxwl00003_c16_c02","vilxwl_vilxwl00003_c16_c02_c01"],"parent_ids_ssim":["vilxwl_vilxwl00003","vilxwl_vilxwl00003_c16","vilxwl_vilxwl00003_c16_c02","vilxwl_vilxwl00003_c16_c02_c01"],"parent_unittitles_ssm":["M. 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Caldwell Butler Papers \n 1945-2006","This collection\n consists of ca. 93 cubic feet of materials.","The Ford medical and financial records are closed.","Manley Caldwell Butler was born June 2, 1925 in Roanoke,\n Virginia, where he lived most of his life until his death on \n July 28, 2014. Following service in the Navy in World War II,\n he received his A.B. from the University of Richmond\n in 1948 and his J.D. from the University of Virginia Law\n School in 1950. Butler married June Nolde in 1950. This union\n produced four sons: Manley, Henry, James and Marshall.","Butler served as the City of Roanoke Representative in\n 1960-1961. In 1962 he was elected to the Virginia House of\n Delegates. He was elected Minority Leader in 1966, a position\n he held until 1972 when he was elected to the 92nd U.S.\n Congress from the 6th District of Virginia. Butler served the\n 6th District for a decade. While serving on the Judiciary\n Committee, Butler participated in the impeachment action\n against President Richard M. Nixon during the summer of 1974.\n In the aftermath of Nixon's resignation, Butler was involved\n in the confirmation hearings of Gerald R. Ford and Nelson\n Rockefeller to serve as President and Vice President\n respectively. Butler was a principal architect of the\n Bankruptcy Reform Act of 1978. He was also a member of the\n Committee on Government Operations. In retirement, Butler\n served on the National Bankruptcy Review Commission in the\n years 1995-1997. ","A partner in the firm of Woods, Rogers \u0026 Hazelgrove of\n Roanoke, Virginia from 1983-1998, Mr. Butler held memberships\n in the American Bar Association, the Virginia State Bar, the\n Roanoke Bar Association, the American College of Bankruptcy,\n the Raven Society, the Order of the Coif, and the Board of\n Directors of Dominion Bank Shares Corp of Roanoke. He was also\n a Fellow of the American Bar Foundation and a Director of the\n American Bankruptcy Institute. His fraternal organization\n affiliations include Phi Beta Kappa, Tau Kappa Alpha, Omicron\n Delta Kappa and Phi Gamma Delta.","The \n M(anley)Caldwell Butler\n Papers consist of approximately 96 cu. ft. of materials from 1925-2006. Most of the papers cover the periods 1972-1982 and 1995-1997. The papers are divided\n into seventeen series: June Nolde Butler papers; correspondence and subject files; military service; appointment calendars; campaigns; scrapbooks, clippings and photos; speeches; newsletters, press\n releases, radio reports and weekly reports; voting record;\n constituency correspondence; confirmation of Gerald R. Ford as\n Vice President; impeachment of President\n Richard M. Nixon; Bankruptcy Reform Act of 1978;\n Legal Services Corporation; re-authorization of the Department of Justice\n for the Fiscal Year 1982; Voting Rights Act extension; the National Bankruptcy Review\n Commission, 1995-1997; and Artifacts, 1944-1998. With the exceptions of the first six series and National\n Bankruptcy Review Commission materials, these papers were\n generated during Butler's terms as U. S. Representative for\n the 6th Congressional District of Virginia, 1972 -1982 (93rd\n Congress - 97th Congress).","The refinement levels of processing are mixed. The gradual donation of materials over a period \n of 40 years is chiefly the cause. The Nixon Impeachment and Bankruptcy Reform Act of 1978 materials \n are mostly described down to the folder level. The National Bankruptcy Review Commission materials arrived largely self-arranged. \n Most other areas of the colleciton, however, are largely unprocessed beyond being sorted into tentative series.","This is particularly true of additions made in 2018 through the estate of Butler's son, James. This has resulted in a temporary \n box renumbering in boxes 1-7. There is also a box of artifacts added at the end of all of the papers.","Biographical materials,general correspondence, correspondence with parents and siblings,Letters, \n invitations, menus, calendars, subject files, photos, clippings, artifacts, photos scrapbook (1933-1950)\n and correspondence (1947-1950) with her future husband, M Caldwell Butler","Nixon Impeachment historical studies; Correspondence re publication of book, Stonewall Jim;\n GOP Gala, 2001; certificates of award and merit; records of naval service; education records \n and related materials.","Subjects include: United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit; \n National Bankruptcy Review Commission; Sarah Butler Memorial; Sam Garrison Bar Discipline; \n Bankruptcy Law; Watergate/Impeachment; Susan Aheron; Butler for Governor; Newspaper Items; \n Legal Services Corporation; The Miller Center; and Virginia Cares.","Correspondence, subject files, surveys, election returns, and memorabilia","In addition to campaign and general coverage, these scrapbooks treat: editorials mentioning Butler; economic conferences; farm conferences; HUD and FMHA conferences; Lynchburg Weather Station; minority business conferences.","Most of these appear to have been kept by his Congressional Office Staff. They document his day-to-day official activities.","These also document his official activities.","The recordings range from appearances on Face the Nation to local forums.","There is a variety of publications on a variety of mainly political topics. forms of materials include trade books, government documents, brochures, and magazinies. ","Speeches (1964-2001; bulk 1973-1982) are also\n arranged chronologically. The audience, occasion, and\n location are usually noted. From January 1976 onward, a\n topical index is present in addition to the\n chronological listings that are available for all of the\n years. Some nine speeches are missing from the original\n inventory, while others not on that listing were found\n during processing and added to the finding aid.","Newsletters (1973-1981)were\n generated by Congressman Butler's staff to keep citizens\n of the Sixth District of Virginia informed on issues\n before the House, and on the activities of his office.\n The newsletters(N:) are arranged chronologically with an\n alphabetical reference index that has been updated\n through October 1, 1982. This index includes references\n to Radio Reports(RR#) and Weekly Reports(WR#). News\n (Press) Releases (1972-1982), Radio Reports (1973-1978),\n and Weekly Reports (1979-1982) are arranged\n chronologically and their indices provide brief\n summaries of the topics discussed.","The \n Members Personal Voting\n Record covers the period 1973-1982 (93rd Congress\n First Session to the 97th Congress Second Session). Each\n Congress' voting record is divided into two sessions. A\n cumulative record for each Congress is also present.\n Included here are: roll numbers, dates, daily record\n page number, description, and members response. Each\n record contains a roll call subject guide and an index\n to the voting record. Although Butler began his\n congressional term with the 92nd Congress, there is no\n personal voting record for this time.","The \n Constituency Correspondence is\n almost exclusively from the period of the impeachment of\n Richard M. Nixon. The letters are divided into those\n favoring impeachment and those opposed to this action.\n There is also correspondence in reaction to the pardon\n of Nixon by President Gerald R. Ford.","Materials concerning the \n Confirmation of Gerald R. Ford as\n Vice President include: correspondence, memoranda,\n a briefing book, and transcriptions of testimony and\n proceedings during the hearings.","Ford medical and financial records are closed.","Congressman Butler sat on the House Judiciary\n committee that investigated and voted on the \n impeachment of President Richard M.\n Nixon . The impeachment materials are 15 cu. ft.\n in extent and include: narratives about the Watergate\n break-in and related events, and about the bombing of\n Cambodia; interview transcripts and recorded testimony\n of persons involved in Watergate activities; general\n impeachment inquiry materials(committee notebooks,\n personal notes, etc.); reports on White House\n Surveillance activities; Department of Justice/ITT\n Litigation; Milk Producers Cooperatives investigations;\n papers re the Judiciary Committee's \"Fragile Coalition\";\n general correspondence and memoranda; and printed\n materials. (See also, the series of constituent\n correspondence that precedes the impeachment materials.\n Butler kept an audio diary during the impeachment\n process, and these cassette recordings are included\n here, as are his written notes from this time. Also\n present are partial transcripts of an oral history\n project on the \"Fragile Coalition\" conducted in\n 1974.","Unrevised and unedited","The \n Printed Materials are primarily government documents\n from the period of the impeachment of\n Richard M. Nixon. Below is an enumeration of the titles present from donor gifts 1980-1983. Titles from additions, 1985-2015 are present in these boxes, but not yet listed below.","Book I: December 2, 1971 - June 17,\n 1972","Book I: June 19, 1972 - March 1, 1974 \n Book II: June 17, 1972 - February 9,\n 1973","Book III: June 20, 1972 - March 22,\n 1973","Book IV: March 22, 1973 - April 30,\n 1973","Appendix: Political Matters Memoranda \n I: Presidential Statements \n II: Papers in Criminal Cases \n III: Supplementary Documents \n IV: Political Matters memoranda","Executive Session Hearings Before the Select\n Committee on Presidential Campaign Activities\n of the United States Senate, November\n 13,14,15,16, December 4, 11, 1973.","There are three distinct audio recording projects documenting the days of the House\n Judiciary Committee Nixon Impeachment proceedings in July 1974. The first was part audio\n diary and part interviews involving Rep. Butler and reporter Wayne Woodlief. This project \n ran from May to early August 1974, with most of the recordings being from July. The recordings\n of most of these sessions -- some are missing; it is thought to be few, but there is no definitive \n way of knowing -- are in audio cassettes housed in box 55. There is a user set of CDs of these \n recordings in that box, and there are digital audio files of these tapes housed in Box on the Washington and Lee University \n network. There is also an incomplete set of transcripts for this project in box 54. Woodlief \n spoke of trying to produce a book at least partially based on these tapes. He sent such a proposal\n to Butler on July 10, 1975. The only printed product to emerge from these recordings, however, was \n an extensive article in the July 27, 1975 edition of The Roanoke Times , \n also published in the Virginian-Pilot of the same date.","The second recordings were much more limited in scope. On July 31, 1974, Butler sat down with\n Thomas Mooney, a Judiciary Committee attorney, to record on audiotape, their recollection of \n events as they unfolded on July 22-24. Their primary aim seems to have been capturing the \n drafting of the articles of impeachment. There are transcripts -- again just how complete cannot\n be determined, but not any recordings themselves.","The third project was the most ambitious. It was an attempt to record the Nixon Impeachment memories\n of all of the members of the so-called Fragile Coalition, those Democratic and Republican members of \n the House Judiciary Committee who held the swing votes on impeachment. They came together to draft \n articles of impeachment on which they could all vote \"yes\".","The organizers of this project were Thomas Mooney Sr., Stephen Lynch, and Father Donald Shea, longtime chair\n of the history department at St. Joseph College (Indiana). Mooney was a St. Joseph College alumnus and friend\n of Father Shea. The project was funded by St. Joseph College, and other private funds were solicited, as well.","The project had two parts. In the first part, the organizers interviewed members of the coalition \n individually in their Washington Congressional offices in June 1975. This was followed by a retreat on Hilton Head \n Island, SC in July 1975. Extensive aide memoire printed materials were gathered and given to each member of the coalition \n in advance. The recordings made there were in panel format only, with all of the Fragile Coalition members present.","There are no recordings from this project in the Butler papers. There are transcripts -- once again, there is no\n telling how complete -- from both the individual interviews and the Hilton Head panels. There is a third category of\n transcripts, those with interviewees' corrections handwritten on transcriptions. These corrected copies are from both the \n individual and group sessions. Some of these transcripts were sent to Butler and the Powell Archives by the University\n of Maine's Fogler Library which houses the papers of Fragile Coalition member William Cohen.","Unlike the printed materials that are found throughout the Impeachment series, these books and magazines\n are not government documents. There are copies of Time, Newsweek, and\n Life magazines from the time of the impeachment. There are also books and \n a college thesis giving retropective views on that period.","The \n Bankruptcy Materials are 18\n cu. ft. of papers documenting Butler's work in the\n drafting and passage of the legislation popularly known\n as the Bankruptcy Reform Act of 1978. Forms of materials\n present include: minutes of the Bankruptcy Commission,\n markup books on various versions of bankruptcy bills,\n memoranda, briefing materials, meetings transcripts,\n hearing transcripts, conference materials, Congressional\n Record Notebooks, audio tapes of markup sessions, and\n supplemental information on bankruptcy legislation with\n relevant testimony.","This material was arranged by Butler's office into\n three major components: 1)general materials in\n ring-binder notebooks to which Roman Numerals were\n assigned; 2)\"Supplemental Materials: ... \" filed in\n \"books\" numbered 1-45; and, 3) Ken Klee's research\n materials. The arrangement of these materials is not\n easily grasped, but the donor has provided a \"road map.\"\n A Butler document from around 1980 entitled \"The\n Narrative History of the Bankruptcy Act Revision\"\n provides a concise, informal legislative history of the\n Bankruptcy Reform Act of 1978 from Mr. Butler's\n perspective. It also discusses the creation and\n arrangement of these records and includes references to\n the Roman numeral numbering scheme employed by Butler's\n staff. This narrative is found in the first folder of\n the first box of bankruptcy materials(box 57). A second\n helpful narrative entitled \"The Establishment of the\n Commission\" states the reasons that impelled Congress to\n establish the Commission on Bankruptcy in June of 1970.\n This can be found in box 71 in the folder titled \"Mun.\n 5.\" Ken Klee's article on bankruptcy legislative (box\n 72) may also be of use in understanding events leading\n up to the 1978 act. The article is entitled, \"Congress\n and the Bankruptcy Act of 1976,\" and appeared in volume\n 61 of the \n American Bar Association\n Journal (October, 1975).","The \n general materials have been\n removed from the ring-binders, but the folders that now\n hold them are labeled with the Roman numeral\n corresponding to the binder in which they were formerly\n housed. Everything from 1971 research materials to the\n printed public law version of the 1978 Bankruptcy Reform\n Act can be found here. Books and pamphlets printed by\n the Government Office of Printing are found in Roman\n numeral sections I and III-IX. Included here are the\n Commission on Bankruptcy Laws Report, H.R. 10792, H.R.\n 16643, Hearings on H.R. 31 and H.R. 32, Hearings on S.\n 235, S. 236, H.R. 6, and oversized side-by-side\n comparisons of VI (H) and XIII of H.R. 31 and 32 and S.\n 2266 and H.R. 8200 (stored in box 75).","All of the \"Supplemental Legislation and Testimony\"\n is contained in 45 \"books\" and includes correspondence,\n notes and paste-ups of various sections of proposed\n versions of the bankruptcy bill. Section \"F,\" of XLIII\n \"Conference Materials\" (Box 61, Folder 9 from the\n general materials described above) contains the index to\n the 45 books. Much of the contents are reiterations of\n information from the \"Roman numeral\" notebooks arranged\n for quick reference. Testimony is arranged by bill\n section.","The Ken Klee's bankruptcy files were created while\n Klee served as associate counsel for the Subcommittee on\n Civil and Constitutional Rights of the House Committee\n on the Judiciary. They are 4 cu. ft. in extent and are\n divided into three sections: uniform bankruptcy file,\n municipal bankruptcy file (MUN), and bankruptcy act\n subject files. An index to Klee's files is contained in\n Section \"E\" of XLIII \"Conference Materials\" (Box 61,\n Folder 9). The Uniform Bankruptcy Files are arranged\n numerically beginning with the number 102 and contain\n statements, testimonies, correspondence, memoranda,\n drafts and other relevant materials regarding the\n proposed bankruptcy rules. The Municipal Bankruptcy File\n is arranged numerically. The files are designated MUN\n with a corresponding number. These files also contain\n drafts, testimonies, statements, memorandums and\n reports. Klee's Bankruptcy Subject Files are arranged\n alphabetically. Included here (under 'g') is general\n correspondence from 1973-1978.","#I - LII","(A) \n March 19-June 14, 1971 \n September 15,16-November 15, 1971 \n December 13-January 30,31, 1972 \n April 10-May 1, 1972 \n June 12-September 11-12, 1972 \n October 9-10, 1972 \n November 13-14, 1972 \n December 4-5, 1972","(B) \n December 4-5, 1972 \n January 15-16, 1973 \n February 22-24, 1973 \n March 15-17, 1973 \n April 12-14, 1973 \n June 7-12, 1973","(A) \n (B) \n (C)","(A) \n (B) \n (C)","(E) \n (F) \n (G) \n (H) -- Side-by-Side of H.R. 31 and H.R.\n 32 (2 copies) September 2, 1975. In oversize\n carton 49.","(A) \n (B) \n (C)","(A) \n (B)","(A)","(B) \n (C)","(A) \n (B)","Source 13 260;263 \n Source 14 322-323 \n Source 15 336 \n Source 20 412-415 \n Source 23A 502 \n Source 50 549;554-555 \n Source 30 587-588 \n Source 31 595-596 \n Source 33 612-613","Books for S. 2266 and H.R. 8200; H.R. 31 and H.R. 32\n ","Published by San Diego Urban League,\n Inc.","Enclosed copy of RRRA and RRRRA","Legal Services Corporation\n Act papers consist of one cu. ft. of materials\n concerning the authorization of funding for this entity\n for the fiscal years 1982-1984. Included here are: the\n authorization bill, itself; correspondence; \"discussion\n papers\"; press clippings; transcripts of testimony and\n hearing proceedings. (The one file of material about the\n re-authorization of the Department of Justice follows\n the Legal Services papers.)","The \n Voting Rights Act Extension series comprises Butler's legislative papers as a member of the House Judiciary Committee during the consideration of the extension of this Act.","The \n National Bankruptcy Review\n Commission papers are from Butler's service as a\n member of that body from 1995-1997. These 16 cu. ft. of\n materials include: correspondence; meeting minutes;\n memoranda and documents distributed to commission\n members; and the report of the commission and drafts of\n that report.","Box 91 includes audio cassette of\n \"discharge/reaffirmation hearing,\" 1997.","Bicentennial of American Revolution Flag; Bicentennial Medal, 1976; American College of Bankruptcy Commendation plaque, March 14, 1998.","Navy hat, brass buttons, insignia, pins and dog tags.","Contents: 24\"x36 inch photo of Butler, c. 1961; House Concurrent Resolution 672, July 1, 1976; Washington and Lee University Honorary Doctor of Laws Diploma, June 1, 1978; Birthday card from staff, June 2, 1973; National Small Business Association Certificate of Recognition, October 1978; certificate, Governor George Allen (Virgini) naming Butler to Governor's Advisory Council on Self-Determination and Federalism, November 14, 1994.","There are no restrictions.","English"],"unitid_tesim":["004"],"normalized_title_ssm":["M. Caldwell Butler Papers \n 1945-2006"],"collection_title_tesim":["M. Caldwell Butler Papers \n 1945-2006"],"collection_ssim":["M. Caldwell Butler Papers \n 1945-2006"],"repository_ssm":["Washington and Lee University, Law School"],"repository_ssim":["Washington and Lee University, Law School"],"acqinfo_ssim":["This collection was given to the library by M. Caldwell\n Butler in 1980-1983,1997,1999, 2004 and by his estate in 2015."],"has_online_content_ssim":["false"],"physdesc_tesim":["This collection\n consists of ca. 93 cubic feet of materials."],"accessrestrict_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThe Ford medical and financial records are closed.\u003c/p\u003e"],"accessrestrict_heading_ssm":["Access"],"accessrestrict_tesim":["The Ford medical and financial records are closed."],"bioghist_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eManley Caldwell Butler was born June 2, 1925 in Roanoke,\n Virginia, where he lived most of his life until his death on \n July 28, 2014. Following service in the Navy in World War II,\n he received his A.B. from the University of Richmond\n in 1948 and his J.D. from the University of Virginia Law\n School in 1950. Butler married June Nolde in 1950. This union\n produced four sons: Manley, Henry, James and Marshall.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eButler served as the City of Roanoke Representative in\n 1960-1961. In 1962 he was elected to the Virginia House of\n Delegates. He was elected Minority Leader in 1966, a position\n he held until 1972 when he was elected to the 92nd U.S.\n Congress from the 6th District of Virginia. Butler served the\n 6th District for a decade. While serving on the Judiciary\n Committee, Butler participated in the impeachment action\n against President Richard M. Nixon during the summer of 1974.\n In the aftermath of Nixon's resignation, Butler was involved\n in the confirmation hearings of Gerald R. Ford and Nelson\n Rockefeller to serve as President and Vice President\n respectively. Butler was a principal architect of the\n Bankruptcy Reform Act of 1978. He was also a member of the\n Committee on Government Operations. In retirement, Butler\n served on the National Bankruptcy Review Commission in the\n years 1995-1997. \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA partner in the firm of Woods, Rogers \u0026amp; Hazelgrove of\n Roanoke, Virginia from 1983-1998, Mr. Butler held memberships\n in the American Bar Association, the Virginia State Bar, the\n Roanoke Bar Association, the American College of Bankruptcy,\n the Raven Society, the Order of the Coif, and the Board of\n Directors of Dominion Bank Shares Corp of Roanoke. He was also\n a Fellow of the American Bar Foundation and a Director of the\n American Bankruptcy Institute. His fraternal organization\n affiliations include Phi Beta Kappa, Tau Kappa Alpha, Omicron\n Delta Kappa and Phi Gamma Delta.\u003c/p\u003e"],"bioghist_heading_ssm":["Biographical/Historical Information"],"bioghist_tesim":["Manley Caldwell Butler was born June 2, 1925 in Roanoke,\n Virginia, where he lived most of his life until his death on \n July 28, 2014. Following service in the Navy in World War II,\n he received his A.B. from the University of Richmond\n in 1948 and his J.D. from the University of Virginia Law\n School in 1950. Butler married June Nolde in 1950. This union\n produced four sons: Manley, Henry, James and Marshall.","Butler served as the City of Roanoke Representative in\n 1960-1961. In 1962 he was elected to the Virginia House of\n Delegates. He was elected Minority Leader in 1966, a position\n he held until 1972 when he was elected to the 92nd U.S.\n Congress from the 6th District of Virginia. Butler served the\n 6th District for a decade. While serving on the Judiciary\n Committee, Butler participated in the impeachment action\n against President Richard M. Nixon during the summer of 1974.\n In the aftermath of Nixon's resignation, Butler was involved\n in the confirmation hearings of Gerald R. Ford and Nelson\n Rockefeller to serve as President and Vice President\n respectively. Butler was a principal architect of the\n Bankruptcy Reform Act of 1978. He was also a member of the\n Committee on Government Operations. In retirement, Butler\n served on the National Bankruptcy Review Commission in the\n years 1995-1997. ","A partner in the firm of Woods, Rogers \u0026 Hazelgrove of\n Roanoke, Virginia from 1983-1998, Mr. Butler held memberships\n in the American Bar Association, the Virginia State Bar, the\n Roanoke Bar Association, the American College of Bankruptcy,\n the Raven Society, the Order of the Coif, and the Board of\n Directors of Dominion Bank Shares Corp of Roanoke. He was also\n a Fellow of the American Bar Foundation and a Director of the\n American Bankruptcy Institute. His fraternal organization\n affiliations include Phi Beta Kappa, Tau Kappa Alpha, Omicron\n Delta Kappa and Phi Gamma Delta."],"prefercite_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eM. Caldwell Butler Papers, 1945-2006, Ms 004,\n Lewis F. Powell, Jr. Archives, Washington and Lee\n University School of Law, Lexington, VA\u003c/p\u003e"],"prefercite_tesim":["M. Caldwell Butler Papers, 1945-2006, Ms 004,\n Lewis F. Powell, Jr. Archives, Washington and Lee\n University School of Law, Lexington, VA"],"scopecontent_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThe \n M(anley)Caldwell Butler\n Papers consist of approximately 96 cu. ft. of materials from 1925-2006. Most of the papers cover the periods 1972-1982 and 1995-1997. The papers are divided\n into seventeen series: June Nolde Butler papers; correspondence and subject files; military service; appointment calendars; campaigns; scrapbooks, clippings and photos; speeches; newsletters, press\n releases, radio reports and weekly reports; voting record;\n constituency correspondence; confirmation of Gerald R. Ford as\n Vice President; impeachment of President\n Richard M. Nixon; Bankruptcy Reform Act of 1978;\n Legal Services Corporation; re-authorization of the Department of Justice\n for the Fiscal Year 1982; Voting Rights Act extension; the National Bankruptcy Review\n Commission, 1995-1997; and Artifacts, 1944-1998. With the exceptions of the first six series and National\n Bankruptcy Review Commission materials, these papers were\n generated during Butler's terms as U. S. Representative for\n the 6th Congressional District of Virginia, 1972 -1982 (93rd\n Congress - 97th Congress).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe refinement levels of processing are mixed. The gradual donation of materials over a period \n of 40 years is chiefly the cause. The Nixon Impeachment and Bankruptcy Reform Act of 1978 materials \n are mostly described down to the folder level. The National Bankruptcy Review Commission materials arrived largely self-arranged. \n Most other areas of the colleciton, however, are largely unprocessed beyond being sorted into tentative series.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis is particularly true of additions made in 2018 through the estate of Butler's son, James. This has resulted in a temporary \n box renumbering in boxes 1-7. There is also a box of artifacts added at the end of all of the papers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBiographical materials,general correspondence, correspondence with parents and siblings,Letters, \n invitations, menus, calendars, subject files, photos, clippings, artifacts, photos scrapbook (1933-1950)\n and correspondence (1947-1950) with her future husband, M Caldwell Butler\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNixon Impeachment historical studies; Correspondence re publication of book, Stonewall Jim;\n GOP Gala, 2001; certificates of award and merit; records of naval service; education records \n and related materials.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSubjects include: United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit; \n National Bankruptcy Review Commission; Sarah Butler Memorial; Sam Garrison Bar Discipline; \n Bankruptcy Law; Watergate/Impeachment; Susan Aheron; Butler for Governor; Newspaper Items; \n Legal Services Corporation; The Miller Center; and Virginia Cares.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence, subject files, surveys, election returns, and memorabilia\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIn addition to campaign and general coverage, these scrapbooks treat: editorials mentioning Butler; economic conferences; farm conferences; HUD and FMHA conferences; Lynchburg Weather Station; minority business conferences.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMost of these appear to have been kept by his Congressional Office Staff. They document his day-to-day official activities.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThese also document his official activities.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe recordings range from appearances on \u003ctitle render=\"italic\"\u003eFace the Nation \u003c/title\u003e to local forums.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere is a variety of publications on a variety of mainly political topics. forms of materials include trade books, government documents, brochures, and magazinies. \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eSpeeches\u003c/emph\u003e(1964-2001; bulk 1973-1982) are also\n arranged chronologically. The audience, occasion, and\n location are usually noted. From January 1976 onward, a\n topical index is present in addition to the\n chronological listings that are available for all of the\n years. Some nine speeches are missing from the original\n inventory, while others not on that listing were found\n during processing and added to the finding aid.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eNewsletters\u003c/emph\u003e(1973-1981)were\n generated by Congressman Butler's staff to keep citizens\n of the Sixth District of Virginia informed on issues\n before the House, and on the activities of his office.\n The newsletters(N:) are arranged chronologically with an\n alphabetical reference index that has been updated\n through October 1, 1982. This index includes references\n to Radio Reports(RR#) and Weekly Reports(WR#). News\n (Press) Releases (1972-1982), Radio Reports (1973-1978),\n and Weekly Reports (1979-1982) are arranged\n chronologically and their indices provide brief\n summaries of the topics discussed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe \n \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eMembers Personal Voting\n Record\u003c/emph\u003ecovers the period 1973-1982 (93rd Congress\n First Session to the 97th Congress Second Session). Each\n Congress' voting record is divided into two sessions. A\n cumulative record for each Congress is also present.\n Included here are: roll numbers, dates, daily record\n page number, description, and members response. Each\n record contains a roll call subject guide and an index\n to the voting record. Although Butler began his\n congressional term with the 92nd Congress, there is no\n personal voting record for this time.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe \n \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eConstituency Correspondence\u003c/emph\u003eis\n almost exclusively from the period of the impeachment of\n Richard M. Nixon. The letters are divided into those\n favoring impeachment and those opposed to this action.\n There is also correspondence in reaction to the pardon\n of Nixon by President Gerald R. Ford.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMaterials concerning the \n \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eConfirmation of Gerald R. Ford as\n Vice President\u003c/emph\u003einclude: correspondence, memoranda,\n a briefing book, and transcriptions of testimony and\n proceedings during the hearings.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFord medical and financial records are closed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCongressman Butler sat on the House Judiciary\n committee that investigated and voted on the \n \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eimpeachment of President Richard M.\n Nixon\u003c/emph\u003e. The impeachment materials are 15 cu. ft.\n in extent and include: narratives about the Watergate\n break-in and related events, and about the bombing of\n Cambodia; interview transcripts and recorded testimony\n of persons involved in Watergate activities; general\n impeachment inquiry materials(committee notebooks,\n personal notes, etc.); reports on White House\n Surveillance activities; Department of Justice/ITT\n Litigation; Milk Producers Cooperatives investigations;\n papers re the Judiciary Committee's \"Fragile Coalition\";\n general correspondence and memoranda; and printed\n materials. (See also, the series of constituent\n correspondence that precedes the impeachment materials.\n Butler kept an audio diary during the impeachment\n process, and these cassette recordings are included\n here, as are his written notes from this time. Also\n present are partial transcripts of an oral history\n project on the \"Fragile Coalition\" conducted in\n 1974.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eUnrevised and unedited\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe \n \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003ePrinted Materials\u003c/emph\u003eare primarily government documents\n from the period of the impeachment of\n Richard M. Nixon. Below is an enumeration of the titles present from donor gifts 1980-1983. Titles from additions, 1985-2015 are present in these boxes, but not yet listed below.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBook I: December 2, 1971 - June 17,\n 1972\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBook I: June 19, 1972 - March 1, 1974 \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eBook II: June 17, 1972 - February 9,\n 1973\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBook III: June 20, 1972 - March 22,\n 1973\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBook IV: March 22, 1973 - April 30,\n 1973\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAppendix: Political Matters Memoranda \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eI: Presidential Statements \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eII: Papers in Criminal Cases \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eIII: Supplementary Documents \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eIV: Political Matters memoranda\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eExecutive Session Hearings Before the Select\n Committee on Presidential Campaign Activities\n of the United States Senate, November\n 13,14,15,16, December 4, 11, 1973.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere are three distinct audio recording projects documenting the days of the House\n Judiciary Committee Nixon Impeachment proceedings in July 1974. The first was part audio\n diary and part interviews involving Rep. Butler and reporter Wayne Woodlief. This project \n ran from May to early August 1974, with most of the recordings being from July. The recordings\n of most of these sessions -- some are missing; it is thought to be few, but there is no definitive \n way of knowing -- are in audio cassettes housed in box 55. There is a user set of CDs of these \n recordings in that box, and there are digital audio files of these tapes housed in Box on the Washington and Lee University \n network. There is also an incomplete set of transcripts for this project in box 54. Woodlief \n spoke of trying to produce a book at least partially based on these tapes. He sent such a proposal\n to Butler on July 10, 1975. The only printed product to emerge from these recordings, however, was \n an extensive article in the July 27, 1975 edition of The \u003ctitle render=\"italic\"\u003eRoanoke Times\u003c/title\u003e, \n also published in the \u003ctitle render=\"italic\"\u003eVirginian-Pilot\u003c/title\u003e of the same date.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe second recordings were much more limited in scope. On July 31, 1974, Butler sat down with\n Thomas Mooney, a Judiciary Committee attorney, to record on audiotape, their recollection of \n events as they unfolded on July 22-24. Their primary aim seems to have been capturing the \n drafting of the articles of impeachment. There are transcripts -- again just how complete cannot\n be determined, but not any recordings themselves.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe third project was the most ambitious. It was an attempt to record the Nixon Impeachment memories\n of all of the members of the so-called Fragile Coalition, those Democratic and Republican members of \n the House Judiciary Committee who held the swing votes on impeachment. They came together to draft \n articles of impeachment on which they could all vote \"yes\".\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe organizers of this project were Thomas Mooney Sr., Stephen Lynch, and Father Donald Shea, longtime chair\n of the history department at St. Joseph College (Indiana). Mooney was a St. Joseph College alumnus and friend\n of Father Shea. The project was funded by St. Joseph College, and other private funds were solicited, as well.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe project had two parts. In the first part, the organizers interviewed members of the coalition \n individually in their Washington Congressional offices in June 1975. This was followed by a retreat on Hilton Head \n Island, SC in July 1975. Extensive aide memoire printed materials were gathered and given to each member of the coalition \n in advance. The recordings made there were in panel format only, with all of the Fragile Coalition members present.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere are no recordings from this project in the Butler papers. There are transcripts -- once again, there is no\n telling how complete -- from both the individual interviews and the Hilton Head panels. There is a third category of\n transcripts, those with interviewees' corrections handwritten on transcriptions. These corrected copies are from both the \n individual and group sessions. Some of these transcripts were sent to Butler and the Powell Archives by the University\n of Maine's Fogler Library which houses the papers of Fragile Coalition member William Cohen.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eUnlike the printed materials that are found throughout the Impeachment series, these books and magazines\n are not government documents. There are copies of \u003ctitle render=\"italic\"\u003eTime, Newsweek,\u003c/title\u003e and\n \u003ctitle render=\"italic\"\u003eLife\u003c/title\u003e magazines from the time of the impeachment. There are also books and \n a college thesis giving retropective views on that period.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe \n \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eBankruptcy Materials\u003c/emph\u003eare 18\n cu. ft. of papers documenting Butler's work in the\n drafting and passage of the legislation popularly known\n as the Bankruptcy Reform Act of 1978. Forms of materials\n present include: minutes of the Bankruptcy Commission,\n markup books on various versions of bankruptcy bills,\n memoranda, briefing materials, meetings transcripts,\n hearing transcripts, conference materials, Congressional\n Record Notebooks, audio tapes of markup sessions, and\n supplemental information on bankruptcy legislation with\n relevant testimony.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis material was arranged by Butler's office into\n three major components: 1)general materials in\n ring-binder notebooks to which Roman Numerals were\n assigned; 2)\"Supplemental Materials: ... \" filed in\n \"books\" numbered 1-45; and, 3) Ken Klee's research\n materials. The arrangement of these materials is not\n easily grasped, but the donor has provided a \"road map.\"\n A Butler document from around 1980 entitled \"The\n Narrative History of the Bankruptcy Act Revision\"\n provides a concise, informal legislative history of the\n Bankruptcy Reform Act of 1978 from Mr. Butler's\n perspective. It also discusses the creation and\n arrangement of these records and includes references to\n the Roman numeral numbering scheme employed by Butler's\n staff. This narrative is found in the first folder of\n the first box of bankruptcy materials(box 57). A second\n helpful narrative entitled \"The Establishment of the\n Commission\" states the reasons that impelled Congress to\n establish the Commission on Bankruptcy in June of 1970.\n This can be found in box 71 in the folder titled \"Mun.\n 5.\" Ken Klee's article on bankruptcy legislative (box\n 72) may also be of use in understanding events leading\n up to the 1978 act. The article is entitled, \"Congress\n and the Bankruptcy Act of 1976,\" and appeared in volume\n 61 of the \n \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eAmerican Bar Association\n Journal\u003c/title\u003e(October, 1975).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe \n \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003egeneral materials\u003c/emph\u003ehave been\n removed from the ring-binders, but the folders that now\n hold them are labeled with the Roman numeral\n corresponding to the binder in which they were formerly\n housed. Everything from 1971 research materials to the\n printed public law version of the 1978 Bankruptcy Reform\n Act can be found here. Books and pamphlets printed by\n the Government Office of Printing are found in Roman\n numeral sections I and III-IX. Included here are the\n Commission on Bankruptcy Laws Report, H.R. 10792, H.R.\n 16643, Hearings on H.R. 31 and H.R. 32, Hearings on S.\n 235, S. 236, H.R. 6, and oversized side-by-side\n comparisons of VI (H) and XIII of H.R. 31 and 32 and S.\n 2266 and H.R. 8200 (stored in box 75).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAll of the \"Supplemental Legislation and Testimony\"\n is contained in 45 \"books\" and includes correspondence,\n notes and paste-ups of various sections of proposed\n versions of the bankruptcy bill. Section \"F,\" of XLIII\n \"Conference Materials\" (Box 61, Folder 9 from the\n general materials described above) contains the index to\n the 45 books. Much of the contents are reiterations of\n information from the \"Roman numeral\" notebooks arranged\n for quick reference. Testimony is arranged by bill\n section.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe Ken Klee's bankruptcy files were created while\n Klee served as associate counsel for the Subcommittee on\n Civil and Constitutional Rights of the House Committee\n on the Judiciary. They are 4 cu. ft. in extent and are\n divided into three sections: uniform bankruptcy file,\n municipal bankruptcy file (MUN), and bankruptcy act\n subject files. An index to Klee's files is contained in\n Section \"E\" of XLIII \"Conference Materials\" (Box 61,\n Folder 9). The Uniform Bankruptcy Files are arranged\n numerically beginning with the number 102 and contain\n statements, testimonies, correspondence, memoranda,\n drafts and other relevant materials regarding the\n proposed bankruptcy rules. The Municipal Bankruptcy File\n is arranged numerically. The files are designated MUN\n with a corresponding number. These files also contain\n drafts, testimonies, statements, memorandums and\n reports. Klee's Bankruptcy Subject Files are arranged\n alphabetically. Included here (under 'g') is general\n correspondence from 1973-1978.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e#I - LII\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e(A) \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eMarch 19-June 14, 1971 \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eSeptember 15,16-November 15, 1971 \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eDecember 13-January 30,31, 1972 \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eApril 10-May 1, 1972 \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eJune 12-September 11-12, 1972 \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eOctober 9-10, 1972 \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eNovember 13-14, 1972 \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eDecember 4-5, 1972\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e(B) \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eDecember 4-5, 1972 \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eJanuary 15-16, 1973 \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eFebruary 22-24, 1973 \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eMarch 15-17, 1973 \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eApril 12-14, 1973 \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eJune 7-12, 1973\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e(A) \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e(B) \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e(C)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e(A) \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e(B) \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e(C)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e(E) \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e(F) \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e(G) \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e(H) -- Side-by-Side of H.R. 31 and H.R.\n 32 (2 copies) September 2, 1975. In oversize\n carton 49.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e(A) \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e(B) \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e(C)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e(A) \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e(B)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e(A)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e(B) \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e(C)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e(A) \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e(B)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSource 13 260;263 \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eSource 14 322-323 \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eSource 15 336 \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eSource 20 412-415 \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eSource 23A 502 \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eSource 50 549;554-555 \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eSource 30 587-588 \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eSource 31 595-596 \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eSource 33 612-613\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBooks for S. 2266 and H.R. 8200; H.R. 31 and H.R. 32\n \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePublished by San Diego Urban League,\n Inc.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEnclosed copy of RRRA and RRRRA\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eLegal Services Corporation\n Act\u003c/emph\u003epapers consist of one cu. ft. of materials\n concerning the authorization of funding for this entity\n for the fiscal years 1982-1984. Included here are: the\n authorization bill, itself; correspondence; \"discussion\n papers\"; press clippings; transcripts of testimony and\n hearing proceedings. (The one file of material about the\n re-authorization of the Department of Justice follows\n the Legal Services papers.)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe \n \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eVoting Rights Act Extension\u003c/emph\u003eseries comprises Butler's legislative papers as a member of the House Judiciary Committee during the consideration of the extension of this Act.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe \n \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eNational Bankruptcy Review\n Commission\u003c/emph\u003epapers are from Butler's service as a\n member of that body from 1995-1997. These 16 cu. ft. of\n materials include: correspondence; meeting minutes;\n memoranda and documents distributed to commission\n members; and the report of the commission and drafts of\n that report.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBox 91 includes audio cassette of\n \"discharge/reaffirmation hearing,\" 1997.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBicentennial of American Revolution Flag; Bicentennial Medal, 1976; American College of Bankruptcy Commendation plaque, March 14, 1998.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNavy hat, brass buttons, insignia, pins and dog tags.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eContents: 24\"x36 inch photo of Butler, c. 1961; House Concurrent Resolution 672, July 1, 1976; Washington and Lee University Honorary Doctor of Laws Diploma, June 1, 1978; Birthday card from staff, June 2, 1973; National Small Business Association Certificate of Recognition, October 1978; certificate, Governor George Allen (Virgini) naming Butler to Governor's Advisory Council on Self-Determination and Federalism, November 14, 1994.\u003c/p\u003e"],"scopecontent_heading_ssm":["Scope and Content Information","Scope and Content\n "],"scopecontent_tesim":["The \n M(anley)Caldwell Butler\n Papers consist of approximately 96 cu. ft. of materials from 1925-2006. Most of the papers cover the periods 1972-1982 and 1995-1997. The papers are divided\n into seventeen series: June Nolde Butler papers; correspondence and subject files; military service; appointment calendars; campaigns; scrapbooks, clippings and photos; speeches; newsletters, press\n releases, radio reports and weekly reports; voting record;\n constituency correspondence; confirmation of Gerald R. Ford as\n Vice President; impeachment of President\n Richard M. Nixon; Bankruptcy Reform Act of 1978;\n Legal Services Corporation; re-authorization of the Department of Justice\n for the Fiscal Year 1982; Voting Rights Act extension; the National Bankruptcy Review\n Commission, 1995-1997; and Artifacts, 1944-1998. With the exceptions of the first six series and National\n Bankruptcy Review Commission materials, these papers were\n generated during Butler's terms as U. S. Representative for\n the 6th Congressional District of Virginia, 1972 -1982 (93rd\n Congress - 97th Congress).","The refinement levels of processing are mixed. The gradual donation of materials over a period \n of 40 years is chiefly the cause. The Nixon Impeachment and Bankruptcy Reform Act of 1978 materials \n are mostly described down to the folder level. The National Bankruptcy Review Commission materials arrived largely self-arranged. \n Most other areas of the colleciton, however, are largely unprocessed beyond being sorted into tentative series.","This is particularly true of additions made in 2018 through the estate of Butler's son, James. This has resulted in a temporary \n box renumbering in boxes 1-7. There is also a box of artifacts added at the end of all of the papers.","Biographical materials,general correspondence, correspondence with parents and siblings,Letters, \n invitations, menus, calendars, subject files, photos, clippings, artifacts, photos scrapbook (1933-1950)\n and correspondence (1947-1950) with her future husband, M Caldwell Butler","Nixon Impeachment historical studies; Correspondence re publication of book, Stonewall Jim;\n GOP Gala, 2001; certificates of award and merit; records of naval service; education records \n and related materials.","Subjects include: United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit; \n National Bankruptcy Review Commission; Sarah Butler Memorial; Sam Garrison Bar Discipline; \n Bankruptcy Law; Watergate/Impeachment; Susan Aheron; Butler for Governor; Newspaper Items; \n Legal Services Corporation; The Miller Center; and Virginia Cares.","Correspondence, subject files, surveys, election returns, and memorabilia","In addition to campaign and general coverage, these scrapbooks treat: editorials mentioning Butler; economic conferences; farm conferences; HUD and FMHA conferences; Lynchburg Weather Station; minority business conferences.","Most of these appear to have been kept by his Congressional Office Staff. They document his day-to-day official activities.","These also document his official activities.","The recordings range from appearances on Face the Nation to local forums.","There is a variety of publications on a variety of mainly political topics. forms of materials include trade books, government documents, brochures, and magazinies. ","Speeches (1964-2001; bulk 1973-1982) are also\n arranged chronologically. The audience, occasion, and\n location are usually noted. From January 1976 onward, a\n topical index is present in addition to the\n chronological listings that are available for all of the\n years. Some nine speeches are missing from the original\n inventory, while others not on that listing were found\n during processing and added to the finding aid.","Newsletters (1973-1981)were\n generated by Congressman Butler's staff to keep citizens\n of the Sixth District of Virginia informed on issues\n before the House, and on the activities of his office.\n The newsletters(N:) are arranged chronologically with an\n alphabetical reference index that has been updated\n through October 1, 1982. This index includes references\n to Radio Reports(RR#) and Weekly Reports(WR#). News\n (Press) Releases (1972-1982), Radio Reports (1973-1978),\n and Weekly Reports (1979-1982) are arranged\n chronologically and their indices provide brief\n summaries of the topics discussed.","The \n Members Personal Voting\n Record covers the period 1973-1982 (93rd Congress\n First Session to the 97th Congress Second Session). Each\n Congress' voting record is divided into two sessions. A\n cumulative record for each Congress is also present.\n Included here are: roll numbers, dates, daily record\n page number, description, and members response. Each\n record contains a roll call subject guide and an index\n to the voting record. Although Butler began his\n congressional term with the 92nd Congress, there is no\n personal voting record for this time.","The \n Constituency Correspondence is\n almost exclusively from the period of the impeachment of\n Richard M. Nixon. The letters are divided into those\n favoring impeachment and those opposed to this action.\n There is also correspondence in reaction to the pardon\n of Nixon by President Gerald R. Ford.","Materials concerning the \n Confirmation of Gerald R. Ford as\n Vice President include: correspondence, memoranda,\n a briefing book, and transcriptions of testimony and\n proceedings during the hearings.","Ford medical and financial records are closed.","Congressman Butler sat on the House Judiciary\n committee that investigated and voted on the \n impeachment of President Richard M.\n Nixon . The impeachment materials are 15 cu. ft.\n in extent and include: narratives about the Watergate\n break-in and related events, and about the bombing of\n Cambodia; interview transcripts and recorded testimony\n of persons involved in Watergate activities; general\n impeachment inquiry materials(committee notebooks,\n personal notes, etc.); reports on White House\n Surveillance activities; Department of Justice/ITT\n Litigation; Milk Producers Cooperatives investigations;\n papers re the Judiciary Committee's \"Fragile Coalition\";\n general correspondence and memoranda; and printed\n materials. (See also, the series of constituent\n correspondence that precedes the impeachment materials.\n Butler kept an audio diary during the impeachment\n process, and these cassette recordings are included\n here, as are his written notes from this time. Also\n present are partial transcripts of an oral history\n project on the \"Fragile Coalition\" conducted in\n 1974.","Unrevised and unedited","The \n Printed Materials are primarily government documents\n from the period of the impeachment of\n Richard M. Nixon. Below is an enumeration of the titles present from donor gifts 1980-1983. Titles from additions, 1985-2015 are present in these boxes, but not yet listed below.","Book I: December 2, 1971 - June 17,\n 1972","Book I: June 19, 1972 - March 1, 1974 \n Book II: June 17, 1972 - February 9,\n 1973","Book III: June 20, 1972 - March 22,\n 1973","Book IV: March 22, 1973 - April 30,\n 1973","Appendix: Political Matters Memoranda \n I: Presidential Statements \n II: Papers in Criminal Cases \n III: Supplementary Documents \n IV: Political Matters memoranda","Executive Session Hearings Before the Select\n Committee on Presidential Campaign Activities\n of the United States Senate, November\n 13,14,15,16, December 4, 11, 1973.","There are three distinct audio recording projects documenting the days of the House\n Judiciary Committee Nixon Impeachment proceedings in July 1974. The first was part audio\n diary and part interviews involving Rep. Butler and reporter Wayne Woodlief. This project \n ran from May to early August 1974, with most of the recordings being from July. The recordings\n of most of these sessions -- some are missing; it is thought to be few, but there is no definitive \n way of knowing -- are in audio cassettes housed in box 55. There is a user set of CDs of these \n recordings in that box, and there are digital audio files of these tapes housed in Box on the Washington and Lee University \n network. There is also an incomplete set of transcripts for this project in box 54. Woodlief \n spoke of trying to produce a book at least partially based on these tapes. He sent such a proposal\n to Butler on July 10, 1975. The only printed product to emerge from these recordings, however, was \n an extensive article in the July 27, 1975 edition of The Roanoke Times , \n also published in the Virginian-Pilot of the same date.","The second recordings were much more limited in scope. On July 31, 1974, Butler sat down with\n Thomas Mooney, a Judiciary Committee attorney, to record on audiotape, their recollection of \n events as they unfolded on July 22-24. Their primary aim seems to have been capturing the \n drafting of the articles of impeachment. There are transcripts -- again just how complete cannot\n be determined, but not any recordings themselves.","The third project was the most ambitious. It was an attempt to record the Nixon Impeachment memories\n of all of the members of the so-called Fragile Coalition, those Democratic and Republican members of \n the House Judiciary Committee who held the swing votes on impeachment. They came together to draft \n articles of impeachment on which they could all vote \"yes\".","The organizers of this project were Thomas Mooney Sr., Stephen Lynch, and Father Donald Shea, longtime chair\n of the history department at St. Joseph College (Indiana). Mooney was a St. Joseph College alumnus and friend\n of Father Shea. The project was funded by St. Joseph College, and other private funds were solicited, as well.","The project had two parts. In the first part, the organizers interviewed members of the coalition \n individually in their Washington Congressional offices in June 1975. This was followed by a retreat on Hilton Head \n Island, SC in July 1975. Extensive aide memoire printed materials were gathered and given to each member of the coalition \n in advance. The recordings made there were in panel format only, with all of the Fragile Coalition members present.","There are no recordings from this project in the Butler papers. There are transcripts -- once again, there is no\n telling how complete -- from both the individual interviews and the Hilton Head panels. There is a third category of\n transcripts, those with interviewees' corrections handwritten on transcriptions. These corrected copies are from both the \n individual and group sessions. Some of these transcripts were sent to Butler and the Powell Archives by the University\n of Maine's Fogler Library which houses the papers of Fragile Coalition member William Cohen.","Unlike the printed materials that are found throughout the Impeachment series, these books and magazines\n are not government documents. There are copies of Time, Newsweek, and\n Life magazines from the time of the impeachment. There are also books and \n a college thesis giving retropective views on that period.","The \n Bankruptcy Materials are 18\n cu. ft. of papers documenting Butler's work in the\n drafting and passage of the legislation popularly known\n as the Bankruptcy Reform Act of 1978. Forms of materials\n present include: minutes of the Bankruptcy Commission,\n markup books on various versions of bankruptcy bills,\n memoranda, briefing materials, meetings transcripts,\n hearing transcripts, conference materials, Congressional\n Record Notebooks, audio tapes of markup sessions, and\n supplemental information on bankruptcy legislation with\n relevant testimony.","This material was arranged by Butler's office into\n three major components: 1)general materials in\n ring-binder notebooks to which Roman Numerals were\n assigned; 2)\"Supplemental Materials: ... \" filed in\n \"books\" numbered 1-45; and, 3) Ken Klee's research\n materials. The arrangement of these materials is not\n easily grasped, but the donor has provided a \"road map.\"\n A Butler document from around 1980 entitled \"The\n Narrative History of the Bankruptcy Act Revision\"\n provides a concise, informal legislative history of the\n Bankruptcy Reform Act of 1978 from Mr. Butler's\n perspective. It also discusses the creation and\n arrangement of these records and includes references to\n the Roman numeral numbering scheme employed by Butler's\n staff. This narrative is found in the first folder of\n the first box of bankruptcy materials(box 57). A second\n helpful narrative entitled \"The Establishment of the\n Commission\" states the reasons that impelled Congress to\n establish the Commission on Bankruptcy in June of 1970.\n This can be found in box 71 in the folder titled \"Mun.\n 5.\" Ken Klee's article on bankruptcy legislative (box\n 72) may also be of use in understanding events leading\n up to the 1978 act. The article is entitled, \"Congress\n and the Bankruptcy Act of 1976,\" and appeared in volume\n 61 of the \n American Bar Association\n Journal (October, 1975).","The \n general materials have been\n removed from the ring-binders, but the folders that now\n hold them are labeled with the Roman numeral\n corresponding to the binder in which they were formerly\n housed. Everything from 1971 research materials to the\n printed public law version of the 1978 Bankruptcy Reform\n Act can be found here. Books and pamphlets printed by\n the Government Office of Printing are found in Roman\n numeral sections I and III-IX. Included here are the\n Commission on Bankruptcy Laws Report, H.R. 10792, H.R.\n 16643, Hearings on H.R. 31 and H.R. 32, Hearings on S.\n 235, S. 236, H.R. 6, and oversized side-by-side\n comparisons of VI (H) and XIII of H.R. 31 and 32 and S.\n 2266 and H.R. 8200 (stored in box 75).","All of the \"Supplemental Legislation and Testimony\"\n is contained in 45 \"books\" and includes correspondence,\n notes and paste-ups of various sections of proposed\n versions of the bankruptcy bill. Section \"F,\" of XLIII\n \"Conference Materials\" (Box 61, Folder 9 from the\n general materials described above) contains the index to\n the 45 books. Much of the contents are reiterations of\n information from the \"Roman numeral\" notebooks arranged\n for quick reference. Testimony is arranged by bill\n section.","The Ken Klee's bankruptcy files were created while\n Klee served as associate counsel for the Subcommittee on\n Civil and Constitutional Rights of the House Committee\n on the Judiciary. They are 4 cu. ft. in extent and are\n divided into three sections: uniform bankruptcy file,\n municipal bankruptcy file (MUN), and bankruptcy act\n subject files. An index to Klee's files is contained in\n Section \"E\" of XLIII \"Conference Materials\" (Box 61,\n Folder 9). The Uniform Bankruptcy Files are arranged\n numerically beginning with the number 102 and contain\n statements, testimonies, correspondence, memoranda,\n drafts and other relevant materials regarding the\n proposed bankruptcy rules. The Municipal Bankruptcy File\n is arranged numerically. The files are designated MUN\n with a corresponding number. These files also contain\n drafts, testimonies, statements, memorandums and\n reports. Klee's Bankruptcy Subject Files are arranged\n alphabetically. Included here (under 'g') is general\n correspondence from 1973-1978.","#I - LII","(A) \n March 19-June 14, 1971 \n September 15,16-November 15, 1971 \n December 13-January 30,31, 1972 \n April 10-May 1, 1972 \n June 12-September 11-12, 1972 \n October 9-10, 1972 \n November 13-14, 1972 \n December 4-5, 1972","(B) \n December 4-5, 1972 \n January 15-16, 1973 \n February 22-24, 1973 \n March 15-17, 1973 \n April 12-14, 1973 \n June 7-12, 1973","(A) \n (B) \n (C)","(A) \n (B) \n (C)","(E) \n (F) \n (G) \n (H) -- Side-by-Side of H.R. 31 and H.R.\n 32 (2 copies) September 2, 1975. In oversize\n carton 49.","(A) \n (B) \n (C)","(A) \n (B)","(A)","(B) \n (C)","(A) \n (B)","Source 13 260;263 \n Source 14 322-323 \n Source 15 336 \n Source 20 412-415 \n Source 23A 502 \n Source 50 549;554-555 \n Source 30 587-588 \n Source 31 595-596 \n Source 33 612-613","Books for S. 2266 and H.R. 8200; H.R. 31 and H.R. 32\n ","Published by San Diego Urban League,\n Inc.","Enclosed copy of RRRA and RRRRA","Legal Services Corporation\n Act papers consist of one cu. ft. of materials\n concerning the authorization of funding for this entity\n for the fiscal years 1982-1984. Included here are: the\n authorization bill, itself; correspondence; \"discussion\n papers\"; press clippings; transcripts of testimony and\n hearing proceedings. (The one file of material about the\n re-authorization of the Department of Justice follows\n the Legal Services papers.)","The \n Voting Rights Act Extension series comprises Butler's legislative papers as a member of the House Judiciary Committee during the consideration of the extension of this Act.","The \n National Bankruptcy Review\n Commission papers are from Butler's service as a\n member of that body from 1995-1997. These 16 cu. ft. of\n materials include: correspondence; meeting minutes;\n memoranda and documents distributed to commission\n members; and the report of the commission and drafts of\n that report.","Box 91 includes audio cassette of\n \"discharge/reaffirmation hearing,\" 1997.","Bicentennial of American Revolution Flag; Bicentennial Medal, 1976; American College of Bankruptcy Commendation plaque, March 14, 1998.","Navy hat, brass buttons, insignia, pins and dog tags.","Contents: 24\"x36 inch photo of Butler, c. 1961; House Concurrent Resolution 672, July 1, 1976; Washington and Lee University Honorary Doctor of Laws Diploma, June 1, 1978; Birthday card from staff, June 2, 1973; National Small Business Association Certificate of Recognition, October 1978; certificate, Governor George Allen (Virgini) naming Butler to Governor's Advisory Council on Self-Determination and Federalism, November 14, 1994."],"userestrict_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThere are no restrictions.\u003c/p\u003e"],"userestrict_heading_ssm":["Use Restrictions"],"userestrict_tesim":["There are no restrictions."],"language_ssim":["English"],"total_component_count_is":567,"online_item_count_is":0,"component_level_isim":[0],"sort_isi":0,"timestamp":"2026-05-20T15:09:15.002Z"}]}},"label":"Breadcrumbs"}}},"links":{"self":"https://arvasarchive.org/catalog/vilxwl_vilxwl00003_c16_c02_c01_c01"}},{"id":"vilxwl_vilxwl00003_c16_c02_c01_c03","type":"Item","attributes":{"title":"103a: Tables of Bankruptcy\n Stats for fiscal year ending June 30, 1974 \n prepared April\n 1975","breadcrumbs":{"id":"https://arvasarchive.org/catalog/vilxwl_vilxwl00003_c16_c02_c01_c03#breadcrumbs","type":"document_value","attributes":{"value":{"ref_ssi":"vilxwl_vilxwl00003_c16_c02_c01_c03","ref_ssm":["vilxwl_vilxwl00003_c16_c02_c01_c03"],"id":"vilxwl_vilxwl00003_c16_c02_c01_c03","ead_ssi":"vilxwl_vilxwl00003","_root_":"vilxwl_vilxwl00003","_nest_parent_":"vilxwl_vilxwl00003_c16_c02_c01","parent_ssi":"vilxwl_vilxwl00003_c16_c02_c01","parent_ssim":["vilxwl_vilxwl00003","vilxwl_vilxwl00003_c16","vilxwl_vilxwl00003_c16_c02","vilxwl_vilxwl00003_c16_c02_c01"],"parent_ids_ssim":["vilxwl_vilxwl00003","vilxwl_vilxwl00003_c16","vilxwl_vilxwl00003_c16_c02","vilxwl_vilxwl00003_c16_c02_c01"],"parent_unittitles_ssm":["M. 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Caldwell Butler Papers \n 1945-2006","This collection\n consists of ca. 93 cubic feet of materials.","The Ford medical and financial records are closed.","Manley Caldwell Butler was born June 2, 1925 in Roanoke,\n Virginia, where he lived most of his life until his death on \n July 28, 2014. Following service in the Navy in World War II,\n he received his A.B. from the University of Richmond\n in 1948 and his J.D. from the University of Virginia Law\n School in 1950. Butler married June Nolde in 1950. This union\n produced four sons: Manley, Henry, James and Marshall.","Butler served as the City of Roanoke Representative in\n 1960-1961. In 1962 he was elected to the Virginia House of\n Delegates. He was elected Minority Leader in 1966, a position\n he held until 1972 when he was elected to the 92nd U.S.\n Congress from the 6th District of Virginia. Butler served the\n 6th District for a decade. While serving on the Judiciary\n Committee, Butler participated in the impeachment action\n against President Richard M. Nixon during the summer of 1974.\n In the aftermath of Nixon's resignation, Butler was involved\n in the confirmation hearings of Gerald R. Ford and Nelson\n Rockefeller to serve as President and Vice President\n respectively. Butler was a principal architect of the\n Bankruptcy Reform Act of 1978. He was also a member of the\n Committee on Government Operations. In retirement, Butler\n served on the National Bankruptcy Review Commission in the\n years 1995-1997. ","A partner in the firm of Woods, Rogers \u0026 Hazelgrove of\n Roanoke, Virginia from 1983-1998, Mr. Butler held memberships\n in the American Bar Association, the Virginia State Bar, the\n Roanoke Bar Association, the American College of Bankruptcy,\n the Raven Society, the Order of the Coif, and the Board of\n Directors of Dominion Bank Shares Corp of Roanoke. He was also\n a Fellow of the American Bar Foundation and a Director of the\n American Bankruptcy Institute. His fraternal organization\n affiliations include Phi Beta Kappa, Tau Kappa Alpha, Omicron\n Delta Kappa and Phi Gamma Delta.","The \n M(anley)Caldwell Butler\n Papers consist of approximately 96 cu. ft. of materials from 1925-2006. Most of the papers cover the periods 1972-1982 and 1995-1997. The papers are divided\n into seventeen series: June Nolde Butler papers; correspondence and subject files; military service; appointment calendars; campaigns; scrapbooks, clippings and photos; speeches; newsletters, press\n releases, radio reports and weekly reports; voting record;\n constituency correspondence; confirmation of Gerald R. Ford as\n Vice President; impeachment of President\n Richard M. Nixon; Bankruptcy Reform Act of 1978;\n Legal Services Corporation; re-authorization of the Department of Justice\n for the Fiscal Year 1982; Voting Rights Act extension; the National Bankruptcy Review\n Commission, 1995-1997; and Artifacts, 1944-1998. With the exceptions of the first six series and National\n Bankruptcy Review Commission materials, these papers were\n generated during Butler's terms as U. S. Representative for\n the 6th Congressional District of Virginia, 1972 -1982 (93rd\n Congress - 97th Congress).","The refinement levels of processing are mixed. The gradual donation of materials over a period \n of 40 years is chiefly the cause. The Nixon Impeachment and Bankruptcy Reform Act of 1978 materials \n are mostly described down to the folder level. The National Bankruptcy Review Commission materials arrived largely self-arranged. \n Most other areas of the colleciton, however, are largely unprocessed beyond being sorted into tentative series.","This is particularly true of additions made in 2018 through the estate of Butler's son, James. This has resulted in a temporary \n box renumbering in boxes 1-7. There is also a box of artifacts added at the end of all of the papers.","Biographical materials,general correspondence, correspondence with parents and siblings,Letters, \n invitations, menus, calendars, subject files, photos, clippings, artifacts, photos scrapbook (1933-1950)\n and correspondence (1947-1950) with her future husband, M Caldwell Butler","Nixon Impeachment historical studies; Correspondence re publication of book, Stonewall Jim;\n GOP Gala, 2001; certificates of award and merit; records of naval service; education records \n and related materials.","Subjects include: United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit; \n National Bankruptcy Review Commission; Sarah Butler Memorial; Sam Garrison Bar Discipline; \n Bankruptcy Law; Watergate/Impeachment; Susan Aheron; Butler for Governor; Newspaper Items; \n Legal Services Corporation; The Miller Center; and Virginia Cares.","Correspondence, subject files, surveys, election returns, and memorabilia","In addition to campaign and general coverage, these scrapbooks treat: editorials mentioning Butler; economic conferences; farm conferences; HUD and FMHA conferences; Lynchburg Weather Station; minority business conferences.","Most of these appear to have been kept by his Congressional Office Staff. They document his day-to-day official activities.","These also document his official activities.","The recordings range from appearances on Face the Nation to local forums.","There is a variety of publications on a variety of mainly political topics. forms of materials include trade books, government documents, brochures, and magazinies. ","Speeches (1964-2001; bulk 1973-1982) are also\n arranged chronologically. The audience, occasion, and\n location are usually noted. From January 1976 onward, a\n topical index is present in addition to the\n chronological listings that are available for all of the\n years. Some nine speeches are missing from the original\n inventory, while others not on that listing were found\n during processing and added to the finding aid.","Newsletters (1973-1981)were\n generated by Congressman Butler's staff to keep citizens\n of the Sixth District of Virginia informed on issues\n before the House, and on the activities of his office.\n The newsletters(N:) are arranged chronologically with an\n alphabetical reference index that has been updated\n through October 1, 1982. This index includes references\n to Radio Reports(RR#) and Weekly Reports(WR#). News\n (Press) Releases (1972-1982), Radio Reports (1973-1978),\n and Weekly Reports (1979-1982) are arranged\n chronologically and their indices provide brief\n summaries of the topics discussed.","The \n Members Personal Voting\n Record covers the period 1973-1982 (93rd Congress\n First Session to the 97th Congress Second Session). Each\n Congress' voting record is divided into two sessions. A\n cumulative record for each Congress is also present.\n Included here are: roll numbers, dates, daily record\n page number, description, and members response. Each\n record contains a roll call subject guide and an index\n to the voting record. Although Butler began his\n congressional term with the 92nd Congress, there is no\n personal voting record for this time.","The \n Constituency Correspondence is\n almost exclusively from the period of the impeachment of\n Richard M. Nixon. The letters are divided into those\n favoring impeachment and those opposed to this action.\n There is also correspondence in reaction to the pardon\n of Nixon by President Gerald R. Ford.","Materials concerning the \n Confirmation of Gerald R. Ford as\n Vice President include: correspondence, memoranda,\n a briefing book, and transcriptions of testimony and\n proceedings during the hearings.","Ford medical and financial records are closed.","Congressman Butler sat on the House Judiciary\n committee that investigated and voted on the \n impeachment of President Richard M.\n Nixon . The impeachment materials are 15 cu. ft.\n in extent and include: narratives about the Watergate\n break-in and related events, and about the bombing of\n Cambodia; interview transcripts and recorded testimony\n of persons involved in Watergate activities; general\n impeachment inquiry materials(committee notebooks,\n personal notes, etc.); reports on White House\n Surveillance activities; Department of Justice/ITT\n Litigation; Milk Producers Cooperatives investigations;\n papers re the Judiciary Committee's \"Fragile Coalition\";\n general correspondence and memoranda; and printed\n materials. (See also, the series of constituent\n correspondence that precedes the impeachment materials.\n Butler kept an audio diary during the impeachment\n process, and these cassette recordings are included\n here, as are his written notes from this time. Also\n present are partial transcripts of an oral history\n project on the \"Fragile Coalition\" conducted in\n 1974.","Unrevised and unedited","The \n Printed Materials are primarily government documents\n from the period of the impeachment of\n Richard M. Nixon. Below is an enumeration of the titles present from donor gifts 1980-1983. Titles from additions, 1985-2015 are present in these boxes, but not yet listed below.","Book I: December 2, 1971 - June 17,\n 1972","Book I: June 19, 1972 - March 1, 1974 \n Book II: June 17, 1972 - February 9,\n 1973","Book III: June 20, 1972 - March 22,\n 1973","Book IV: March 22, 1973 - April 30,\n 1973","Appendix: Political Matters Memoranda \n I: Presidential Statements \n II: Papers in Criminal Cases \n III: Supplementary Documents \n IV: Political Matters memoranda","Executive Session Hearings Before the Select\n Committee on Presidential Campaign Activities\n of the United States Senate, November\n 13,14,15,16, December 4, 11, 1973.","There are three distinct audio recording projects documenting the days of the House\n Judiciary Committee Nixon Impeachment proceedings in July 1974. The first was part audio\n diary and part interviews involving Rep. Butler and reporter Wayne Woodlief. This project \n ran from May to early August 1974, with most of the recordings being from July. The recordings\n of most of these sessions -- some are missing; it is thought to be few, but there is no definitive \n way of knowing -- are in audio cassettes housed in box 55. There is a user set of CDs of these \n recordings in that box, and there are digital audio files of these tapes housed in Box on the Washington and Lee University \n network. There is also an incomplete set of transcripts for this project in box 54. Woodlief \n spoke of trying to produce a book at least partially based on these tapes. He sent such a proposal\n to Butler on July 10, 1975. The only printed product to emerge from these recordings, however, was \n an extensive article in the July 27, 1975 edition of The Roanoke Times , \n also published in the Virginian-Pilot of the same date.","The second recordings were much more limited in scope. On July 31, 1974, Butler sat down with\n Thomas Mooney, a Judiciary Committee attorney, to record on audiotape, their recollection of \n events as they unfolded on July 22-24. Their primary aim seems to have been capturing the \n drafting of the articles of impeachment. There are transcripts -- again just how complete cannot\n be determined, but not any recordings themselves.","The third project was the most ambitious. It was an attempt to record the Nixon Impeachment memories\n of all of the members of the so-called Fragile Coalition, those Democratic and Republican members of \n the House Judiciary Committee who held the swing votes on impeachment. They came together to draft \n articles of impeachment on which they could all vote \"yes\".","The organizers of this project were Thomas Mooney Sr., Stephen Lynch, and Father Donald Shea, longtime chair\n of the history department at St. Joseph College (Indiana). Mooney was a St. Joseph College alumnus and friend\n of Father Shea. The project was funded by St. Joseph College, and other private funds were solicited, as well.","The project had two parts. In the first part, the organizers interviewed members of the coalition \n individually in their Washington Congressional offices in June 1975. This was followed by a retreat on Hilton Head \n Island, SC in July 1975. Extensive aide memoire printed materials were gathered and given to each member of the coalition \n in advance. The recordings made there were in panel format only, with all of the Fragile Coalition members present.","There are no recordings from this project in the Butler papers. There are transcripts -- once again, there is no\n telling how complete -- from both the individual interviews and the Hilton Head panels. There is a third category of\n transcripts, those with interviewees' corrections handwritten on transcriptions. These corrected copies are from both the \n individual and group sessions. Some of these transcripts were sent to Butler and the Powell Archives by the University\n of Maine's Fogler Library which houses the papers of Fragile Coalition member William Cohen.","Unlike the printed materials that are found throughout the Impeachment series, these books and magazines\n are not government documents. There are copies of Time, Newsweek, and\n Life magazines from the time of the impeachment. There are also books and \n a college thesis giving retropective views on that period.","The \n Bankruptcy Materials are 18\n cu. ft. of papers documenting Butler's work in the\n drafting and passage of the legislation popularly known\n as the Bankruptcy Reform Act of 1978. Forms of materials\n present include: minutes of the Bankruptcy Commission,\n markup books on various versions of bankruptcy bills,\n memoranda, briefing materials, meetings transcripts,\n hearing transcripts, conference materials, Congressional\n Record Notebooks, audio tapes of markup sessions, and\n supplemental information on bankruptcy legislation with\n relevant testimony.","This material was arranged by Butler's office into\n three major components: 1)general materials in\n ring-binder notebooks to which Roman Numerals were\n assigned; 2)\"Supplemental Materials: ... \" filed in\n \"books\" numbered 1-45; and, 3) Ken Klee's research\n materials. The arrangement of these materials is not\n easily grasped, but the donor has provided a \"road map.\"\n A Butler document from around 1980 entitled \"The\n Narrative History of the Bankruptcy Act Revision\"\n provides a concise, informal legislative history of the\n Bankruptcy Reform Act of 1978 from Mr. Butler's\n perspective. It also discusses the creation and\n arrangement of these records and includes references to\n the Roman numeral numbering scheme employed by Butler's\n staff. This narrative is found in the first folder of\n the first box of bankruptcy materials(box 57). A second\n helpful narrative entitled \"The Establishment of the\n Commission\" states the reasons that impelled Congress to\n establish the Commission on Bankruptcy in June of 1970.\n This can be found in box 71 in the folder titled \"Mun.\n 5.\" Ken Klee's article on bankruptcy legislative (box\n 72) may also be of use in understanding events leading\n up to the 1978 act. The article is entitled, \"Congress\n and the Bankruptcy Act of 1976,\" and appeared in volume\n 61 of the \n American Bar Association\n Journal (October, 1975).","The \n general materials have been\n removed from the ring-binders, but the folders that now\n hold them are labeled with the Roman numeral\n corresponding to the binder in which they were formerly\n housed. Everything from 1971 research materials to the\n printed public law version of the 1978 Bankruptcy Reform\n Act can be found here. Books and pamphlets printed by\n the Government Office of Printing are found in Roman\n numeral sections I and III-IX. Included here are the\n Commission on Bankruptcy Laws Report, H.R. 10792, H.R.\n 16643, Hearings on H.R. 31 and H.R. 32, Hearings on S.\n 235, S. 236, H.R. 6, and oversized side-by-side\n comparisons of VI (H) and XIII of H.R. 31 and 32 and S.\n 2266 and H.R. 8200 (stored in box 75).","All of the \"Supplemental Legislation and Testimony\"\n is contained in 45 \"books\" and includes correspondence,\n notes and paste-ups of various sections of proposed\n versions of the bankruptcy bill. Section \"F,\" of XLIII\n \"Conference Materials\" (Box 61, Folder 9 from the\n general materials described above) contains the index to\n the 45 books. Much of the contents are reiterations of\n information from the \"Roman numeral\" notebooks arranged\n for quick reference. Testimony is arranged by bill\n section.","The Ken Klee's bankruptcy files were created while\n Klee served as associate counsel for the Subcommittee on\n Civil and Constitutional Rights of the House Committee\n on the Judiciary. They are 4 cu. ft. in extent and are\n divided into three sections: uniform bankruptcy file,\n municipal bankruptcy file (MUN), and bankruptcy act\n subject files. An index to Klee's files is contained in\n Section \"E\" of XLIII \"Conference Materials\" (Box 61,\n Folder 9). The Uniform Bankruptcy Files are arranged\n numerically beginning with the number 102 and contain\n statements, testimonies, correspondence, memoranda,\n drafts and other relevant materials regarding the\n proposed bankruptcy rules. The Municipal Bankruptcy File\n is arranged numerically. The files are designated MUN\n with a corresponding number. These files also contain\n drafts, testimonies, statements, memorandums and\n reports. Klee's Bankruptcy Subject Files are arranged\n alphabetically. Included here (under 'g') is general\n correspondence from 1973-1978.","#I - LII","(A) \n March 19-June 14, 1971 \n September 15,16-November 15, 1971 \n December 13-January 30,31, 1972 \n April 10-May 1, 1972 \n June 12-September 11-12, 1972 \n October 9-10, 1972 \n November 13-14, 1972 \n December 4-5, 1972","(B) \n December 4-5, 1972 \n January 15-16, 1973 \n February 22-24, 1973 \n March 15-17, 1973 \n April 12-14, 1973 \n June 7-12, 1973","(A) \n (B) \n (C)","(A) \n (B) \n (C)","(E) \n (F) \n (G) \n (H) -- Side-by-Side of H.R. 31 and H.R.\n 32 (2 copies) September 2, 1975. In oversize\n carton 49.","(A) \n (B) \n (C)","(A) \n (B)","(A)","(B) \n (C)","(A) \n (B)","Source 13 260;263 \n Source 14 322-323 \n Source 15 336 \n Source 20 412-415 \n Source 23A 502 \n Source 50 549;554-555 \n Source 30 587-588 \n Source 31 595-596 \n Source 33 612-613","Books for S. 2266 and H.R. 8200; H.R. 31 and H.R. 32\n ","Published by San Diego Urban League,\n Inc.","Enclosed copy of RRRA and RRRRA","Legal Services Corporation\n Act papers consist of one cu. ft. of materials\n concerning the authorization of funding for this entity\n for the fiscal years 1982-1984. Included here are: the\n authorization bill, itself; correspondence; \"discussion\n papers\"; press clippings; transcripts of testimony and\n hearing proceedings. (The one file of material about the\n re-authorization of the Department of Justice follows\n the Legal Services papers.)","The \n Voting Rights Act Extension series comprises Butler's legislative papers as a member of the House Judiciary Committee during the consideration of the extension of this Act.","The \n National Bankruptcy Review\n Commission papers are from Butler's service as a\n member of that body from 1995-1997. These 16 cu. ft. of\n materials include: correspondence; meeting minutes;\n memoranda and documents distributed to commission\n members; and the report of the commission and drafts of\n that report.","Box 91 includes audio cassette of\n \"discharge/reaffirmation hearing,\" 1997.","Bicentennial of American Revolution Flag; Bicentennial Medal, 1976; American College of Bankruptcy Commendation plaque, March 14, 1998.","Navy hat, brass buttons, insignia, pins and dog tags.","Contents: 24\"x36 inch photo of Butler, c. 1961; House Concurrent Resolution 672, July 1, 1976; Washington and Lee University Honorary Doctor of Laws Diploma, June 1, 1978; Birthday card from staff, June 2, 1973; National Small Business Association Certificate of Recognition, October 1978; certificate, Governor George Allen (Virgini) naming Butler to Governor's Advisory Council on Self-Determination and Federalism, November 14, 1994.","There are no restrictions.","English"],"unitid_tesim":["004"],"normalized_title_ssm":["M. 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Following service in the Navy in World War II,\n he received his A.B. from the University of Richmond\n in 1948 and his J.D. from the University of Virginia Law\n School in 1950. Butler married June Nolde in 1950. This union\n produced four sons: Manley, Henry, James and Marshall.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eButler served as the City of Roanoke Representative in\n 1960-1961. In 1962 he was elected to the Virginia House of\n Delegates. He was elected Minority Leader in 1966, a position\n he held until 1972 when he was elected to the 92nd U.S.\n Congress from the 6th District of Virginia. Butler served the\n 6th District for a decade. While serving on the Judiciary\n Committee, Butler participated in the impeachment action\n against President Richard M. Nixon during the summer of 1974.\n In the aftermath of Nixon's resignation, Butler was involved\n in the confirmation hearings of Gerald R. Ford and Nelson\n Rockefeller to serve as President and Vice President\n respectively. Butler was a principal architect of the\n Bankruptcy Reform Act of 1978. He was also a member of the\n Committee on Government Operations. In retirement, Butler\n served on the National Bankruptcy Review Commission in the\n years 1995-1997. \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA partner in the firm of Woods, Rogers \u0026amp; Hazelgrove of\n Roanoke, Virginia from 1983-1998, Mr. Butler held memberships\n in the American Bar Association, the Virginia State Bar, the\n Roanoke Bar Association, the American College of Bankruptcy,\n the Raven Society, the Order of the Coif, and the Board of\n Directors of Dominion Bank Shares Corp of Roanoke. He was also\n a Fellow of the American Bar Foundation and a Director of the\n American Bankruptcy Institute. His fraternal organization\n affiliations include Phi Beta Kappa, Tau Kappa Alpha, Omicron\n Delta Kappa and Phi Gamma Delta.\u003c/p\u003e"],"bioghist_heading_ssm":["Biographical/Historical Information"],"bioghist_tesim":["Manley Caldwell Butler was born June 2, 1925 in Roanoke,\n Virginia, where he lived most of his life until his death on \n July 28, 2014. Following service in the Navy in World War II,\n he received his A.B. from the University of Richmond\n in 1948 and his J.D. from the University of Virginia Law\n School in 1950. Butler married June Nolde in 1950. This union\n produced four sons: Manley, Henry, James and Marshall.","Butler served as the City of Roanoke Representative in\n 1960-1961. In 1962 he was elected to the Virginia House of\n Delegates. He was elected Minority Leader in 1966, a position\n he held until 1972 when he was elected to the 92nd U.S.\n Congress from the 6th District of Virginia. Butler served the\n 6th District for a decade. While serving on the Judiciary\n Committee, Butler participated in the impeachment action\n against President Richard M. Nixon during the summer of 1974.\n In the aftermath of Nixon's resignation, Butler was involved\n in the confirmation hearings of Gerald R. Ford and Nelson\n Rockefeller to serve as President and Vice President\n respectively. Butler was a principal architect of the\n Bankruptcy Reform Act of 1978. He was also a member of the\n Committee on Government Operations. In retirement, Butler\n served on the National Bankruptcy Review Commission in the\n years 1995-1997. ","A partner in the firm of Woods, Rogers \u0026 Hazelgrove of\n Roanoke, Virginia from 1983-1998, Mr. Butler held memberships\n in the American Bar Association, the Virginia State Bar, the\n Roanoke Bar Association, the American College of Bankruptcy,\n the Raven Society, the Order of the Coif, and the Board of\n Directors of Dominion Bank Shares Corp of Roanoke. He was also\n a Fellow of the American Bar Foundation and a Director of the\n American Bankruptcy Institute. His fraternal organization\n affiliations include Phi Beta Kappa, Tau Kappa Alpha, Omicron\n Delta Kappa and Phi Gamma Delta."],"prefercite_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eM. Caldwell Butler Papers, 1945-2006, Ms 004,\n Lewis F. Powell, Jr. Archives, Washington and Lee\n University School of Law, Lexington, VA\u003c/p\u003e"],"prefercite_tesim":["M. Caldwell Butler Papers, 1945-2006, Ms 004,\n Lewis F. Powell, Jr. Archives, Washington and Lee\n University School of Law, Lexington, VA"],"scopecontent_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThe \n M(anley)Caldwell Butler\n Papers consist of approximately 96 cu. ft. of materials from 1925-2006. Most of the papers cover the periods 1972-1982 and 1995-1997. The papers are divided\n into seventeen series: June Nolde Butler papers; correspondence and subject files; military service; appointment calendars; campaigns; scrapbooks, clippings and photos; speeches; newsletters, press\n releases, radio reports and weekly reports; voting record;\n constituency correspondence; confirmation of Gerald R. Ford as\n Vice President; impeachment of President\n Richard M. Nixon; Bankruptcy Reform Act of 1978;\n Legal Services Corporation; re-authorization of the Department of Justice\n for the Fiscal Year 1982; Voting Rights Act extension; the National Bankruptcy Review\n Commission, 1995-1997; and Artifacts, 1944-1998. With the exceptions of the first six series and National\n Bankruptcy Review Commission materials, these papers were\n generated during Butler's terms as U. S. Representative for\n the 6th Congressional District of Virginia, 1972 -1982 (93rd\n Congress - 97th Congress).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe refinement levels of processing are mixed. The gradual donation of materials over a period \n of 40 years is chiefly the cause. The Nixon Impeachment and Bankruptcy Reform Act of 1978 materials \n are mostly described down to the folder level. The National Bankruptcy Review Commission materials arrived largely self-arranged. \n Most other areas of the colleciton, however, are largely unprocessed beyond being sorted into tentative series.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis is particularly true of additions made in 2018 through the estate of Butler's son, James. This has resulted in a temporary \n box renumbering in boxes 1-7. There is also a box of artifacts added at the end of all of the papers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBiographical materials,general correspondence, correspondence with parents and siblings,Letters, \n invitations, menus, calendars, subject files, photos, clippings, artifacts, photos scrapbook (1933-1950)\n and correspondence (1947-1950) with her future husband, M Caldwell Butler\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNixon Impeachment historical studies; Correspondence re publication of book, Stonewall Jim;\n GOP Gala, 2001; certificates of award and merit; records of naval service; education records \n and related materials.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSubjects include: United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit; \n National Bankruptcy Review Commission; Sarah Butler Memorial; Sam Garrison Bar Discipline; \n Bankruptcy Law; Watergate/Impeachment; Susan Aheron; Butler for Governor; Newspaper Items; \n Legal Services Corporation; The Miller Center; and Virginia Cares.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence, subject files, surveys, election returns, and memorabilia\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIn addition to campaign and general coverage, these scrapbooks treat: editorials mentioning Butler; economic conferences; farm conferences; HUD and FMHA conferences; Lynchburg Weather Station; minority business conferences.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMost of these appear to have been kept by his Congressional Office Staff. They document his day-to-day official activities.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThese also document his official activities.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe recordings range from appearances on \u003ctitle render=\"italic\"\u003eFace the Nation \u003c/title\u003e to local forums.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere is a variety of publications on a variety of mainly political topics. forms of materials include trade books, government documents, brochures, and magazinies. \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eSpeeches\u003c/emph\u003e(1964-2001; bulk 1973-1982) are also\n arranged chronologically. The audience, occasion, and\n location are usually noted. From January 1976 onward, a\n topical index is present in addition to the\n chronological listings that are available for all of the\n years. Some nine speeches are missing from the original\n inventory, while others not on that listing were found\n during processing and added to the finding aid.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eNewsletters\u003c/emph\u003e(1973-1981)were\n generated by Congressman Butler's staff to keep citizens\n of the Sixth District of Virginia informed on issues\n before the House, and on the activities of his office.\n The newsletters(N:) are arranged chronologically with an\n alphabetical reference index that has been updated\n through October 1, 1982. This index includes references\n to Radio Reports(RR#) and Weekly Reports(WR#). News\n (Press) Releases (1972-1982), Radio Reports (1973-1978),\n and Weekly Reports (1979-1982) are arranged\n chronologically and their indices provide brief\n summaries of the topics discussed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe \n \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eMembers Personal Voting\n Record\u003c/emph\u003ecovers the period 1973-1982 (93rd Congress\n First Session to the 97th Congress Second Session). Each\n Congress' voting record is divided into two sessions. A\n cumulative record for each Congress is also present.\n Included here are: roll numbers, dates, daily record\n page number, description, and members response. Each\n record contains a roll call subject guide and an index\n to the voting record. Although Butler began his\n congressional term with the 92nd Congress, there is no\n personal voting record for this time.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe \n \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eConstituency Correspondence\u003c/emph\u003eis\n almost exclusively from the period of the impeachment of\n Richard M. Nixon. The letters are divided into those\n favoring impeachment and those opposed to this action.\n There is also correspondence in reaction to the pardon\n of Nixon by President Gerald R. Ford.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMaterials concerning the \n \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eConfirmation of Gerald R. Ford as\n Vice President\u003c/emph\u003einclude: correspondence, memoranda,\n a briefing book, and transcriptions of testimony and\n proceedings during the hearings.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFord medical and financial records are closed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCongressman Butler sat on the House Judiciary\n committee that investigated and voted on the \n \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eimpeachment of President Richard M.\n Nixon\u003c/emph\u003e. The impeachment materials are 15 cu. ft.\n in extent and include: narratives about the Watergate\n break-in and related events, and about the bombing of\n Cambodia; interview transcripts and recorded testimony\n of persons involved in Watergate activities; general\n impeachment inquiry materials(committee notebooks,\n personal notes, etc.); reports on White House\n Surveillance activities; Department of Justice/ITT\n Litigation; Milk Producers Cooperatives investigations;\n papers re the Judiciary Committee's \"Fragile Coalition\";\n general correspondence and memoranda; and printed\n materials. (See also, the series of constituent\n correspondence that precedes the impeachment materials.\n Butler kept an audio diary during the impeachment\n process, and these cassette recordings are included\n here, as are his written notes from this time. Also\n present are partial transcripts of an oral history\n project on the \"Fragile Coalition\" conducted in\n 1974.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eUnrevised and unedited\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe \n \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003ePrinted Materials\u003c/emph\u003eare primarily government documents\n from the period of the impeachment of\n Richard M. Nixon. Below is an enumeration of the titles present from donor gifts 1980-1983. Titles from additions, 1985-2015 are present in these boxes, but not yet listed below.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBook I: December 2, 1971 - June 17,\n 1972\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBook I: June 19, 1972 - March 1, 1974 \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eBook II: June 17, 1972 - February 9,\n 1973\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBook III: June 20, 1972 - March 22,\n 1973\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBook IV: March 22, 1973 - April 30,\n 1973\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAppendix: Political Matters Memoranda \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eI: Presidential Statements \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eII: Papers in Criminal Cases \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eIII: Supplementary Documents \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eIV: Political Matters memoranda\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eExecutive Session Hearings Before the Select\n Committee on Presidential Campaign Activities\n of the United States Senate, November\n 13,14,15,16, December 4, 11, 1973.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere are three distinct audio recording projects documenting the days of the House\n Judiciary Committee Nixon Impeachment proceedings in July 1974. The first was part audio\n diary and part interviews involving Rep. Butler and reporter Wayne Woodlief. This project \n ran from May to early August 1974, with most of the recordings being from July. The recordings\n of most of these sessions -- some are missing; it is thought to be few, but there is no definitive \n way of knowing -- are in audio cassettes housed in box 55. There is a user set of CDs of these \n recordings in that box, and there are digital audio files of these tapes housed in Box on the Washington and Lee University \n network. There is also an incomplete set of transcripts for this project in box 54. Woodlief \n spoke of trying to produce a book at least partially based on these tapes. He sent such a proposal\n to Butler on July 10, 1975. The only printed product to emerge from these recordings, however, was \n an extensive article in the July 27, 1975 edition of The \u003ctitle render=\"italic\"\u003eRoanoke Times\u003c/title\u003e, \n also published in the \u003ctitle render=\"italic\"\u003eVirginian-Pilot\u003c/title\u003e of the same date.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe second recordings were much more limited in scope. On July 31, 1974, Butler sat down with\n Thomas Mooney, a Judiciary Committee attorney, to record on audiotape, their recollection of \n events as they unfolded on July 22-24. Their primary aim seems to have been capturing the \n drafting of the articles of impeachment. There are transcripts -- again just how complete cannot\n be determined, but not any recordings themselves.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe third project was the most ambitious. It was an attempt to record the Nixon Impeachment memories\n of all of the members of the so-called Fragile Coalition, those Democratic and Republican members of \n the House Judiciary Committee who held the swing votes on impeachment. They came together to draft \n articles of impeachment on which they could all vote \"yes\".\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe organizers of this project were Thomas Mooney Sr., Stephen Lynch, and Father Donald Shea, longtime chair\n of the history department at St. Joseph College (Indiana). Mooney was a St. Joseph College alumnus and friend\n of Father Shea. The project was funded by St. Joseph College, and other private funds were solicited, as well.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe project had two parts. In the first part, the organizers interviewed members of the coalition \n individually in their Washington Congressional offices in June 1975. This was followed by a retreat on Hilton Head \n Island, SC in July 1975. Extensive aide memoire printed materials were gathered and given to each member of the coalition \n in advance. The recordings made there were in panel format only, with all of the Fragile Coalition members present.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere are no recordings from this project in the Butler papers. There are transcripts -- once again, there is no\n telling how complete -- from both the individual interviews and the Hilton Head panels. There is a third category of\n transcripts, those with interviewees' corrections handwritten on transcriptions. These corrected copies are from both the \n individual and group sessions. Some of these transcripts were sent to Butler and the Powell Archives by the University\n of Maine's Fogler Library which houses the papers of Fragile Coalition member William Cohen.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eUnlike the printed materials that are found throughout the Impeachment series, these books and magazines\n are not government documents. There are copies of \u003ctitle render=\"italic\"\u003eTime, Newsweek,\u003c/title\u003e and\n \u003ctitle render=\"italic\"\u003eLife\u003c/title\u003e magazines from the time of the impeachment. There are also books and \n a college thesis giving retropective views on that period.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe \n \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eBankruptcy Materials\u003c/emph\u003eare 18\n cu. ft. of papers documenting Butler's work in the\n drafting and passage of the legislation popularly known\n as the Bankruptcy Reform Act of 1978. Forms of materials\n present include: minutes of the Bankruptcy Commission,\n markup books on various versions of bankruptcy bills,\n memoranda, briefing materials, meetings transcripts,\n hearing transcripts, conference materials, Congressional\n Record Notebooks, audio tapes of markup sessions, and\n supplemental information on bankruptcy legislation with\n relevant testimony.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis material was arranged by Butler's office into\n three major components: 1)general materials in\n ring-binder notebooks to which Roman Numerals were\n assigned; 2)\"Supplemental Materials: ... \" filed in\n \"books\" numbered 1-45; and, 3) Ken Klee's research\n materials. The arrangement of these materials is not\n easily grasped, but the donor has provided a \"road map.\"\n A Butler document from around 1980 entitled \"The\n Narrative History of the Bankruptcy Act Revision\"\n provides a concise, informal legislative history of the\n Bankruptcy Reform Act of 1978 from Mr. Butler's\n perspective. It also discusses the creation and\n arrangement of these records and includes references to\n the Roman numeral numbering scheme employed by Butler's\n staff. This narrative is found in the first folder of\n the first box of bankruptcy materials(box 57). A second\n helpful narrative entitled \"The Establishment of the\n Commission\" states the reasons that impelled Congress to\n establish the Commission on Bankruptcy in June of 1970.\n This can be found in box 71 in the folder titled \"Mun.\n 5.\" Ken Klee's article on bankruptcy legislative (box\n 72) may also be of use in understanding events leading\n up to the 1978 act. The article is entitled, \"Congress\n and the Bankruptcy Act of 1976,\" and appeared in volume\n 61 of the \n \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eAmerican Bar Association\n Journal\u003c/title\u003e(October, 1975).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe \n \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003egeneral materials\u003c/emph\u003ehave been\n removed from the ring-binders, but the folders that now\n hold them are labeled with the Roman numeral\n corresponding to the binder in which they were formerly\n housed. Everything from 1971 research materials to the\n printed public law version of the 1978 Bankruptcy Reform\n Act can be found here. Books and pamphlets printed by\n the Government Office of Printing are found in Roman\n numeral sections I and III-IX. Included here are the\n Commission on Bankruptcy Laws Report, H.R. 10792, H.R.\n 16643, Hearings on H.R. 31 and H.R. 32, Hearings on S.\n 235, S. 236, H.R. 6, and oversized side-by-side\n comparisons of VI (H) and XIII of H.R. 31 and 32 and S.\n 2266 and H.R. 8200 (stored in box 75).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAll of the \"Supplemental Legislation and Testimony\"\n is contained in 45 \"books\" and includes correspondence,\n notes and paste-ups of various sections of proposed\n versions of the bankruptcy bill. Section \"F,\" of XLIII\n \"Conference Materials\" (Box 61, Folder 9 from the\n general materials described above) contains the index to\n the 45 books. Much of the contents are reiterations of\n information from the \"Roman numeral\" notebooks arranged\n for quick reference. Testimony is arranged by bill\n section.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe Ken Klee's bankruptcy files were created while\n Klee served as associate counsel for the Subcommittee on\n Civil and Constitutional Rights of the House Committee\n on the Judiciary. They are 4 cu. ft. in extent and are\n divided into three sections: uniform bankruptcy file,\n municipal bankruptcy file (MUN), and bankruptcy act\n subject files. An index to Klee's files is contained in\n Section \"E\" of XLIII \"Conference Materials\" (Box 61,\n Folder 9). The Uniform Bankruptcy Files are arranged\n numerically beginning with the number 102 and contain\n statements, testimonies, correspondence, memoranda,\n drafts and other relevant materials regarding the\n proposed bankruptcy rules. The Municipal Bankruptcy File\n is arranged numerically. The files are designated MUN\n with a corresponding number. These files also contain\n drafts, testimonies, statements, memorandums and\n reports. Klee's Bankruptcy Subject Files are arranged\n alphabetically. Included here (under 'g') is general\n correspondence from 1973-1978.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e#I - LII\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e(A) \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eMarch 19-June 14, 1971 \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eSeptember 15,16-November 15, 1971 \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eDecember 13-January 30,31, 1972 \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eApril 10-May 1, 1972 \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eJune 12-September 11-12, 1972 \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eOctober 9-10, 1972 \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eNovember 13-14, 1972 \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eDecember 4-5, 1972\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e(B) \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eDecember 4-5, 1972 \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eJanuary 15-16, 1973 \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eFebruary 22-24, 1973 \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eMarch 15-17, 1973 \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eApril 12-14, 1973 \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eJune 7-12, 1973\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e(A) \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e(B) \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e(C)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e(A) \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e(B) \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e(C)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e(E) \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e(F) \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e(G) \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e(H) -- Side-by-Side of H.R. 31 and H.R.\n 32 (2 copies) September 2, 1975. In oversize\n carton 49.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e(A) \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e(B) \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e(C)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e(A) \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e(B)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e(A)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e(B) \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e(C)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e(A) \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e(B)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSource 13 260;263 \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eSource 14 322-323 \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eSource 15 336 \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eSource 20 412-415 \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eSource 23A 502 \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eSource 50 549;554-555 \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eSource 30 587-588 \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eSource 31 595-596 \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eSource 33 612-613\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBooks for S. 2266 and H.R. 8200; H.R. 31 and H.R. 32\n \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePublished by San Diego Urban League,\n Inc.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEnclosed copy of RRRA and RRRRA\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eLegal Services Corporation\n Act\u003c/emph\u003epapers consist of one cu. ft. of materials\n concerning the authorization of funding for this entity\n for the fiscal years 1982-1984. Included here are: the\n authorization bill, itself; correspondence; \"discussion\n papers\"; press clippings; transcripts of testimony and\n hearing proceedings. (The one file of material about the\n re-authorization of the Department of Justice follows\n the Legal Services papers.)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe \n \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eVoting Rights Act Extension\u003c/emph\u003eseries comprises Butler's legislative papers as a member of the House Judiciary Committee during the consideration of the extension of this Act.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe \n \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eNational Bankruptcy Review\n Commission\u003c/emph\u003epapers are from Butler's service as a\n member of that body from 1995-1997. These 16 cu. ft. of\n materials include: correspondence; meeting minutes;\n memoranda and documents distributed to commission\n members; and the report of the commission and drafts of\n that report.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBox 91 includes audio cassette of\n \"discharge/reaffirmation hearing,\" 1997.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBicentennial of American Revolution Flag; Bicentennial Medal, 1976; American College of Bankruptcy Commendation plaque, March 14, 1998.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNavy hat, brass buttons, insignia, pins and dog tags.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eContents: 24\"x36 inch photo of Butler, c. 1961; House Concurrent Resolution 672, July 1, 1976; Washington and Lee University Honorary Doctor of Laws Diploma, June 1, 1978; Birthday card from staff, June 2, 1973; National Small Business Association Certificate of Recognition, October 1978; certificate, Governor George Allen (Virgini) naming Butler to Governor's Advisory Council on Self-Determination and Federalism, November 14, 1994.\u003c/p\u003e"],"scopecontent_heading_ssm":["Scope and Content Information","Scope and Content\n "],"scopecontent_tesim":["The \n M(anley)Caldwell Butler\n Papers consist of approximately 96 cu. ft. of materials from 1925-2006. Most of the papers cover the periods 1972-1982 and 1995-1997. The papers are divided\n into seventeen series: June Nolde Butler papers; correspondence and subject files; military service; appointment calendars; campaigns; scrapbooks, clippings and photos; speeches; newsletters, press\n releases, radio reports and weekly reports; voting record;\n constituency correspondence; confirmation of Gerald R. Ford as\n Vice President; impeachment of President\n Richard M. Nixon; Bankruptcy Reform Act of 1978;\n Legal Services Corporation; re-authorization of the Department of Justice\n for the Fiscal Year 1982; Voting Rights Act extension; the National Bankruptcy Review\n Commission, 1995-1997; and Artifacts, 1944-1998. With the exceptions of the first six series and National\n Bankruptcy Review Commission materials, these papers were\n generated during Butler's terms as U. S. Representative for\n the 6th Congressional District of Virginia, 1972 -1982 (93rd\n Congress - 97th Congress).","The refinement levels of processing are mixed. The gradual donation of materials over a period \n of 40 years is chiefly the cause. The Nixon Impeachment and Bankruptcy Reform Act of 1978 materials \n are mostly described down to the folder level. The National Bankruptcy Review Commission materials arrived largely self-arranged. \n Most other areas of the colleciton, however, are largely unprocessed beyond being sorted into tentative series.","This is particularly true of additions made in 2018 through the estate of Butler's son, James. This has resulted in a temporary \n box renumbering in boxes 1-7. There is also a box of artifacts added at the end of all of the papers.","Biographical materials,general correspondence, correspondence with parents and siblings,Letters, \n invitations, menus, calendars, subject files, photos, clippings, artifacts, photos scrapbook (1933-1950)\n and correspondence (1947-1950) with her future husband, M Caldwell Butler","Nixon Impeachment historical studies; Correspondence re publication of book, Stonewall Jim;\n GOP Gala, 2001; certificates of award and merit; records of naval service; education records \n and related materials.","Subjects include: United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit; \n National Bankruptcy Review Commission; Sarah Butler Memorial; Sam Garrison Bar Discipline; \n Bankruptcy Law; Watergate/Impeachment; Susan Aheron; Butler for Governor; Newspaper Items; \n Legal Services Corporation; The Miller Center; and Virginia Cares.","Correspondence, subject files, surveys, election returns, and memorabilia","In addition to campaign and general coverage, these scrapbooks treat: editorials mentioning Butler; economic conferences; farm conferences; HUD and FMHA conferences; Lynchburg Weather Station; minority business conferences.","Most of these appear to have been kept by his Congressional Office Staff. They document his day-to-day official activities.","These also document his official activities.","The recordings range from appearances on Face the Nation to local forums.","There is a variety of publications on a variety of mainly political topics. forms of materials include trade books, government documents, brochures, and magazinies. ","Speeches (1964-2001; bulk 1973-1982) are also\n arranged chronologically. The audience, occasion, and\n location are usually noted. From January 1976 onward, a\n topical index is present in addition to the\n chronological listings that are available for all of the\n years. Some nine speeches are missing from the original\n inventory, while others not on that listing were found\n during processing and added to the finding aid.","Newsletters (1973-1981)were\n generated by Congressman Butler's staff to keep citizens\n of the Sixth District of Virginia informed on issues\n before the House, and on the activities of his office.\n The newsletters(N:) are arranged chronologically with an\n alphabetical reference index that has been updated\n through October 1, 1982. This index includes references\n to Radio Reports(RR#) and Weekly Reports(WR#). News\n (Press) Releases (1972-1982), Radio Reports (1973-1978),\n and Weekly Reports (1979-1982) are arranged\n chronologically and their indices provide brief\n summaries of the topics discussed.","The \n Members Personal Voting\n Record covers the period 1973-1982 (93rd Congress\n First Session to the 97th Congress Second Session). Each\n Congress' voting record is divided into two sessions. A\n cumulative record for each Congress is also present.\n Included here are: roll numbers, dates, daily record\n page number, description, and members response. Each\n record contains a roll call subject guide and an index\n to the voting record. Although Butler began his\n congressional term with the 92nd Congress, there is no\n personal voting record for this time.","The \n Constituency Correspondence is\n almost exclusively from the period of the impeachment of\n Richard M. Nixon. The letters are divided into those\n favoring impeachment and those opposed to this action.\n There is also correspondence in reaction to the pardon\n of Nixon by President Gerald R. Ford.","Materials concerning the \n Confirmation of Gerald R. Ford as\n Vice President include: correspondence, memoranda,\n a briefing book, and transcriptions of testimony and\n proceedings during the hearings.","Ford medical and financial records are closed.","Congressman Butler sat on the House Judiciary\n committee that investigated and voted on the \n impeachment of President Richard M.\n Nixon . The impeachment materials are 15 cu. ft.\n in extent and include: narratives about the Watergate\n break-in and related events, and about the bombing of\n Cambodia; interview transcripts and recorded testimony\n of persons involved in Watergate activities; general\n impeachment inquiry materials(committee notebooks,\n personal notes, etc.); reports on White House\n Surveillance activities; Department of Justice/ITT\n Litigation; Milk Producers Cooperatives investigations;\n papers re the Judiciary Committee's \"Fragile Coalition\";\n general correspondence and memoranda; and printed\n materials. (See also, the series of constituent\n correspondence that precedes the impeachment materials.\n Butler kept an audio diary during the impeachment\n process, and these cassette recordings are included\n here, as are his written notes from this time. Also\n present are partial transcripts of an oral history\n project on the \"Fragile Coalition\" conducted in\n 1974.","Unrevised and unedited","The \n Printed Materials are primarily government documents\n from the period of the impeachment of\n Richard M. Nixon. Below is an enumeration of the titles present from donor gifts 1980-1983. Titles from additions, 1985-2015 are present in these boxes, but not yet listed below.","Book I: December 2, 1971 - June 17,\n 1972","Book I: June 19, 1972 - March 1, 1974 \n Book II: June 17, 1972 - February 9,\n 1973","Book III: June 20, 1972 - March 22,\n 1973","Book IV: March 22, 1973 - April 30,\n 1973","Appendix: Political Matters Memoranda \n I: Presidential Statements \n II: Papers in Criminal Cases \n III: Supplementary Documents \n IV: Political Matters memoranda","Executive Session Hearings Before the Select\n Committee on Presidential Campaign Activities\n of the United States Senate, November\n 13,14,15,16, December 4, 11, 1973.","There are three distinct audio recording projects documenting the days of the House\n Judiciary Committee Nixon Impeachment proceedings in July 1974. The first was part audio\n diary and part interviews involving Rep. Butler and reporter Wayne Woodlief. This project \n ran from May to early August 1974, with most of the recordings being from July. The recordings\n of most of these sessions -- some are missing; it is thought to be few, but there is no definitive \n way of knowing -- are in audio cassettes housed in box 55. There is a user set of CDs of these \n recordings in that box, and there are digital audio files of these tapes housed in Box on the Washington and Lee University \n network. There is also an incomplete set of transcripts for this project in box 54. Woodlief \n spoke of trying to produce a book at least partially based on these tapes. He sent such a proposal\n to Butler on July 10, 1975. The only printed product to emerge from these recordings, however, was \n an extensive article in the July 27, 1975 edition of The Roanoke Times , \n also published in the Virginian-Pilot of the same date.","The second recordings were much more limited in scope. On July 31, 1974, Butler sat down with\n Thomas Mooney, a Judiciary Committee attorney, to record on audiotape, their recollection of \n events as they unfolded on July 22-24. Their primary aim seems to have been capturing the \n drafting of the articles of impeachment. There are transcripts -- again just how complete cannot\n be determined, but not any recordings themselves.","The third project was the most ambitious. It was an attempt to record the Nixon Impeachment memories\n of all of the members of the so-called Fragile Coalition, those Democratic and Republican members of \n the House Judiciary Committee who held the swing votes on impeachment. They came together to draft \n articles of impeachment on which they could all vote \"yes\".","The organizers of this project were Thomas Mooney Sr., Stephen Lynch, and Father Donald Shea, longtime chair\n of the history department at St. Joseph College (Indiana). Mooney was a St. Joseph College alumnus and friend\n of Father Shea. The project was funded by St. Joseph College, and other private funds were solicited, as well.","The project had two parts. In the first part, the organizers interviewed members of the coalition \n individually in their Washington Congressional offices in June 1975. This was followed by a retreat on Hilton Head \n Island, SC in July 1975. Extensive aide memoire printed materials were gathered and given to each member of the coalition \n in advance. The recordings made there were in panel format only, with all of the Fragile Coalition members present.","There are no recordings from this project in the Butler papers. There are transcripts -- once again, there is no\n telling how complete -- from both the individual interviews and the Hilton Head panels. There is a third category of\n transcripts, those with interviewees' corrections handwritten on transcriptions. These corrected copies are from both the \n individual and group sessions. Some of these transcripts were sent to Butler and the Powell Archives by the University\n of Maine's Fogler Library which houses the papers of Fragile Coalition member William Cohen.","Unlike the printed materials that are found throughout the Impeachment series, these books and magazines\n are not government documents. There are copies of Time, Newsweek, and\n Life magazines from the time of the impeachment. There are also books and \n a college thesis giving retropective views on that period.","The \n Bankruptcy Materials are 18\n cu. ft. of papers documenting Butler's work in the\n drafting and passage of the legislation popularly known\n as the Bankruptcy Reform Act of 1978. Forms of materials\n present include: minutes of the Bankruptcy Commission,\n markup books on various versions of bankruptcy bills,\n memoranda, briefing materials, meetings transcripts,\n hearing transcripts, conference materials, Congressional\n Record Notebooks, audio tapes of markup sessions, and\n supplemental information on bankruptcy legislation with\n relevant testimony.","This material was arranged by Butler's office into\n three major components: 1)general materials in\n ring-binder notebooks to which Roman Numerals were\n assigned; 2)\"Supplemental Materials: ... \" filed in\n \"books\" numbered 1-45; and, 3) Ken Klee's research\n materials. The arrangement of these materials is not\n easily grasped, but the donor has provided a \"road map.\"\n A Butler document from around 1980 entitled \"The\n Narrative History of the Bankruptcy Act Revision\"\n provides a concise, informal legislative history of the\n Bankruptcy Reform Act of 1978 from Mr. Butler's\n perspective. It also discusses the creation and\n arrangement of these records and includes references to\n the Roman numeral numbering scheme employed by Butler's\n staff. This narrative is found in the first folder of\n the first box of bankruptcy materials(box 57). A second\n helpful narrative entitled \"The Establishment of the\n Commission\" states the reasons that impelled Congress to\n establish the Commission on Bankruptcy in June of 1970.\n This can be found in box 71 in the folder titled \"Mun.\n 5.\" Ken Klee's article on bankruptcy legislative (box\n 72) may also be of use in understanding events leading\n up to the 1978 act. The article is entitled, \"Congress\n and the Bankruptcy Act of 1976,\" and appeared in volume\n 61 of the \n American Bar Association\n Journal (October, 1975).","The \n general materials have been\n removed from the ring-binders, but the folders that now\n hold them are labeled with the Roman numeral\n corresponding to the binder in which they were formerly\n housed. Everything from 1971 research materials to the\n printed public law version of the 1978 Bankruptcy Reform\n Act can be found here. Books and pamphlets printed by\n the Government Office of Printing are found in Roman\n numeral sections I and III-IX. Included here are the\n Commission on Bankruptcy Laws Report, H.R. 10792, H.R.\n 16643, Hearings on H.R. 31 and H.R. 32, Hearings on S.\n 235, S. 236, H.R. 6, and oversized side-by-side\n comparisons of VI (H) and XIII of H.R. 31 and 32 and S.\n 2266 and H.R. 8200 (stored in box 75).","All of the \"Supplemental Legislation and Testimony\"\n is contained in 45 \"books\" and includes correspondence,\n notes and paste-ups of various sections of proposed\n versions of the bankruptcy bill. Section \"F,\" of XLIII\n \"Conference Materials\" (Box 61, Folder 9 from the\n general materials described above) contains the index to\n the 45 books. Much of the contents are reiterations of\n information from the \"Roman numeral\" notebooks arranged\n for quick reference. Testimony is arranged by bill\n section.","The Ken Klee's bankruptcy files were created while\n Klee served as associate counsel for the Subcommittee on\n Civil and Constitutional Rights of the House Committee\n on the Judiciary. They are 4 cu. ft. in extent and are\n divided into three sections: uniform bankruptcy file,\n municipal bankruptcy file (MUN), and bankruptcy act\n subject files. An index to Klee's files is contained in\n Section \"E\" of XLIII \"Conference Materials\" (Box 61,\n Folder 9). The Uniform Bankruptcy Files are arranged\n numerically beginning with the number 102 and contain\n statements, testimonies, correspondence, memoranda,\n drafts and other relevant materials regarding the\n proposed bankruptcy rules. The Municipal Bankruptcy File\n is arranged numerically. The files are designated MUN\n with a corresponding number. These files also contain\n drafts, testimonies, statements, memorandums and\n reports. Klee's Bankruptcy Subject Files are arranged\n alphabetically. Included here (under 'g') is general\n correspondence from 1973-1978.","#I - LII","(A) \n March 19-June 14, 1971 \n September 15,16-November 15, 1971 \n December 13-January 30,31, 1972 \n April 10-May 1, 1972 \n June 12-September 11-12, 1972 \n October 9-10, 1972 \n November 13-14, 1972 \n December 4-5, 1972","(B) \n December 4-5, 1972 \n January 15-16, 1973 \n February 22-24, 1973 \n March 15-17, 1973 \n April 12-14, 1973 \n June 7-12, 1973","(A) \n (B) \n (C)","(A) \n (B) \n (C)","(E) \n (F) \n (G) \n (H) -- Side-by-Side of H.R. 31 and H.R.\n 32 (2 copies) September 2, 1975. In oversize\n carton 49.","(A) \n (B) \n (C)","(A) \n (B)","(A)","(B) \n (C)","(A) \n (B)","Source 13 260;263 \n Source 14 322-323 \n Source 15 336 \n Source 20 412-415 \n Source 23A 502 \n Source 50 549;554-555 \n Source 30 587-588 \n Source 31 595-596 \n Source 33 612-613","Books for S. 2266 and H.R. 8200; H.R. 31 and H.R. 32\n ","Published by San Diego Urban League,\n Inc.","Enclosed copy of RRRA and RRRRA","Legal Services Corporation\n Act papers consist of one cu. ft. of materials\n concerning the authorization of funding for this entity\n for the fiscal years 1982-1984. Included here are: the\n authorization bill, itself; correspondence; \"discussion\n papers\"; press clippings; transcripts of testimony and\n hearing proceedings. (The one file of material about the\n re-authorization of the Department of Justice follows\n the Legal Services papers.)","The \n Voting Rights Act Extension series comprises Butler's legislative papers as a member of the House Judiciary Committee during the consideration of the extension of this Act.","The \n National Bankruptcy Review\n Commission papers are from Butler's service as a\n member of that body from 1995-1997. These 16 cu. ft. of\n materials include: correspondence; meeting minutes;\n memoranda and documents distributed to commission\n members; and the report of the commission and drafts of\n that report.","Box 91 includes audio cassette of\n \"discharge/reaffirmation hearing,\" 1997.","Bicentennial of American Revolution Flag; Bicentennial Medal, 1976; American College of Bankruptcy Commendation plaque, March 14, 1998.","Navy hat, brass buttons, insignia, pins and dog tags.","Contents: 24\"x36 inch photo of Butler, c. 1961; House Concurrent Resolution 672, July 1, 1976; Washington and Lee University Honorary Doctor of Laws Diploma, June 1, 1978; Birthday card from staff, June 2, 1973; National Small Business Association Certificate of Recognition, October 1978; certificate, Governor George Allen (Virgini) naming Butler to Governor's Advisory Council on Self-Determination and Federalism, November 14, 1994."],"userestrict_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThere are no restrictions.\u003c/p\u003e"],"userestrict_heading_ssm":["Use Restrictions"],"userestrict_tesim":["There are no restrictions."],"language_ssim":["English"],"total_component_count_is":567,"online_item_count_is":0,"component_level_isim":[0],"sort_isi":0,"timestamp":"2026-05-20T15:09:15.002Z"}]}},"label":"Breadcrumbs"}}},"links":{"self":"https://arvasarchive.org/catalog/vilxwl_vilxwl00003_c16_c02_c01_c03"}},{"id":"vilxwl_vilxwl00003_c16_c02_c01_c02","type":"Item","attributes":{"title":"103: Preliminary Draft of\n Proposed Bankruptcy Rules and Official Forms\n under Chapter VIII of the Bankruptcy Act \n April 1975","breadcrumbs":{"id":"https://arvasarchive.org/catalog/vilxwl_vilxwl00003_c16_c02_c01_c02#breadcrumbs","type":"document_value","attributes":{"value":{"ref_ssi":"vilxwl_vilxwl00003_c16_c02_c01_c02","ref_ssm":["vilxwl_vilxwl00003_c16_c02_c01_c02"],"id":"vilxwl_vilxwl00003_c16_c02_c01_c02","ead_ssi":"vilxwl_vilxwl00003","_root_":"vilxwl_vilxwl00003","_nest_parent_":"vilxwl_vilxwl00003_c16_c02_c01","parent_ssi":"vilxwl_vilxwl00003_c16_c02_c01","parent_ssim":["vilxwl_vilxwl00003","vilxwl_vilxwl00003_c16","vilxwl_vilxwl00003_c16_c02","vilxwl_vilxwl00003_c16_c02_c01"],"parent_ids_ssim":["vilxwl_vilxwl00003","vilxwl_vilxwl00003_c16","vilxwl_vilxwl00003_c16_c02","vilxwl_vilxwl00003_c16_c02_c01"],"parent_unittitles_ssm":["M. 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Caldwell Butler Papers \n 1945-2006","This collection\n consists of ca. 93 cubic feet of materials.","The Ford medical and financial records are closed.","Manley Caldwell Butler was born June 2, 1925 in Roanoke,\n Virginia, where he lived most of his life until his death on \n July 28, 2014. Following service in the Navy in World War II,\n he received his A.B. from the University of Richmond\n in 1948 and his J.D. from the University of Virginia Law\n School in 1950. Butler married June Nolde in 1950. This union\n produced four sons: Manley, Henry, James and Marshall.","Butler served as the City of Roanoke Representative in\n 1960-1961. In 1962 he was elected to the Virginia House of\n Delegates. He was elected Minority Leader in 1966, a position\n he held until 1972 when he was elected to the 92nd U.S.\n Congress from the 6th District of Virginia. Butler served the\n 6th District for a decade. While serving on the Judiciary\n Committee, Butler participated in the impeachment action\n against President Richard M. Nixon during the summer of 1974.\n In the aftermath of Nixon's resignation, Butler was involved\n in the confirmation hearings of Gerald R. Ford and Nelson\n Rockefeller to serve as President and Vice President\n respectively. Butler was a principal architect of the\n Bankruptcy Reform Act of 1978. He was also a member of the\n Committee on Government Operations. In retirement, Butler\n served on the National Bankruptcy Review Commission in the\n years 1995-1997. ","A partner in the firm of Woods, Rogers \u0026 Hazelgrove of\n Roanoke, Virginia from 1983-1998, Mr. Butler held memberships\n in the American Bar Association, the Virginia State Bar, the\n Roanoke Bar Association, the American College of Bankruptcy,\n the Raven Society, the Order of the Coif, and the Board of\n Directors of Dominion Bank Shares Corp of Roanoke. He was also\n a Fellow of the American Bar Foundation and a Director of the\n American Bankruptcy Institute. His fraternal organization\n affiliations include Phi Beta Kappa, Tau Kappa Alpha, Omicron\n Delta Kappa and Phi Gamma Delta.","The \n M(anley)Caldwell Butler\n Papers consist of approximately 96 cu. ft. of materials from 1925-2006. Most of the papers cover the periods 1972-1982 and 1995-1997. The papers are divided\n into seventeen series: June Nolde Butler papers; correspondence and subject files; military service; appointment calendars; campaigns; scrapbooks, clippings and photos; speeches; newsletters, press\n releases, radio reports and weekly reports; voting record;\n constituency correspondence; confirmation of Gerald R. Ford as\n Vice President; impeachment of President\n Richard M. Nixon; Bankruptcy Reform Act of 1978;\n Legal Services Corporation; re-authorization of the Department of Justice\n for the Fiscal Year 1982; Voting Rights Act extension; the National Bankruptcy Review\n Commission, 1995-1997; and Artifacts, 1944-1998. With the exceptions of the first six series and National\n Bankruptcy Review Commission materials, these papers were\n generated during Butler's terms as U. S. Representative for\n the 6th Congressional District of Virginia, 1972 -1982 (93rd\n Congress - 97th Congress).","The refinement levels of processing are mixed. The gradual donation of materials over a period \n of 40 years is chiefly the cause. The Nixon Impeachment and Bankruptcy Reform Act of 1978 materials \n are mostly described down to the folder level. The National Bankruptcy Review Commission materials arrived largely self-arranged. \n Most other areas of the colleciton, however, are largely unprocessed beyond being sorted into tentative series.","This is particularly true of additions made in 2018 through the estate of Butler's son, James. This has resulted in a temporary \n box renumbering in boxes 1-7. There is also a box of artifacts added at the end of all of the papers.","Biographical materials,general correspondence, correspondence with parents and siblings,Letters, \n invitations, menus, calendars, subject files, photos, clippings, artifacts, photos scrapbook (1933-1950)\n and correspondence (1947-1950) with her future husband, M Caldwell Butler","Nixon Impeachment historical studies; Correspondence re publication of book, Stonewall Jim;\n GOP Gala, 2001; certificates of award and merit; records of naval service; education records \n and related materials.","Subjects include: United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit; \n National Bankruptcy Review Commission; Sarah Butler Memorial; Sam Garrison Bar Discipline; \n Bankruptcy Law; Watergate/Impeachment; Susan Aheron; Butler for Governor; Newspaper Items; \n Legal Services Corporation; The Miller Center; and Virginia Cares.","Correspondence, subject files, surveys, election returns, and memorabilia","In addition to campaign and general coverage, these scrapbooks treat: editorials mentioning Butler; economic conferences; farm conferences; HUD and FMHA conferences; Lynchburg Weather Station; minority business conferences.","Most of these appear to have been kept by his Congressional Office Staff. They document his day-to-day official activities.","These also document his official activities.","The recordings range from appearances on Face the Nation to local forums.","There is a variety of publications on a variety of mainly political topics. forms of materials include trade books, government documents, brochures, and magazinies. ","Speeches (1964-2001; bulk 1973-1982) are also\n arranged chronologically. The audience, occasion, and\n location are usually noted. From January 1976 onward, a\n topical index is present in addition to the\n chronological listings that are available for all of the\n years. Some nine speeches are missing from the original\n inventory, while others not on that listing were found\n during processing and added to the finding aid.","Newsletters (1973-1981)were\n generated by Congressman Butler's staff to keep citizens\n of the Sixth District of Virginia informed on issues\n before the House, and on the activities of his office.\n The newsletters(N:) are arranged chronologically with an\n alphabetical reference index that has been updated\n through October 1, 1982. This index includes references\n to Radio Reports(RR#) and Weekly Reports(WR#). News\n (Press) Releases (1972-1982), Radio Reports (1973-1978),\n and Weekly Reports (1979-1982) are arranged\n chronologically and their indices provide brief\n summaries of the topics discussed.","The \n Members Personal Voting\n Record covers the period 1973-1982 (93rd Congress\n First Session to the 97th Congress Second Session). Each\n Congress' voting record is divided into two sessions. A\n cumulative record for each Congress is also present.\n Included here are: roll numbers, dates, daily record\n page number, description, and members response. Each\n record contains a roll call subject guide and an index\n to the voting record. Although Butler began his\n congressional term with the 92nd Congress, there is no\n personal voting record for this time.","The \n Constituency Correspondence is\n almost exclusively from the period of the impeachment of\n Richard M. Nixon. The letters are divided into those\n favoring impeachment and those opposed to this action.\n There is also correspondence in reaction to the pardon\n of Nixon by President Gerald R. Ford.","Materials concerning the \n Confirmation of Gerald R. Ford as\n Vice President include: correspondence, memoranda,\n a briefing book, and transcriptions of testimony and\n proceedings during the hearings.","Ford medical and financial records are closed.","Congressman Butler sat on the House Judiciary\n committee that investigated and voted on the \n impeachment of President Richard M.\n Nixon . The impeachment materials are 15 cu. ft.\n in extent and include: narratives about the Watergate\n break-in and related events, and about the bombing of\n Cambodia; interview transcripts and recorded testimony\n of persons involved in Watergate activities; general\n impeachment inquiry materials(committee notebooks,\n personal notes, etc.); reports on White House\n Surveillance activities; Department of Justice/ITT\n Litigation; Milk Producers Cooperatives investigations;\n papers re the Judiciary Committee's \"Fragile Coalition\";\n general correspondence and memoranda; and printed\n materials. (See also, the series of constituent\n correspondence that precedes the impeachment materials.\n Butler kept an audio diary during the impeachment\n process, and these cassette recordings are included\n here, as are his written notes from this time. Also\n present are partial transcripts of an oral history\n project on the \"Fragile Coalition\" conducted in\n 1974.","Unrevised and unedited","The \n Printed Materials are primarily government documents\n from the period of the impeachment of\n Richard M. Nixon. Below is an enumeration of the titles present from donor gifts 1980-1983. Titles from additions, 1985-2015 are present in these boxes, but not yet listed below.","Book I: December 2, 1971 - June 17,\n 1972","Book I: June 19, 1972 - March 1, 1974 \n Book II: June 17, 1972 - February 9,\n 1973","Book III: June 20, 1972 - March 22,\n 1973","Book IV: March 22, 1973 - April 30,\n 1973","Appendix: Political Matters Memoranda \n I: Presidential Statements \n II: Papers in Criminal Cases \n III: Supplementary Documents \n IV: Political Matters memoranda","Executive Session Hearings Before the Select\n Committee on Presidential Campaign Activities\n of the United States Senate, November\n 13,14,15,16, December 4, 11, 1973.","There are three distinct audio recording projects documenting the days of the House\n Judiciary Committee Nixon Impeachment proceedings in July 1974. The first was part audio\n diary and part interviews involving Rep. Butler and reporter Wayne Woodlief. This project \n ran from May to early August 1974, with most of the recordings being from July. The recordings\n of most of these sessions -- some are missing; it is thought to be few, but there is no definitive \n way of knowing -- are in audio cassettes housed in box 55. There is a user set of CDs of these \n recordings in that box, and there are digital audio files of these tapes housed in Box on the Washington and Lee University \n network. There is also an incomplete set of transcripts for this project in box 54. Woodlief \n spoke of trying to produce a book at least partially based on these tapes. He sent such a proposal\n to Butler on July 10, 1975. The only printed product to emerge from these recordings, however, was \n an extensive article in the July 27, 1975 edition of The Roanoke Times , \n also published in the Virginian-Pilot of the same date.","The second recordings were much more limited in scope. On July 31, 1974, Butler sat down with\n Thomas Mooney, a Judiciary Committee attorney, to record on audiotape, their recollection of \n events as they unfolded on July 22-24. Their primary aim seems to have been capturing the \n drafting of the articles of impeachment. There are transcripts -- again just how complete cannot\n be determined, but not any recordings themselves.","The third project was the most ambitious. It was an attempt to record the Nixon Impeachment memories\n of all of the members of the so-called Fragile Coalition, those Democratic and Republican members of \n the House Judiciary Committee who held the swing votes on impeachment. They came together to draft \n articles of impeachment on which they could all vote \"yes\".","The organizers of this project were Thomas Mooney Sr., Stephen Lynch, and Father Donald Shea, longtime chair\n of the history department at St. Joseph College (Indiana). Mooney was a St. Joseph College alumnus and friend\n of Father Shea. The project was funded by St. Joseph College, and other private funds were solicited, as well.","The project had two parts. In the first part, the organizers interviewed members of the coalition \n individually in their Washington Congressional offices in June 1975. This was followed by a retreat on Hilton Head \n Island, SC in July 1975. Extensive aide memoire printed materials were gathered and given to each member of the coalition \n in advance. The recordings made there were in panel format only, with all of the Fragile Coalition members present.","There are no recordings from this project in the Butler papers. There are transcripts -- once again, there is no\n telling how complete -- from both the individual interviews and the Hilton Head panels. There is a third category of\n transcripts, those with interviewees' corrections handwritten on transcriptions. These corrected copies are from both the \n individual and group sessions. Some of these transcripts were sent to Butler and the Powell Archives by the University\n of Maine's Fogler Library which houses the papers of Fragile Coalition member William Cohen.","Unlike the printed materials that are found throughout the Impeachment series, these books and magazines\n are not government documents. There are copies of Time, Newsweek, and\n Life magazines from the time of the impeachment. There are also books and \n a college thesis giving retropective views on that period.","The \n Bankruptcy Materials are 18\n cu. ft. of papers documenting Butler's work in the\n drafting and passage of the legislation popularly known\n as the Bankruptcy Reform Act of 1978. Forms of materials\n present include: minutes of the Bankruptcy Commission,\n markup books on various versions of bankruptcy bills,\n memoranda, briefing materials, meetings transcripts,\n hearing transcripts, conference materials, Congressional\n Record Notebooks, audio tapes of markup sessions, and\n supplemental information on bankruptcy legislation with\n relevant testimony.","This material was arranged by Butler's office into\n three major components: 1)general materials in\n ring-binder notebooks to which Roman Numerals were\n assigned; 2)\"Supplemental Materials: ... \" filed in\n \"books\" numbered 1-45; and, 3) Ken Klee's research\n materials. The arrangement of these materials is not\n easily grasped, but the donor has provided a \"road map.\"\n A Butler document from around 1980 entitled \"The\n Narrative History of the Bankruptcy Act Revision\"\n provides a concise, informal legislative history of the\n Bankruptcy Reform Act of 1978 from Mr. Butler's\n perspective. It also discusses the creation and\n arrangement of these records and includes references to\n the Roman numeral numbering scheme employed by Butler's\n staff. This narrative is found in the first folder of\n the first box of bankruptcy materials(box 57). A second\n helpful narrative entitled \"The Establishment of the\n Commission\" states the reasons that impelled Congress to\n establish the Commission on Bankruptcy in June of 1970.\n This can be found in box 71 in the folder titled \"Mun.\n 5.\" Ken Klee's article on bankruptcy legislative (box\n 72) may also be of use in understanding events leading\n up to the 1978 act. The article is entitled, \"Congress\n and the Bankruptcy Act of 1976,\" and appeared in volume\n 61 of the \n American Bar Association\n Journal (October, 1975).","The \n general materials have been\n removed from the ring-binders, but the folders that now\n hold them are labeled with the Roman numeral\n corresponding to the binder in which they were formerly\n housed. Everything from 1971 research materials to the\n printed public law version of the 1978 Bankruptcy Reform\n Act can be found here. Books and pamphlets printed by\n the Government Office of Printing are found in Roman\n numeral sections I and III-IX. Included here are the\n Commission on Bankruptcy Laws Report, H.R. 10792, H.R.\n 16643, Hearings on H.R. 31 and H.R. 32, Hearings on S.\n 235, S. 236, H.R. 6, and oversized side-by-side\n comparisons of VI (H) and XIII of H.R. 31 and 32 and S.\n 2266 and H.R. 8200 (stored in box 75).","All of the \"Supplemental Legislation and Testimony\"\n is contained in 45 \"books\" and includes correspondence,\n notes and paste-ups of various sections of proposed\n versions of the bankruptcy bill. Section \"F,\" of XLIII\n \"Conference Materials\" (Box 61, Folder 9 from the\n general materials described above) contains the index to\n the 45 books. Much of the contents are reiterations of\n information from the \"Roman numeral\" notebooks arranged\n for quick reference. Testimony is arranged by bill\n section.","The Ken Klee's bankruptcy files were created while\n Klee served as associate counsel for the Subcommittee on\n Civil and Constitutional Rights of the House Committee\n on the Judiciary. They are 4 cu. ft. in extent and are\n divided into three sections: uniform bankruptcy file,\n municipal bankruptcy file (MUN), and bankruptcy act\n subject files. An index to Klee's files is contained in\n Section \"E\" of XLIII \"Conference Materials\" (Box 61,\n Folder 9). The Uniform Bankruptcy Files are arranged\n numerically beginning with the number 102 and contain\n statements, testimonies, correspondence, memoranda,\n drafts and other relevant materials regarding the\n proposed bankruptcy rules. The Municipal Bankruptcy File\n is arranged numerically. The files are designated MUN\n with a corresponding number. These files also contain\n drafts, testimonies, statements, memorandums and\n reports. Klee's Bankruptcy Subject Files are arranged\n alphabetically. Included here (under 'g') is general\n correspondence from 1973-1978.","#I - LII","(A) \n March 19-June 14, 1971 \n September 15,16-November 15, 1971 \n December 13-January 30,31, 1972 \n April 10-May 1, 1972 \n June 12-September 11-12, 1972 \n October 9-10, 1972 \n November 13-14, 1972 \n December 4-5, 1972","(B) \n December 4-5, 1972 \n January 15-16, 1973 \n February 22-24, 1973 \n March 15-17, 1973 \n April 12-14, 1973 \n June 7-12, 1973","(A) \n (B) \n (C)","(A) \n (B) \n (C)","(E) \n (F) \n (G) \n (H) -- Side-by-Side of H.R. 31 and H.R.\n 32 (2 copies) September 2, 1975. In oversize\n carton 49.","(A) \n (B) \n (C)","(A) \n (B)","(A)","(B) \n (C)","(A) \n (B)","Source 13 260;263 \n Source 14 322-323 \n Source 15 336 \n Source 20 412-415 \n Source 23A 502 \n Source 50 549;554-555 \n Source 30 587-588 \n Source 31 595-596 \n Source 33 612-613","Books for S. 2266 and H.R. 8200; H.R. 31 and H.R. 32\n ","Published by San Diego Urban League,\n Inc.","Enclosed copy of RRRA and RRRRA","Legal Services Corporation\n Act papers consist of one cu. ft. of materials\n concerning the authorization of funding for this entity\n for the fiscal years 1982-1984. Included here are: the\n authorization bill, itself; correspondence; \"discussion\n papers\"; press clippings; transcripts of testimony and\n hearing proceedings. (The one file of material about the\n re-authorization of the Department of Justice follows\n the Legal Services papers.)","The \n Voting Rights Act Extension series comprises Butler's legislative papers as a member of the House Judiciary Committee during the consideration of the extension of this Act.","The \n National Bankruptcy Review\n Commission papers are from Butler's service as a\n member of that body from 1995-1997. These 16 cu. ft. of\n materials include: correspondence; meeting minutes;\n memoranda and documents distributed to commission\n members; and the report of the commission and drafts of\n that report.","Box 91 includes audio cassette of\n \"discharge/reaffirmation hearing,\" 1997.","Bicentennial of American Revolution Flag; Bicentennial Medal, 1976; American College of Bankruptcy Commendation plaque, March 14, 1998.","Navy hat, brass buttons, insignia, pins and dog tags.","Contents: 24\"x36 inch photo of Butler, c. 1961; House Concurrent Resolution 672, July 1, 1976; Washington and Lee University Honorary Doctor of Laws Diploma, June 1, 1978; Birthday card from staff, June 2, 1973; National Small Business Association Certificate of Recognition, October 1978; certificate, Governor George Allen (Virgini) naming Butler to Governor's Advisory Council on Self-Determination and Federalism, November 14, 1994.","There are no restrictions.","English"],"unitid_tesim":["004"],"normalized_title_ssm":["M. Caldwell Butler Papers \n 1945-2006"],"collection_title_tesim":["M. Caldwell Butler Papers \n 1945-2006"],"collection_ssim":["M. Caldwell Butler Papers \n 1945-2006"],"repository_ssm":["Washington and Lee University, Law School"],"repository_ssim":["Washington and Lee University, Law School"],"acqinfo_ssim":["This collection was given to the library by M. Caldwell\n Butler in 1980-1983,1997,1999, 2004 and by his estate in 2015."],"has_online_content_ssim":["false"],"physdesc_tesim":["This collection\n consists of ca. 93 cubic feet of materials."],"accessrestrict_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThe Ford medical and financial records are closed.\u003c/p\u003e"],"accessrestrict_heading_ssm":["Access"],"accessrestrict_tesim":["The Ford medical and financial records are closed."],"bioghist_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eManley Caldwell Butler was born June 2, 1925 in Roanoke,\n Virginia, where he lived most of his life until his death on \n July 28, 2014. Following service in the Navy in World War II,\n he received his A.B. from the University of Richmond\n in 1948 and his J.D. from the University of Virginia Law\n School in 1950. Butler married June Nolde in 1950. This union\n produced four sons: Manley, Henry, James and Marshall.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eButler served as the City of Roanoke Representative in\n 1960-1961. In 1962 he was elected to the Virginia House of\n Delegates. He was elected Minority Leader in 1966, a position\n he held until 1972 when he was elected to the 92nd U.S.\n Congress from the 6th District of Virginia. Butler served the\n 6th District for a decade. While serving on the Judiciary\n Committee, Butler participated in the impeachment action\n against President Richard M. Nixon during the summer of 1974.\n In the aftermath of Nixon's resignation, Butler was involved\n in the confirmation hearings of Gerald R. Ford and Nelson\n Rockefeller to serve as President and Vice President\n respectively. Butler was a principal architect of the\n Bankruptcy Reform Act of 1978. He was also a member of the\n Committee on Government Operations. In retirement, Butler\n served on the National Bankruptcy Review Commission in the\n years 1995-1997. \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA partner in the firm of Woods, Rogers \u0026amp; Hazelgrove of\n Roanoke, Virginia from 1983-1998, Mr. Butler held memberships\n in the American Bar Association, the Virginia State Bar, the\n Roanoke Bar Association, the American College of Bankruptcy,\n the Raven Society, the Order of the Coif, and the Board of\n Directors of Dominion Bank Shares Corp of Roanoke. He was also\n a Fellow of the American Bar Foundation and a Director of the\n American Bankruptcy Institute. His fraternal organization\n affiliations include Phi Beta Kappa, Tau Kappa Alpha, Omicron\n Delta Kappa and Phi Gamma Delta.\u003c/p\u003e"],"bioghist_heading_ssm":["Biographical/Historical Information"],"bioghist_tesim":["Manley Caldwell Butler was born June 2, 1925 in Roanoke,\n Virginia, where he lived most of his life until his death on \n July 28, 2014. Following service in the Navy in World War II,\n he received his A.B. from the University of Richmond\n in 1948 and his J.D. from the University of Virginia Law\n School in 1950. Butler married June Nolde in 1950. This union\n produced four sons: Manley, Henry, James and Marshall.","Butler served as the City of Roanoke Representative in\n 1960-1961. In 1962 he was elected to the Virginia House of\n Delegates. He was elected Minority Leader in 1966, a position\n he held until 1972 when he was elected to the 92nd U.S.\n Congress from the 6th District of Virginia. Butler served the\n 6th District for a decade. While serving on the Judiciary\n Committee, Butler participated in the impeachment action\n against President Richard M. Nixon during the summer of 1974.\n In the aftermath of Nixon's resignation, Butler was involved\n in the confirmation hearings of Gerald R. Ford and Nelson\n Rockefeller to serve as President and Vice President\n respectively. Butler was a principal architect of the\n Bankruptcy Reform Act of 1978. He was also a member of the\n Committee on Government Operations. In retirement, Butler\n served on the National Bankruptcy Review Commission in the\n years 1995-1997. ","A partner in the firm of Woods, Rogers \u0026 Hazelgrove of\n Roanoke, Virginia from 1983-1998, Mr. Butler held memberships\n in the American Bar Association, the Virginia State Bar, the\n Roanoke Bar Association, the American College of Bankruptcy,\n the Raven Society, the Order of the Coif, and the Board of\n Directors of Dominion Bank Shares Corp of Roanoke. He was also\n a Fellow of the American Bar Foundation and a Director of the\n American Bankruptcy Institute. His fraternal organization\n affiliations include Phi Beta Kappa, Tau Kappa Alpha, Omicron\n Delta Kappa and Phi Gamma Delta."],"prefercite_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eM. Caldwell Butler Papers, 1945-2006, Ms 004,\n Lewis F. Powell, Jr. Archives, Washington and Lee\n University School of Law, Lexington, VA\u003c/p\u003e"],"prefercite_tesim":["M. Caldwell Butler Papers, 1945-2006, Ms 004,\n Lewis F. Powell, Jr. Archives, Washington and Lee\n University School of Law, Lexington, VA"],"scopecontent_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThe \n M(anley)Caldwell Butler\n Papers consist of approximately 96 cu. ft. of materials from 1925-2006. Most of the papers cover the periods 1972-1982 and 1995-1997. The papers are divided\n into seventeen series: June Nolde Butler papers; correspondence and subject files; military service; appointment calendars; campaigns; scrapbooks, clippings and photos; speeches; newsletters, press\n releases, radio reports and weekly reports; voting record;\n constituency correspondence; confirmation of Gerald R. Ford as\n Vice President; impeachment of President\n Richard M. Nixon; Bankruptcy Reform Act of 1978;\n Legal Services Corporation; re-authorization of the Department of Justice\n for the Fiscal Year 1982; Voting Rights Act extension; the National Bankruptcy Review\n Commission, 1995-1997; and Artifacts, 1944-1998. With the exceptions of the first six series and National\n Bankruptcy Review Commission materials, these papers were\n generated during Butler's terms as U. S. Representative for\n the 6th Congressional District of Virginia, 1972 -1982 (93rd\n Congress - 97th Congress).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe refinement levels of processing are mixed. The gradual donation of materials over a period \n of 40 years is chiefly the cause. The Nixon Impeachment and Bankruptcy Reform Act of 1978 materials \n are mostly described down to the folder level. The National Bankruptcy Review Commission materials arrived largely self-arranged. \n Most other areas of the colleciton, however, are largely unprocessed beyond being sorted into tentative series.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis is particularly true of additions made in 2018 through the estate of Butler's son, James. This has resulted in a temporary \n box renumbering in boxes 1-7. There is also a box of artifacts added at the end of all of the papers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBiographical materials,general correspondence, correspondence with parents and siblings,Letters, \n invitations, menus, calendars, subject files, photos, clippings, artifacts, photos scrapbook (1933-1950)\n and correspondence (1947-1950) with her future husband, M Caldwell Butler\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNixon Impeachment historical studies; Correspondence re publication of book, Stonewall Jim;\n GOP Gala, 2001; certificates of award and merit; records of naval service; education records \n and related materials.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSubjects include: United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit; \n National Bankruptcy Review Commission; Sarah Butler Memorial; Sam Garrison Bar Discipline; \n Bankruptcy Law; Watergate/Impeachment; Susan Aheron; Butler for Governor; Newspaper Items; \n Legal Services Corporation; The Miller Center; and Virginia Cares.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence, subject files, surveys, election returns, and memorabilia\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIn addition to campaign and general coverage, these scrapbooks treat: editorials mentioning Butler; economic conferences; farm conferences; HUD and FMHA conferences; Lynchburg Weather Station; minority business conferences.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMost of these appear to have been kept by his Congressional Office Staff. They document his day-to-day official activities.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThese also document his official activities.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe recordings range from appearances on \u003ctitle render=\"italic\"\u003eFace the Nation \u003c/title\u003e to local forums.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere is a variety of publications on a variety of mainly political topics. forms of materials include trade books, government documents, brochures, and magazinies. \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eSpeeches\u003c/emph\u003e(1964-2001; bulk 1973-1982) are also\n arranged chronologically. The audience, occasion, and\n location are usually noted. From January 1976 onward, a\n topical index is present in addition to the\n chronological listings that are available for all of the\n years. Some nine speeches are missing from the original\n inventory, while others not on that listing were found\n during processing and added to the finding aid.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eNewsletters\u003c/emph\u003e(1973-1981)were\n generated by Congressman Butler's staff to keep citizens\n of the Sixth District of Virginia informed on issues\n before the House, and on the activities of his office.\n The newsletters(N:) are arranged chronologically with an\n alphabetical reference index that has been updated\n through October 1, 1982. This index includes references\n to Radio Reports(RR#) and Weekly Reports(WR#). News\n (Press) Releases (1972-1982), Radio Reports (1973-1978),\n and Weekly Reports (1979-1982) are arranged\n chronologically and their indices provide brief\n summaries of the topics discussed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe \n \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eMembers Personal Voting\n Record\u003c/emph\u003ecovers the period 1973-1982 (93rd Congress\n First Session to the 97th Congress Second Session). Each\n Congress' voting record is divided into two sessions. A\n cumulative record for each Congress is also present.\n Included here are: roll numbers, dates, daily record\n page number, description, and members response. Each\n record contains a roll call subject guide and an index\n to the voting record. Although Butler began his\n congressional term with the 92nd Congress, there is no\n personal voting record for this time.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe \n \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eConstituency Correspondence\u003c/emph\u003eis\n almost exclusively from the period of the impeachment of\n Richard M. Nixon. The letters are divided into those\n favoring impeachment and those opposed to this action.\n There is also correspondence in reaction to the pardon\n of Nixon by President Gerald R. Ford.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMaterials concerning the \n \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eConfirmation of Gerald R. Ford as\n Vice President\u003c/emph\u003einclude: correspondence, memoranda,\n a briefing book, and transcriptions of testimony and\n proceedings during the hearings.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFord medical and financial records are closed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCongressman Butler sat on the House Judiciary\n committee that investigated and voted on the \n \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eimpeachment of President Richard M.\n Nixon\u003c/emph\u003e. The impeachment materials are 15 cu. ft.\n in extent and include: narratives about the Watergate\n break-in and related events, and about the bombing of\n Cambodia; interview transcripts and recorded testimony\n of persons involved in Watergate activities; general\n impeachment inquiry materials(committee notebooks,\n personal notes, etc.); reports on White House\n Surveillance activities; Department of Justice/ITT\n Litigation; Milk Producers Cooperatives investigations;\n papers re the Judiciary Committee's \"Fragile Coalition\";\n general correspondence and memoranda; and printed\n materials. (See also, the series of constituent\n correspondence that precedes the impeachment materials.\n Butler kept an audio diary during the impeachment\n process, and these cassette recordings are included\n here, as are his written notes from this time. Also\n present are partial transcripts of an oral history\n project on the \"Fragile Coalition\" conducted in\n 1974.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eUnrevised and unedited\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe \n \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003ePrinted Materials\u003c/emph\u003eare primarily government documents\n from the period of the impeachment of\n Richard M. Nixon. Below is an enumeration of the titles present from donor gifts 1980-1983. Titles from additions, 1985-2015 are present in these boxes, but not yet listed below.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBook I: December 2, 1971 - June 17,\n 1972\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBook I: June 19, 1972 - March 1, 1974 \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eBook II: June 17, 1972 - February 9,\n 1973\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBook III: June 20, 1972 - March 22,\n 1973\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBook IV: March 22, 1973 - April 30,\n 1973\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAppendix: Political Matters Memoranda \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eI: Presidential Statements \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eII: Papers in Criminal Cases \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eIII: Supplementary Documents \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eIV: Political Matters memoranda\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eExecutive Session Hearings Before the Select\n Committee on Presidential Campaign Activities\n of the United States Senate, November\n 13,14,15,16, December 4, 11, 1973.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere are three distinct audio recording projects documenting the days of the House\n Judiciary Committee Nixon Impeachment proceedings in July 1974. The first was part audio\n diary and part interviews involving Rep. Butler and reporter Wayne Woodlief. This project \n ran from May to early August 1974, with most of the recordings being from July. The recordings\n of most of these sessions -- some are missing; it is thought to be few, but there is no definitive \n way of knowing -- are in audio cassettes housed in box 55. There is a user set of CDs of these \n recordings in that box, and there are digital audio files of these tapes housed in Box on the Washington and Lee University \n network. There is also an incomplete set of transcripts for this project in box 54. Woodlief \n spoke of trying to produce a book at least partially based on these tapes. He sent such a proposal\n to Butler on July 10, 1975. The only printed product to emerge from these recordings, however, was \n an extensive article in the July 27, 1975 edition of The \u003ctitle render=\"italic\"\u003eRoanoke Times\u003c/title\u003e, \n also published in the \u003ctitle render=\"italic\"\u003eVirginian-Pilot\u003c/title\u003e of the same date.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe second recordings were much more limited in scope. On July 31, 1974, Butler sat down with\n Thomas Mooney, a Judiciary Committee attorney, to record on audiotape, their recollection of \n events as they unfolded on July 22-24. Their primary aim seems to have been capturing the \n drafting of the articles of impeachment. There are transcripts -- again just how complete cannot\n be determined, but not any recordings themselves.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe third project was the most ambitious. It was an attempt to record the Nixon Impeachment memories\n of all of the members of the so-called Fragile Coalition, those Democratic and Republican members of \n the House Judiciary Committee who held the swing votes on impeachment. They came together to draft \n articles of impeachment on which they could all vote \"yes\".\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe organizers of this project were Thomas Mooney Sr., Stephen Lynch, and Father Donald Shea, longtime chair\n of the history department at St. Joseph College (Indiana). Mooney was a St. Joseph College alumnus and friend\n of Father Shea. The project was funded by St. Joseph College, and other private funds were solicited, as well.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe project had two parts. In the first part, the organizers interviewed members of the coalition \n individually in their Washington Congressional offices in June 1975. This was followed by a retreat on Hilton Head \n Island, SC in July 1975. Extensive aide memoire printed materials were gathered and given to each member of the coalition \n in advance. The recordings made there were in panel format only, with all of the Fragile Coalition members present.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere are no recordings from this project in the Butler papers. There are transcripts -- once again, there is no\n telling how complete -- from both the individual interviews and the Hilton Head panels. There is a third category of\n transcripts, those with interviewees' corrections handwritten on transcriptions. These corrected copies are from both the \n individual and group sessions. Some of these transcripts were sent to Butler and the Powell Archives by the University\n of Maine's Fogler Library which houses the papers of Fragile Coalition member William Cohen.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eUnlike the printed materials that are found throughout the Impeachment series, these books and magazines\n are not government documents. There are copies of \u003ctitle render=\"italic\"\u003eTime, Newsweek,\u003c/title\u003e and\n \u003ctitle render=\"italic\"\u003eLife\u003c/title\u003e magazines from the time of the impeachment. There are also books and \n a college thesis giving retropective views on that period.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe \n \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eBankruptcy Materials\u003c/emph\u003eare 18\n cu. ft. of papers documenting Butler's work in the\n drafting and passage of the legislation popularly known\n as the Bankruptcy Reform Act of 1978. Forms of materials\n present include: minutes of the Bankruptcy Commission,\n markup books on various versions of bankruptcy bills,\n memoranda, briefing materials, meetings transcripts,\n hearing transcripts, conference materials, Congressional\n Record Notebooks, audio tapes of markup sessions, and\n supplemental information on bankruptcy legislation with\n relevant testimony.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis material was arranged by Butler's office into\n three major components: 1)general materials in\n ring-binder notebooks to which Roman Numerals were\n assigned; 2)\"Supplemental Materials: ... \" filed in\n \"books\" numbered 1-45; and, 3) Ken Klee's research\n materials. The arrangement of these materials is not\n easily grasped, but the donor has provided a \"road map.\"\n A Butler document from around 1980 entitled \"The\n Narrative History of the Bankruptcy Act Revision\"\n provides a concise, informal legislative history of the\n Bankruptcy Reform Act of 1978 from Mr. Butler's\n perspective. It also discusses the creation and\n arrangement of these records and includes references to\n the Roman numeral numbering scheme employed by Butler's\n staff. This narrative is found in the first folder of\n the first box of bankruptcy materials(box 57). A second\n helpful narrative entitled \"The Establishment of the\n Commission\" states the reasons that impelled Congress to\n establish the Commission on Bankruptcy in June of 1970.\n This can be found in box 71 in the folder titled \"Mun.\n 5.\" Ken Klee's article on bankruptcy legislative (box\n 72) may also be of use in understanding events leading\n up to the 1978 act. The article is entitled, \"Congress\n and the Bankruptcy Act of 1976,\" and appeared in volume\n 61 of the \n \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eAmerican Bar Association\n Journal\u003c/title\u003e(October, 1975).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe \n \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003egeneral materials\u003c/emph\u003ehave been\n removed from the ring-binders, but the folders that now\n hold them are labeled with the Roman numeral\n corresponding to the binder in which they were formerly\n housed. Everything from 1971 research materials to the\n printed public law version of the 1978 Bankruptcy Reform\n Act can be found here. Books and pamphlets printed by\n the Government Office of Printing are found in Roman\n numeral sections I and III-IX. Included here are the\n Commission on Bankruptcy Laws Report, H.R. 10792, H.R.\n 16643, Hearings on H.R. 31 and H.R. 32, Hearings on S.\n 235, S. 236, H.R. 6, and oversized side-by-side\n comparisons of VI (H) and XIII of H.R. 31 and 32 and S.\n 2266 and H.R. 8200 (stored in box 75).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAll of the \"Supplemental Legislation and Testimony\"\n is contained in 45 \"books\" and includes correspondence,\n notes and paste-ups of various sections of proposed\n versions of the bankruptcy bill. Section \"F,\" of XLIII\n \"Conference Materials\" (Box 61, Folder 9 from the\n general materials described above) contains the index to\n the 45 books. Much of the contents are reiterations of\n information from the \"Roman numeral\" notebooks arranged\n for quick reference. Testimony is arranged by bill\n section.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe Ken Klee's bankruptcy files were created while\n Klee served as associate counsel for the Subcommittee on\n Civil and Constitutional Rights of the House Committee\n on the Judiciary. They are 4 cu. ft. in extent and are\n divided into three sections: uniform bankruptcy file,\n municipal bankruptcy file (MUN), and bankruptcy act\n subject files. An index to Klee's files is contained in\n Section \"E\" of XLIII \"Conference Materials\" (Box 61,\n Folder 9). The Uniform Bankruptcy Files are arranged\n numerically beginning with the number 102 and contain\n statements, testimonies, correspondence, memoranda,\n drafts and other relevant materials regarding the\n proposed bankruptcy rules. The Municipal Bankruptcy File\n is arranged numerically. The files are designated MUN\n with a corresponding number. These files also contain\n drafts, testimonies, statements, memorandums and\n reports. Klee's Bankruptcy Subject Files are arranged\n alphabetically. Included here (under 'g') is general\n correspondence from 1973-1978.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e#I - LII\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e(A) \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eMarch 19-June 14, 1971 \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eSeptember 15,16-November 15, 1971 \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eDecember 13-January 30,31, 1972 \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eApril 10-May 1, 1972 \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eJune 12-September 11-12, 1972 \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eOctober 9-10, 1972 \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eNovember 13-14, 1972 \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eDecember 4-5, 1972\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e(B) \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eDecember 4-5, 1972 \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eJanuary 15-16, 1973 \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eFebruary 22-24, 1973 \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eMarch 15-17, 1973 \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eApril 12-14, 1973 \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eJune 7-12, 1973\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e(A) \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e(B) \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e(C)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e(A) \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e(B) \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e(C)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e(E) \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e(F) \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e(G) \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e(H) -- Side-by-Side of H.R. 31 and H.R.\n 32 (2 copies) September 2, 1975. In oversize\n carton 49.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e(A) \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e(B) \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e(C)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e(A) \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e(B)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e(A)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e(B) \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e(C)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e(A) \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e(B)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSource 13 260;263 \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eSource 14 322-323 \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eSource 15 336 \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eSource 20 412-415 \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eSource 23A 502 \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eSource 50 549;554-555 \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eSource 30 587-588 \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eSource 31 595-596 \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eSource 33 612-613\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBooks for S. 2266 and H.R. 8200; H.R. 31 and H.R. 32\n \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePublished by San Diego Urban League,\n Inc.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEnclosed copy of RRRA and RRRRA\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eLegal Services Corporation\n Act\u003c/emph\u003epapers consist of one cu. ft. of materials\n concerning the authorization of funding for this entity\n for the fiscal years 1982-1984. Included here are: the\n authorization bill, itself; correspondence; \"discussion\n papers\"; press clippings; transcripts of testimony and\n hearing proceedings. (The one file of material about the\n re-authorization of the Department of Justice follows\n the Legal Services papers.)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe \n \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eVoting Rights Act Extension\u003c/emph\u003eseries comprises Butler's legislative papers as a member of the House Judiciary Committee during the consideration of the extension of this Act.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe \n \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eNational Bankruptcy Review\n Commission\u003c/emph\u003epapers are from Butler's service as a\n member of that body from 1995-1997. These 16 cu. ft. of\n materials include: correspondence; meeting minutes;\n memoranda and documents distributed to commission\n members; and the report of the commission and drafts of\n that report.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBox 91 includes audio cassette of\n \"discharge/reaffirmation hearing,\" 1997.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBicentennial of American Revolution Flag; Bicentennial Medal, 1976; American College of Bankruptcy Commendation plaque, March 14, 1998.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNavy hat, brass buttons, insignia, pins and dog tags.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eContents: 24\"x36 inch photo of Butler, c. 1961; House Concurrent Resolution 672, July 1, 1976; Washington and Lee University Honorary Doctor of Laws Diploma, June 1, 1978; Birthday card from staff, June 2, 1973; National Small Business Association Certificate of Recognition, October 1978; certificate, Governor George Allen (Virgini) naming Butler to Governor's Advisory Council on Self-Determination and Federalism, November 14, 1994.\u003c/p\u003e"],"scopecontent_heading_ssm":["Scope and Content Information","Scope and Content\n "],"scopecontent_tesim":["The \n M(anley)Caldwell Butler\n Papers consist of approximately 96 cu. ft. of materials from 1925-2006. Most of the papers cover the periods 1972-1982 and 1995-1997. The papers are divided\n into seventeen series: June Nolde Butler papers; correspondence and subject files; military service; appointment calendars; campaigns; scrapbooks, clippings and photos; speeches; newsletters, press\n releases, radio reports and weekly reports; voting record;\n constituency correspondence; confirmation of Gerald R. Ford as\n Vice President; impeachment of President\n Richard M. Nixon; Bankruptcy Reform Act of 1978;\n Legal Services Corporation; re-authorization of the Department of Justice\n for the Fiscal Year 1982; Voting Rights Act extension; the National Bankruptcy Review\n Commission, 1995-1997; and Artifacts, 1944-1998. With the exceptions of the first six series and National\n Bankruptcy Review Commission materials, these papers were\n generated during Butler's terms as U. S. Representative for\n the 6th Congressional District of Virginia, 1972 -1982 (93rd\n Congress - 97th Congress).","The refinement levels of processing are mixed. The gradual donation of materials over a period \n of 40 years is chiefly the cause. The Nixon Impeachment and Bankruptcy Reform Act of 1978 materials \n are mostly described down to the folder level. The National Bankruptcy Review Commission materials arrived largely self-arranged. \n Most other areas of the colleciton, however, are largely unprocessed beyond being sorted into tentative series.","This is particularly true of additions made in 2018 through the estate of Butler's son, James. This has resulted in a temporary \n box renumbering in boxes 1-7. There is also a box of artifacts added at the end of all of the papers.","Biographical materials,general correspondence, correspondence with parents and siblings,Letters, \n invitations, menus, calendars, subject files, photos, clippings, artifacts, photos scrapbook (1933-1950)\n and correspondence (1947-1950) with her future husband, M Caldwell Butler","Nixon Impeachment historical studies; Correspondence re publication of book, Stonewall Jim;\n GOP Gala, 2001; certificates of award and merit; records of naval service; education records \n and related materials.","Subjects include: United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit; \n National Bankruptcy Review Commission; Sarah Butler Memorial; Sam Garrison Bar Discipline; \n Bankruptcy Law; Watergate/Impeachment; Susan Aheron; Butler for Governor; Newspaper Items; \n Legal Services Corporation; The Miller Center; and Virginia Cares.","Correspondence, subject files, surveys, election returns, and memorabilia","In addition to campaign and general coverage, these scrapbooks treat: editorials mentioning Butler; economic conferences; farm conferences; HUD and FMHA conferences; Lynchburg Weather Station; minority business conferences.","Most of these appear to have been kept by his Congressional Office Staff. They document his day-to-day official activities.","These also document his official activities.","The recordings range from appearances on Face the Nation to local forums.","There is a variety of publications on a variety of mainly political topics. forms of materials include trade books, government documents, brochures, and magazinies. ","Speeches (1964-2001; bulk 1973-1982) are also\n arranged chronologically. The audience, occasion, and\n location are usually noted. From January 1976 onward, a\n topical index is present in addition to the\n chronological listings that are available for all of the\n years. Some nine speeches are missing from the original\n inventory, while others not on that listing were found\n during processing and added to the finding aid.","Newsletters (1973-1981)were\n generated by Congressman Butler's staff to keep citizens\n of the Sixth District of Virginia informed on issues\n before the House, and on the activities of his office.\n The newsletters(N:) are arranged chronologically with an\n alphabetical reference index that has been updated\n through October 1, 1982. This index includes references\n to Radio Reports(RR#) and Weekly Reports(WR#). News\n (Press) Releases (1972-1982), Radio Reports (1973-1978),\n and Weekly Reports (1979-1982) are arranged\n chronologically and their indices provide brief\n summaries of the topics discussed.","The \n Members Personal Voting\n Record covers the period 1973-1982 (93rd Congress\n First Session to the 97th Congress Second Session). Each\n Congress' voting record is divided into two sessions. A\n cumulative record for each Congress is also present.\n Included here are: roll numbers, dates, daily record\n page number, description, and members response. Each\n record contains a roll call subject guide and an index\n to the voting record. Although Butler began his\n congressional term with the 92nd Congress, there is no\n personal voting record for this time.","The \n Constituency Correspondence is\n almost exclusively from the period of the impeachment of\n Richard M. Nixon. The letters are divided into those\n favoring impeachment and those opposed to this action.\n There is also correspondence in reaction to the pardon\n of Nixon by President Gerald R. Ford.","Materials concerning the \n Confirmation of Gerald R. Ford as\n Vice President include: correspondence, memoranda,\n a briefing book, and transcriptions of testimony and\n proceedings during the hearings.","Ford medical and financial records are closed.","Congressman Butler sat on the House Judiciary\n committee that investigated and voted on the \n impeachment of President Richard M.\n Nixon . The impeachment materials are 15 cu. ft.\n in extent and include: narratives about the Watergate\n break-in and related events, and about the bombing of\n Cambodia; interview transcripts and recorded testimony\n of persons involved in Watergate activities; general\n impeachment inquiry materials(committee notebooks,\n personal notes, etc.); reports on White House\n Surveillance activities; Department of Justice/ITT\n Litigation; Milk Producers Cooperatives investigations;\n papers re the Judiciary Committee's \"Fragile Coalition\";\n general correspondence and memoranda; and printed\n materials. (See also, the series of constituent\n correspondence that precedes the impeachment materials.\n Butler kept an audio diary during the impeachment\n process, and these cassette recordings are included\n here, as are his written notes from this time. Also\n present are partial transcripts of an oral history\n project on the \"Fragile Coalition\" conducted in\n 1974.","Unrevised and unedited","The \n Printed Materials are primarily government documents\n from the period of the impeachment of\n Richard M. Nixon. Below is an enumeration of the titles present from donor gifts 1980-1983. Titles from additions, 1985-2015 are present in these boxes, but not yet listed below.","Book I: December 2, 1971 - June 17,\n 1972","Book I: June 19, 1972 - March 1, 1974 \n Book II: June 17, 1972 - February 9,\n 1973","Book III: June 20, 1972 - March 22,\n 1973","Book IV: March 22, 1973 - April 30,\n 1973","Appendix: Political Matters Memoranda \n I: Presidential Statements \n II: Papers in Criminal Cases \n III: Supplementary Documents \n IV: Political Matters memoranda","Executive Session Hearings Before the Select\n Committee on Presidential Campaign Activities\n of the United States Senate, November\n 13,14,15,16, December 4, 11, 1973.","There are three distinct audio recording projects documenting the days of the House\n Judiciary Committee Nixon Impeachment proceedings in July 1974. The first was part audio\n diary and part interviews involving Rep. Butler and reporter Wayne Woodlief. This project \n ran from May to early August 1974, with most of the recordings being from July. The recordings\n of most of these sessions -- some are missing; it is thought to be few, but there is no definitive \n way of knowing -- are in audio cassettes housed in box 55. There is a user set of CDs of these \n recordings in that box, and there are digital audio files of these tapes housed in Box on the Washington and Lee University \n network. There is also an incomplete set of transcripts for this project in box 54. Woodlief \n spoke of trying to produce a book at least partially based on these tapes. He sent such a proposal\n to Butler on July 10, 1975. The only printed product to emerge from these recordings, however, was \n an extensive article in the July 27, 1975 edition of The Roanoke Times , \n also published in the Virginian-Pilot of the same date.","The second recordings were much more limited in scope. On July 31, 1974, Butler sat down with\n Thomas Mooney, a Judiciary Committee attorney, to record on audiotape, their recollection of \n events as they unfolded on July 22-24. Their primary aim seems to have been capturing the \n drafting of the articles of impeachment. There are transcripts -- again just how complete cannot\n be determined, but not any recordings themselves.","The third project was the most ambitious. It was an attempt to record the Nixon Impeachment memories\n of all of the members of the so-called Fragile Coalition, those Democratic and Republican members of \n the House Judiciary Committee who held the swing votes on impeachment. They came together to draft \n articles of impeachment on which they could all vote \"yes\".","The organizers of this project were Thomas Mooney Sr., Stephen Lynch, and Father Donald Shea, longtime chair\n of the history department at St. Joseph College (Indiana). Mooney was a St. Joseph College alumnus and friend\n of Father Shea. The project was funded by St. Joseph College, and other private funds were solicited, as well.","The project had two parts. In the first part, the organizers interviewed members of the coalition \n individually in their Washington Congressional offices in June 1975. This was followed by a retreat on Hilton Head \n Island, SC in July 1975. Extensive aide memoire printed materials were gathered and given to each member of the coalition \n in advance. The recordings made there were in panel format only, with all of the Fragile Coalition members present.","There are no recordings from this project in the Butler papers. There are transcripts -- once again, there is no\n telling how complete -- from both the individual interviews and the Hilton Head panels. There is a third category of\n transcripts, those with interviewees' corrections handwritten on transcriptions. These corrected copies are from both the \n individual and group sessions. Some of these transcripts were sent to Butler and the Powell Archives by the University\n of Maine's Fogler Library which houses the papers of Fragile Coalition member William Cohen.","Unlike the printed materials that are found throughout the Impeachment series, these books and magazines\n are not government documents. There are copies of Time, Newsweek, and\n Life magazines from the time of the impeachment. There are also books and \n a college thesis giving retropective views on that period.","The \n Bankruptcy Materials are 18\n cu. ft. of papers documenting Butler's work in the\n drafting and passage of the legislation popularly known\n as the Bankruptcy Reform Act of 1978. Forms of materials\n present include: minutes of the Bankruptcy Commission,\n markup books on various versions of bankruptcy bills,\n memoranda, briefing materials, meetings transcripts,\n hearing transcripts, conference materials, Congressional\n Record Notebooks, audio tapes of markup sessions, and\n supplemental information on bankruptcy legislation with\n relevant testimony.","This material was arranged by Butler's office into\n three major components: 1)general materials in\n ring-binder notebooks to which Roman Numerals were\n assigned; 2)\"Supplemental Materials: ... \" filed in\n \"books\" numbered 1-45; and, 3) Ken Klee's research\n materials. The arrangement of these materials is not\n easily grasped, but the donor has provided a \"road map.\"\n A Butler document from around 1980 entitled \"The\n Narrative History of the Bankruptcy Act Revision\"\n provides a concise, informal legislative history of the\n Bankruptcy Reform Act of 1978 from Mr. Butler's\n perspective. It also discusses the creation and\n arrangement of these records and includes references to\n the Roman numeral numbering scheme employed by Butler's\n staff. This narrative is found in the first folder of\n the first box of bankruptcy materials(box 57). A second\n helpful narrative entitled \"The Establishment of the\n Commission\" states the reasons that impelled Congress to\n establish the Commission on Bankruptcy in June of 1970.\n This can be found in box 71 in the folder titled \"Mun.\n 5.\" Ken Klee's article on bankruptcy legislative (box\n 72) may also be of use in understanding events leading\n up to the 1978 act. The article is entitled, \"Congress\n and the Bankruptcy Act of 1976,\" and appeared in volume\n 61 of the \n American Bar Association\n Journal (October, 1975).","The \n general materials have been\n removed from the ring-binders, but the folders that now\n hold them are labeled with the Roman numeral\n corresponding to the binder in which they were formerly\n housed. Everything from 1971 research materials to the\n printed public law version of the 1978 Bankruptcy Reform\n Act can be found here. Books and pamphlets printed by\n the Government Office of Printing are found in Roman\n numeral sections I and III-IX. Included here are the\n Commission on Bankruptcy Laws Report, H.R. 10792, H.R.\n 16643, Hearings on H.R. 31 and H.R. 32, Hearings on S.\n 235, S. 236, H.R. 6, and oversized side-by-side\n comparisons of VI (H) and XIII of H.R. 31 and 32 and S.\n 2266 and H.R. 8200 (stored in box 75).","All of the \"Supplemental Legislation and Testimony\"\n is contained in 45 \"books\" and includes correspondence,\n notes and paste-ups of various sections of proposed\n versions of the bankruptcy bill. Section \"F,\" of XLIII\n \"Conference Materials\" (Box 61, Folder 9 from the\n general materials described above) contains the index to\n the 45 books. Much of the contents are reiterations of\n information from the \"Roman numeral\" notebooks arranged\n for quick reference. Testimony is arranged by bill\n section.","The Ken Klee's bankruptcy files were created while\n Klee served as associate counsel for the Subcommittee on\n Civil and Constitutional Rights of the House Committee\n on the Judiciary. They are 4 cu. ft. in extent and are\n divided into three sections: uniform bankruptcy file,\n municipal bankruptcy file (MUN), and bankruptcy act\n subject files. An index to Klee's files is contained in\n Section \"E\" of XLIII \"Conference Materials\" (Box 61,\n Folder 9). The Uniform Bankruptcy Files are arranged\n numerically beginning with the number 102 and contain\n statements, testimonies, correspondence, memoranda,\n drafts and other relevant materials regarding the\n proposed bankruptcy rules. The Municipal Bankruptcy File\n is arranged numerically. The files are designated MUN\n with a corresponding number. These files also contain\n drafts, testimonies, statements, memorandums and\n reports. Klee's Bankruptcy Subject Files are arranged\n alphabetically. Included here (under 'g') is general\n correspondence from 1973-1978.","#I - LII","(A) \n March 19-June 14, 1971 \n September 15,16-November 15, 1971 \n December 13-January 30,31, 1972 \n April 10-May 1, 1972 \n June 12-September 11-12, 1972 \n October 9-10, 1972 \n November 13-14, 1972 \n December 4-5, 1972","(B) \n December 4-5, 1972 \n January 15-16, 1973 \n February 22-24, 1973 \n March 15-17, 1973 \n April 12-14, 1973 \n June 7-12, 1973","(A) \n (B) \n (C)","(A) \n (B) \n (C)","(E) \n (F) \n (G) \n (H) -- Side-by-Side of H.R. 31 and H.R.\n 32 (2 copies) September 2, 1975. In oversize\n carton 49.","(A) \n (B) \n (C)","(A) \n (B)","(A)","(B) \n (C)","(A) \n (B)","Source 13 260;263 \n Source 14 322-323 \n Source 15 336 \n Source 20 412-415 \n Source 23A 502 \n Source 50 549;554-555 \n Source 30 587-588 \n Source 31 595-596 \n Source 33 612-613","Books for S. 2266 and H.R. 8200; H.R. 31 and H.R. 32\n ","Published by San Diego Urban League,\n Inc.","Enclosed copy of RRRA and RRRRA","Legal Services Corporation\n Act papers consist of one cu. ft. of materials\n concerning the authorization of funding for this entity\n for the fiscal years 1982-1984. Included here are: the\n authorization bill, itself; correspondence; \"discussion\n papers\"; press clippings; transcripts of testimony and\n hearing proceedings. (The one file of material about the\n re-authorization of the Department of Justice follows\n the Legal Services papers.)","The \n Voting Rights Act Extension series comprises Butler's legislative papers as a member of the House Judiciary Committee during the consideration of the extension of this Act.","The \n National Bankruptcy Review\n Commission papers are from Butler's service as a\n member of that body from 1995-1997. These 16 cu. ft. of\n materials include: correspondence; meeting minutes;\n memoranda and documents distributed to commission\n members; and the report of the commission and drafts of\n that report.","Box 91 includes audio cassette of\n \"discharge/reaffirmation hearing,\" 1997.","Bicentennial of American Revolution Flag; Bicentennial Medal, 1976; American College of Bankruptcy Commendation plaque, March 14, 1998.","Navy hat, brass buttons, insignia, pins and dog tags.","Contents: 24\"x36 inch photo of Butler, c. 1961; House Concurrent Resolution 672, July 1, 1976; Washington and Lee University Honorary Doctor of Laws Diploma, June 1, 1978; Birthday card from staff, June 2, 1973; National Small Business Association Certificate of Recognition, October 1978; certificate, Governor George Allen (Virgini) naming Butler to Governor's Advisory Council on Self-Determination and Federalism, November 14, 1994."],"userestrict_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThere are no restrictions.\u003c/p\u003e"],"userestrict_heading_ssm":["Use Restrictions"],"userestrict_tesim":["There are no restrictions."],"language_ssim":["English"],"total_component_count_is":567,"online_item_count_is":0,"component_level_isim":[0],"sort_isi":0,"timestamp":"2026-05-20T15:09:15.002Z"}]}},"label":"Breadcrumbs"}}},"links":{"self":"https://arvasarchive.org/catalog/vilxwl_vilxwl00003_c16_c02_c01_c02"}},{"id":"vilxwl_vilxwl00003_c11_c03","type":"Subseries","attributes":{"title":"10.3: Radio Reports","breadcrumbs":{"id":"https://arvasarchive.org/catalog/vilxwl_vilxwl00003_c11_c03#breadcrumbs","type":"document_value","attributes":{"value":{"ref_ssi":"vilxwl_vilxwl00003_c11_c03","ref_ssm":["vilxwl_vilxwl00003_c11_c03"],"id":"vilxwl_vilxwl00003_c11_c03","ead_ssi":"vilxwl_vilxwl00003","_root_":"vilxwl_vilxwl00003","_nest_parent_":"vilxwl_vilxwl00003_c11","parent_ssi":"vilxwl_vilxwl00003_c11","parent_ssim":["vilxwl_vilxwl00003","vilxwl_vilxwl00003_c11"],"parent_ids_ssim":["vilxwl_vilxwl00003","vilxwl_vilxwl00003_c11"],"parent_unittitles_ssm":["M. 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Caldwell Butler Papers \n 1945-2006","This collection\n consists of ca. 93 cubic feet of materials.","The Ford medical and financial records are closed.","Manley Caldwell Butler was born June 2, 1925 in Roanoke,\n Virginia, where he lived most of his life until his death on \n July 28, 2014. Following service in the Navy in World War II,\n he received his A.B. from the University of Richmond\n in 1948 and his J.D. from the University of Virginia Law\n School in 1950. Butler married June Nolde in 1950. This union\n produced four sons: Manley, Henry, James and Marshall.","Butler served as the City of Roanoke Representative in\n 1960-1961. In 1962 he was elected to the Virginia House of\n Delegates. He was elected Minority Leader in 1966, a position\n he held until 1972 when he was elected to the 92nd U.S.\n Congress from the 6th District of Virginia. Butler served the\n 6th District for a decade. While serving on the Judiciary\n Committee, Butler participated in the impeachment action\n against President Richard M. Nixon during the summer of 1974.\n In the aftermath of Nixon's resignation, Butler was involved\n in the confirmation hearings of Gerald R. Ford and Nelson\n Rockefeller to serve as President and Vice President\n respectively. Butler was a principal architect of the\n Bankruptcy Reform Act of 1978. He was also a member of the\n Committee on Government Operations. In retirement, Butler\n served on the National Bankruptcy Review Commission in the\n years 1995-1997. ","A partner in the firm of Woods, Rogers \u0026 Hazelgrove of\n Roanoke, Virginia from 1983-1998, Mr. Butler held memberships\n in the American Bar Association, the Virginia State Bar, the\n Roanoke Bar Association, the American College of Bankruptcy,\n the Raven Society, the Order of the Coif, and the Board of\n Directors of Dominion Bank Shares Corp of Roanoke. He was also\n a Fellow of the American Bar Foundation and a Director of the\n American Bankruptcy Institute. His fraternal organization\n affiliations include Phi Beta Kappa, Tau Kappa Alpha, Omicron\n Delta Kappa and Phi Gamma Delta.","The \n M(anley)Caldwell Butler\n Papers consist of approximately 96 cu. ft. of materials from 1925-2006. Most of the papers cover the periods 1972-1982 and 1995-1997. The papers are divided\n into seventeen series: June Nolde Butler papers; correspondence and subject files; military service; appointment calendars; campaigns; scrapbooks, clippings and photos; speeches; newsletters, press\n releases, radio reports and weekly reports; voting record;\n constituency correspondence; confirmation of Gerald R. Ford as\n Vice President; impeachment of President\n Richard M. Nixon; Bankruptcy Reform Act of 1978;\n Legal Services Corporation; re-authorization of the Department of Justice\n for the Fiscal Year 1982; Voting Rights Act extension; the National Bankruptcy Review\n Commission, 1995-1997; and Artifacts, 1944-1998. With the exceptions of the first six series and National\n Bankruptcy Review Commission materials, these papers were\n generated during Butler's terms as U. S. Representative for\n the 6th Congressional District of Virginia, 1972 -1982 (93rd\n Congress - 97th Congress).","The refinement levels of processing are mixed. The gradual donation of materials over a period \n of 40 years is chiefly the cause. The Nixon Impeachment and Bankruptcy Reform Act of 1978 materials \n are mostly described down to the folder level. The National Bankruptcy Review Commission materials arrived largely self-arranged. \n Most other areas of the colleciton, however, are largely unprocessed beyond being sorted into tentative series.","This is particularly true of additions made in 2018 through the estate of Butler's son, James. This has resulted in a temporary \n box renumbering in boxes 1-7. There is also a box of artifacts added at the end of all of the papers.","Biographical materials,general correspondence, correspondence with parents and siblings,Letters, \n invitations, menus, calendars, subject files, photos, clippings, artifacts, photos scrapbook (1933-1950)\n and correspondence (1947-1950) with her future husband, M Caldwell Butler","Nixon Impeachment historical studies; Correspondence re publication of book, Stonewall Jim;\n GOP Gala, 2001; certificates of award and merit; records of naval service; education records \n and related materials.","Subjects include: United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit; \n National Bankruptcy Review Commission; Sarah Butler Memorial; Sam Garrison Bar Discipline; \n Bankruptcy Law; Watergate/Impeachment; Susan Aheron; Butler for Governor; Newspaper Items; \n Legal Services Corporation; The Miller Center; and Virginia Cares.","Correspondence, subject files, surveys, election returns, and memorabilia","In addition to campaign and general coverage, these scrapbooks treat: editorials mentioning Butler; economic conferences; farm conferences; HUD and FMHA conferences; Lynchburg Weather Station; minority business conferences.","Most of these appear to have been kept by his Congressional Office Staff. They document his day-to-day official activities.","These also document his official activities.","The recordings range from appearances on Face the Nation to local forums.","There is a variety of publications on a variety of mainly political topics. forms of materials include trade books, government documents, brochures, and magazinies. ","Speeches (1964-2001; bulk 1973-1982) are also\n arranged chronologically. The audience, occasion, and\n location are usually noted. From January 1976 onward, a\n topical index is present in addition to the\n chronological listings that are available for all of the\n years. Some nine speeches are missing from the original\n inventory, while others not on that listing were found\n during processing and added to the finding aid.","Newsletters (1973-1981)were\n generated by Congressman Butler's staff to keep citizens\n of the Sixth District of Virginia informed on issues\n before the House, and on the activities of his office.\n The newsletters(N:) are arranged chronologically with an\n alphabetical reference index that has been updated\n through October 1, 1982. This index includes references\n to Radio Reports(RR#) and Weekly Reports(WR#). News\n (Press) Releases (1972-1982), Radio Reports (1973-1978),\n and Weekly Reports (1979-1982) are arranged\n chronologically and their indices provide brief\n summaries of the topics discussed.","The \n Members Personal Voting\n Record covers the period 1973-1982 (93rd Congress\n First Session to the 97th Congress Second Session). Each\n Congress' voting record is divided into two sessions. A\n cumulative record for each Congress is also present.\n Included here are: roll numbers, dates, daily record\n page number, description, and members response. Each\n record contains a roll call subject guide and an index\n to the voting record. Although Butler began his\n congressional term with the 92nd Congress, there is no\n personal voting record for this time.","The \n Constituency Correspondence is\n almost exclusively from the period of the impeachment of\n Richard M. Nixon. The letters are divided into those\n favoring impeachment and those opposed to this action.\n There is also correspondence in reaction to the pardon\n of Nixon by President Gerald R. Ford.","Materials concerning the \n Confirmation of Gerald R. Ford as\n Vice President include: correspondence, memoranda,\n a briefing book, and transcriptions of testimony and\n proceedings during the hearings.","Ford medical and financial records are closed.","Congressman Butler sat on the House Judiciary\n committee that investigated and voted on the \n impeachment of President Richard M.\n Nixon . The impeachment materials are 15 cu. ft.\n in extent and include: narratives about the Watergate\n break-in and related events, and about the bombing of\n Cambodia; interview transcripts and recorded testimony\n of persons involved in Watergate activities; general\n impeachment inquiry materials(committee notebooks,\n personal notes, etc.); reports on White House\n Surveillance activities; Department of Justice/ITT\n Litigation; Milk Producers Cooperatives investigations;\n papers re the Judiciary Committee's \"Fragile Coalition\";\n general correspondence and memoranda; and printed\n materials. (See also, the series of constituent\n correspondence that precedes the impeachment materials.\n Butler kept an audio diary during the impeachment\n process, and these cassette recordings are included\n here, as are his written notes from this time. Also\n present are partial transcripts of an oral history\n project on the \"Fragile Coalition\" conducted in\n 1974.","Unrevised and unedited","The \n Printed Materials are primarily government documents\n from the period of the impeachment of\n Richard M. Nixon. Below is an enumeration of the titles present from donor gifts 1980-1983. Titles from additions, 1985-2015 are present in these boxes, but not yet listed below.","Book I: December 2, 1971 - June 17,\n 1972","Book I: June 19, 1972 - March 1, 1974 \n Book II: June 17, 1972 - February 9,\n 1973","Book III: June 20, 1972 - March 22,\n 1973","Book IV: March 22, 1973 - April 30,\n 1973","Appendix: Political Matters Memoranda \n I: Presidential Statements \n II: Papers in Criminal Cases \n III: Supplementary Documents \n IV: Political Matters memoranda","Executive Session Hearings Before the Select\n Committee on Presidential Campaign Activities\n of the United States Senate, November\n 13,14,15,16, December 4, 11, 1973.","There are three distinct audio recording projects documenting the days of the House\n Judiciary Committee Nixon Impeachment proceedings in July 1974. The first was part audio\n diary and part interviews involving Rep. Butler and reporter Wayne Woodlief. This project \n ran from May to early August 1974, with most of the recordings being from July. The recordings\n of most of these sessions -- some are missing; it is thought to be few, but there is no definitive \n way of knowing -- are in audio cassettes housed in box 55. There is a user set of CDs of these \n recordings in that box, and there are digital audio files of these tapes housed in Box on the Washington and Lee University \n network. There is also an incomplete set of transcripts for this project in box 54. Woodlief \n spoke of trying to produce a book at least partially based on these tapes. He sent such a proposal\n to Butler on July 10, 1975. The only printed product to emerge from these recordings, however, was \n an extensive article in the July 27, 1975 edition of The Roanoke Times , \n also published in the Virginian-Pilot of the same date.","The second recordings were much more limited in scope. On July 31, 1974, Butler sat down with\n Thomas Mooney, a Judiciary Committee attorney, to record on audiotape, their recollection of \n events as they unfolded on July 22-24. Their primary aim seems to have been capturing the \n drafting of the articles of impeachment. There are transcripts -- again just how complete cannot\n be determined, but not any recordings themselves.","The third project was the most ambitious. It was an attempt to record the Nixon Impeachment memories\n of all of the members of the so-called Fragile Coalition, those Democratic and Republican members of \n the House Judiciary Committee who held the swing votes on impeachment. They came together to draft \n articles of impeachment on which they could all vote \"yes\".","The organizers of this project were Thomas Mooney Sr., Stephen Lynch, and Father Donald Shea, longtime chair\n of the history department at St. Joseph College (Indiana). Mooney was a St. Joseph College alumnus and friend\n of Father Shea. The project was funded by St. Joseph College, and other private funds were solicited, as well.","The project had two parts. In the first part, the organizers interviewed members of the coalition \n individually in their Washington Congressional offices in June 1975. This was followed by a retreat on Hilton Head \n Island, SC in July 1975. Extensive aide memoire printed materials were gathered and given to each member of the coalition \n in advance. The recordings made there were in panel format only, with all of the Fragile Coalition members present.","There are no recordings from this project in the Butler papers. There are transcripts -- once again, there is no\n telling how complete -- from both the individual interviews and the Hilton Head panels. There is a third category of\n transcripts, those with interviewees' corrections handwritten on transcriptions. These corrected copies are from both the \n individual and group sessions. Some of these transcripts were sent to Butler and the Powell Archives by the University\n of Maine's Fogler Library which houses the papers of Fragile Coalition member William Cohen.","Unlike the printed materials that are found throughout the Impeachment series, these books and magazines\n are not government documents. There are copies of Time, Newsweek, and\n Life magazines from the time of the impeachment. There are also books and \n a college thesis giving retropective views on that period.","The \n Bankruptcy Materials are 18\n cu. ft. of papers documenting Butler's work in the\n drafting and passage of the legislation popularly known\n as the Bankruptcy Reform Act of 1978. Forms of materials\n present include: minutes of the Bankruptcy Commission,\n markup books on various versions of bankruptcy bills,\n memoranda, briefing materials, meetings transcripts,\n hearing transcripts, conference materials, Congressional\n Record Notebooks, audio tapes of markup sessions, and\n supplemental information on bankruptcy legislation with\n relevant testimony.","This material was arranged by Butler's office into\n three major components: 1)general materials in\n ring-binder notebooks to which Roman Numerals were\n assigned; 2)\"Supplemental Materials: ... \" filed in\n \"books\" numbered 1-45; and, 3) Ken Klee's research\n materials. The arrangement of these materials is not\n easily grasped, but the donor has provided a \"road map.\"\n A Butler document from around 1980 entitled \"The\n Narrative History of the Bankruptcy Act Revision\"\n provides a concise, informal legislative history of the\n Bankruptcy Reform Act of 1978 from Mr. Butler's\n perspective. It also discusses the creation and\n arrangement of these records and includes references to\n the Roman numeral numbering scheme employed by Butler's\n staff. This narrative is found in the first folder of\n the first box of bankruptcy materials(box 57). A second\n helpful narrative entitled \"The Establishment of the\n Commission\" states the reasons that impelled Congress to\n establish the Commission on Bankruptcy in June of 1970.\n This can be found in box 71 in the folder titled \"Mun.\n 5.\" Ken Klee's article on bankruptcy legislative (box\n 72) may also be of use in understanding events leading\n up to the 1978 act. The article is entitled, \"Congress\n and the Bankruptcy Act of 1976,\" and appeared in volume\n 61 of the \n American Bar Association\n Journal (October, 1975).","The \n general materials have been\n removed from the ring-binders, but the folders that now\n hold them are labeled with the Roman numeral\n corresponding to the binder in which they were formerly\n housed. Everything from 1971 research materials to the\n printed public law version of the 1978 Bankruptcy Reform\n Act can be found here. Books and pamphlets printed by\n the Government Office of Printing are found in Roman\n numeral sections I and III-IX. Included here are the\n Commission on Bankruptcy Laws Report, H.R. 10792, H.R.\n 16643, Hearings on H.R. 31 and H.R. 32, Hearings on S.\n 235, S. 236, H.R. 6, and oversized side-by-side\n comparisons of VI (H) and XIII of H.R. 31 and 32 and S.\n 2266 and H.R. 8200 (stored in box 75).","All of the \"Supplemental Legislation and Testimony\"\n is contained in 45 \"books\" and includes correspondence,\n notes and paste-ups of various sections of proposed\n versions of the bankruptcy bill. Section \"F,\" of XLIII\n \"Conference Materials\" (Box 61, Folder 9 from the\n general materials described above) contains the index to\n the 45 books. Much of the contents are reiterations of\n information from the \"Roman numeral\" notebooks arranged\n for quick reference. Testimony is arranged by bill\n section.","The Ken Klee's bankruptcy files were created while\n Klee served as associate counsel for the Subcommittee on\n Civil and Constitutional Rights of the House Committee\n on the Judiciary. They are 4 cu. ft. in extent and are\n divided into three sections: uniform bankruptcy file,\n municipal bankruptcy file (MUN), and bankruptcy act\n subject files. An index to Klee's files is contained in\n Section \"E\" of XLIII \"Conference Materials\" (Box 61,\n Folder 9). The Uniform Bankruptcy Files are arranged\n numerically beginning with the number 102 and contain\n statements, testimonies, correspondence, memoranda,\n drafts and other relevant materials regarding the\n proposed bankruptcy rules. The Municipal Bankruptcy File\n is arranged numerically. The files are designated MUN\n with a corresponding number. These files also contain\n drafts, testimonies, statements, memorandums and\n reports. Klee's Bankruptcy Subject Files are arranged\n alphabetically. Included here (under 'g') is general\n correspondence from 1973-1978.","#I - LII","(A) \n March 19-June 14, 1971 \n September 15,16-November 15, 1971 \n December 13-January 30,31, 1972 \n April 10-May 1, 1972 \n June 12-September 11-12, 1972 \n October 9-10, 1972 \n November 13-14, 1972 \n December 4-5, 1972","(B) \n December 4-5, 1972 \n January 15-16, 1973 \n February 22-24, 1973 \n March 15-17, 1973 \n April 12-14, 1973 \n June 7-12, 1973","(A) \n (B) \n (C)","(A) \n (B) \n (C)","(E) \n (F) \n (G) \n (H) -- Side-by-Side of H.R. 31 and H.R.\n 32 (2 copies) September 2, 1975. In oversize\n carton 49.","(A) \n (B) \n (C)","(A) \n (B)","(A)","(B) \n (C)","(A) \n (B)","Source 13 260;263 \n Source 14 322-323 \n Source 15 336 \n Source 20 412-415 \n Source 23A 502 \n Source 50 549;554-555 \n Source 30 587-588 \n Source 31 595-596 \n Source 33 612-613","Books for S. 2266 and H.R. 8200; H.R. 31 and H.R. 32\n ","Published by San Diego Urban League,\n Inc.","Enclosed copy of RRRA and RRRRA","Legal Services Corporation\n Act papers consist of one cu. ft. of materials\n concerning the authorization of funding for this entity\n for the fiscal years 1982-1984. Included here are: the\n authorization bill, itself; correspondence; \"discussion\n papers\"; press clippings; transcripts of testimony and\n hearing proceedings. (The one file of material about the\n re-authorization of the Department of Justice follows\n the Legal Services papers.)","The \n Voting Rights Act Extension series comprises Butler's legislative papers as a member of the House Judiciary Committee during the consideration of the extension of this Act.","The \n National Bankruptcy Review\n Commission papers are from Butler's service as a\n member of that body from 1995-1997. These 16 cu. ft. of\n materials include: correspondence; meeting minutes;\n memoranda and documents distributed to commission\n members; and the report of the commission and drafts of\n that report.","Box 91 includes audio cassette of\n \"discharge/reaffirmation hearing,\" 1997.","Bicentennial of American Revolution Flag; Bicentennial Medal, 1976; American College of Bankruptcy Commendation plaque, March 14, 1998.","Navy hat, brass buttons, insignia, pins and dog tags.","Contents: 24\"x36 inch photo of Butler, c. 1961; House Concurrent Resolution 672, July 1, 1976; Washington and Lee University Honorary Doctor of Laws Diploma, June 1, 1978; Birthday card from staff, June 2, 1973; National Small Business Association Certificate of Recognition, October 1978; certificate, Governor George Allen (Virgini) naming Butler to Governor's Advisory Council on Self-Determination and Federalism, November 14, 1994.","There are no restrictions.","English"],"unitid_tesim":["004"],"normalized_title_ssm":["M. Caldwell Butler Papers \n 1945-2006"],"collection_title_tesim":["M. Caldwell Butler Papers \n 1945-2006"],"collection_ssim":["M. Caldwell Butler Papers \n 1945-2006"],"repository_ssm":["Washington and Lee University, Law School"],"repository_ssim":["Washington and Lee University, Law School"],"acqinfo_ssim":["This collection was given to the library by M. Caldwell\n Butler in 1980-1983,1997,1999, 2004 and by his estate in 2015."],"has_online_content_ssim":["false"],"physdesc_tesim":["This collection\n consists of ca. 93 cubic feet of materials."],"accessrestrict_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThe Ford medical and financial records are closed.\u003c/p\u003e"],"accessrestrict_heading_ssm":["Access"],"accessrestrict_tesim":["The Ford medical and financial records are closed."],"bioghist_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eManley Caldwell Butler was born June 2, 1925 in Roanoke,\n Virginia, where he lived most of his life until his death on \n July 28, 2014. Following service in the Navy in World War II,\n he received his A.B. from the University of Richmond\n in 1948 and his J.D. from the University of Virginia Law\n School in 1950. Butler married June Nolde in 1950. This union\n produced four sons: Manley, Henry, James and Marshall.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eButler served as the City of Roanoke Representative in\n 1960-1961. In 1962 he was elected to the Virginia House of\n Delegates. He was elected Minority Leader in 1966, a position\n he held until 1972 when he was elected to the 92nd U.S.\n Congress from the 6th District of Virginia. Butler served the\n 6th District for a decade. While serving on the Judiciary\n Committee, Butler participated in the impeachment action\n against President Richard M. Nixon during the summer of 1974.\n In the aftermath of Nixon's resignation, Butler was involved\n in the confirmation hearings of Gerald R. Ford and Nelson\n Rockefeller to serve as President and Vice President\n respectively. Butler was a principal architect of the\n Bankruptcy Reform Act of 1978. He was also a member of the\n Committee on Government Operations. In retirement, Butler\n served on the National Bankruptcy Review Commission in the\n years 1995-1997. \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA partner in the firm of Woods, Rogers \u0026amp; Hazelgrove of\n Roanoke, Virginia from 1983-1998, Mr. Butler held memberships\n in the American Bar Association, the Virginia State Bar, the\n Roanoke Bar Association, the American College of Bankruptcy,\n the Raven Society, the Order of the Coif, and the Board of\n Directors of Dominion Bank Shares Corp of Roanoke. He was also\n a Fellow of the American Bar Foundation and a Director of the\n American Bankruptcy Institute. His fraternal organization\n affiliations include Phi Beta Kappa, Tau Kappa Alpha, Omicron\n Delta Kappa and Phi Gamma Delta.\u003c/p\u003e"],"bioghist_heading_ssm":["Biographical/Historical Information"],"bioghist_tesim":["Manley Caldwell Butler was born June 2, 1925 in Roanoke,\n Virginia, where he lived most of his life until his death on \n July 28, 2014. Following service in the Navy in World War II,\n he received his A.B. from the University of Richmond\n in 1948 and his J.D. from the University of Virginia Law\n School in 1950. Butler married June Nolde in 1950. This union\n produced four sons: Manley, Henry, James and Marshall.","Butler served as the City of Roanoke Representative in\n 1960-1961. In 1962 he was elected to the Virginia House of\n Delegates. He was elected Minority Leader in 1966, a position\n he held until 1972 when he was elected to the 92nd U.S.\n Congress from the 6th District of Virginia. Butler served the\n 6th District for a decade. While serving on the Judiciary\n Committee, Butler participated in the impeachment action\n against President Richard M. Nixon during the summer of 1974.\n In the aftermath of Nixon's resignation, Butler was involved\n in the confirmation hearings of Gerald R. Ford and Nelson\n Rockefeller to serve as President and Vice President\n respectively. Butler was a principal architect of the\n Bankruptcy Reform Act of 1978. He was also a member of the\n Committee on Government Operations. In retirement, Butler\n served on the National Bankruptcy Review Commission in the\n years 1995-1997. ","A partner in the firm of Woods, Rogers \u0026 Hazelgrove of\n Roanoke, Virginia from 1983-1998, Mr. Butler held memberships\n in the American Bar Association, the Virginia State Bar, the\n Roanoke Bar Association, the American College of Bankruptcy,\n the Raven Society, the Order of the Coif, and the Board of\n Directors of Dominion Bank Shares Corp of Roanoke. He was also\n a Fellow of the American Bar Foundation and a Director of the\n American Bankruptcy Institute. His fraternal organization\n affiliations include Phi Beta Kappa, Tau Kappa Alpha, Omicron\n Delta Kappa and Phi Gamma Delta."],"prefercite_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eM. Caldwell Butler Papers, 1945-2006, Ms 004,\n Lewis F. Powell, Jr. Archives, Washington and Lee\n University School of Law, Lexington, VA\u003c/p\u003e"],"prefercite_tesim":["M. Caldwell Butler Papers, 1945-2006, Ms 004,\n Lewis F. Powell, Jr. Archives, Washington and Lee\n University School of Law, Lexington, VA"],"scopecontent_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThe \n M(anley)Caldwell Butler\n Papers consist of approximately 96 cu. ft. of materials from 1925-2006. Most of the papers cover the periods 1972-1982 and 1995-1997. The papers are divided\n into seventeen series: June Nolde Butler papers; correspondence and subject files; military service; appointment calendars; campaigns; scrapbooks, clippings and photos; speeches; newsletters, press\n releases, radio reports and weekly reports; voting record;\n constituency correspondence; confirmation of Gerald R. Ford as\n Vice President; impeachment of President\n Richard M. Nixon; Bankruptcy Reform Act of 1978;\n Legal Services Corporation; re-authorization of the Department of Justice\n for the Fiscal Year 1982; Voting Rights Act extension; the National Bankruptcy Review\n Commission, 1995-1997; and Artifacts, 1944-1998. With the exceptions of the first six series and National\n Bankruptcy Review Commission materials, these papers were\n generated during Butler's terms as U. S. Representative for\n the 6th Congressional District of Virginia, 1972 -1982 (93rd\n Congress - 97th Congress).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe refinement levels of processing are mixed. The gradual donation of materials over a period \n of 40 years is chiefly the cause. The Nixon Impeachment and Bankruptcy Reform Act of 1978 materials \n are mostly described down to the folder level. The National Bankruptcy Review Commission materials arrived largely self-arranged. \n Most other areas of the colleciton, however, are largely unprocessed beyond being sorted into tentative series.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis is particularly true of additions made in 2018 through the estate of Butler's son, James. This has resulted in a temporary \n box renumbering in boxes 1-7. There is also a box of artifacts added at the end of all of the papers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBiographical materials,general correspondence, correspondence with parents and siblings,Letters, \n invitations, menus, calendars, subject files, photos, clippings, artifacts, photos scrapbook (1933-1950)\n and correspondence (1947-1950) with her future husband, M Caldwell Butler\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNixon Impeachment historical studies; Correspondence re publication of book, Stonewall Jim;\n GOP Gala, 2001; certificates of award and merit; records of naval service; education records \n and related materials.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSubjects include: United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit; \n National Bankruptcy Review Commission; Sarah Butler Memorial; Sam Garrison Bar Discipline; \n Bankruptcy Law; Watergate/Impeachment; Susan Aheron; Butler for Governor; Newspaper Items; \n Legal Services Corporation; The Miller Center; and Virginia Cares.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence, subject files, surveys, election returns, and memorabilia\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIn addition to campaign and general coverage, these scrapbooks treat: editorials mentioning Butler; economic conferences; farm conferences; HUD and FMHA conferences; Lynchburg Weather Station; minority business conferences.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMost of these appear to have been kept by his Congressional Office Staff. They document his day-to-day official activities.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThese also document his official activities.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe recordings range from appearances on \u003ctitle render=\"italic\"\u003eFace the Nation \u003c/title\u003e to local forums.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere is a variety of publications on a variety of mainly political topics. forms of materials include trade books, government documents, brochures, and magazinies. \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eSpeeches\u003c/emph\u003e(1964-2001; bulk 1973-1982) are also\n arranged chronologically. The audience, occasion, and\n location are usually noted. From January 1976 onward, a\n topical index is present in addition to the\n chronological listings that are available for all of the\n years. Some nine speeches are missing from the original\n inventory, while others not on that listing were found\n during processing and added to the finding aid.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eNewsletters\u003c/emph\u003e(1973-1981)were\n generated by Congressman Butler's staff to keep citizens\n of the Sixth District of Virginia informed on issues\n before the House, and on the activities of his office.\n The newsletters(N:) are arranged chronologically with an\n alphabetical reference index that has been updated\n through October 1, 1982. This index includes references\n to Radio Reports(RR#) and Weekly Reports(WR#). News\n (Press) Releases (1972-1982), Radio Reports (1973-1978),\n and Weekly Reports (1979-1982) are arranged\n chronologically and their indices provide brief\n summaries of the topics discussed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe \n \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eMembers Personal Voting\n Record\u003c/emph\u003ecovers the period 1973-1982 (93rd Congress\n First Session to the 97th Congress Second Session). Each\n Congress' voting record is divided into two sessions. A\n cumulative record for each Congress is also present.\n Included here are: roll numbers, dates, daily record\n page number, description, and members response. Each\n record contains a roll call subject guide and an index\n to the voting record. Although Butler began his\n congressional term with the 92nd Congress, there is no\n personal voting record for this time.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe \n \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eConstituency Correspondence\u003c/emph\u003eis\n almost exclusively from the period of the impeachment of\n Richard M. Nixon. The letters are divided into those\n favoring impeachment and those opposed to this action.\n There is also correspondence in reaction to the pardon\n of Nixon by President Gerald R. Ford.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMaterials concerning the \n \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eConfirmation of Gerald R. Ford as\n Vice President\u003c/emph\u003einclude: correspondence, memoranda,\n a briefing book, and transcriptions of testimony and\n proceedings during the hearings.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFord medical and financial records are closed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCongressman Butler sat on the House Judiciary\n committee that investigated and voted on the \n \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eimpeachment of President Richard M.\n Nixon\u003c/emph\u003e. The impeachment materials are 15 cu. ft.\n in extent and include: narratives about the Watergate\n break-in and related events, and about the bombing of\n Cambodia; interview transcripts and recorded testimony\n of persons involved in Watergate activities; general\n impeachment inquiry materials(committee notebooks,\n personal notes, etc.); reports on White House\n Surveillance activities; Department of Justice/ITT\n Litigation; Milk Producers Cooperatives investigations;\n papers re the Judiciary Committee's \"Fragile Coalition\";\n general correspondence and memoranda; and printed\n materials. (See also, the series of constituent\n correspondence that precedes the impeachment materials.\n Butler kept an audio diary during the impeachment\n process, and these cassette recordings are included\n here, as are his written notes from this time. Also\n present are partial transcripts of an oral history\n project on the \"Fragile Coalition\" conducted in\n 1974.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eUnrevised and unedited\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe \n \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003ePrinted Materials\u003c/emph\u003eare primarily government documents\n from the period of the impeachment of\n Richard M. Nixon. Below is an enumeration of the titles present from donor gifts 1980-1983. Titles from additions, 1985-2015 are present in these boxes, but not yet listed below.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBook I: December 2, 1971 - June 17,\n 1972\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBook I: June 19, 1972 - March 1, 1974 \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eBook II: June 17, 1972 - February 9,\n 1973\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBook III: June 20, 1972 - March 22,\n 1973\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBook IV: March 22, 1973 - April 30,\n 1973\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAppendix: Political Matters Memoranda \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eI: Presidential Statements \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eII: Papers in Criminal Cases \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eIII: Supplementary Documents \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eIV: Political Matters memoranda\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eExecutive Session Hearings Before the Select\n Committee on Presidential Campaign Activities\n of the United States Senate, November\n 13,14,15,16, December 4, 11, 1973.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere are three distinct audio recording projects documenting the days of the House\n Judiciary Committee Nixon Impeachment proceedings in July 1974. The first was part audio\n diary and part interviews involving Rep. Butler and reporter Wayne Woodlief. This project \n ran from May to early August 1974, with most of the recordings being from July. The recordings\n of most of these sessions -- some are missing; it is thought to be few, but there is no definitive \n way of knowing -- are in audio cassettes housed in box 55. There is a user set of CDs of these \n recordings in that box, and there are digital audio files of these tapes housed in Box on the Washington and Lee University \n network. There is also an incomplete set of transcripts for this project in box 54. Woodlief \n spoke of trying to produce a book at least partially based on these tapes. He sent such a proposal\n to Butler on July 10, 1975. The only printed product to emerge from these recordings, however, was \n an extensive article in the July 27, 1975 edition of The \u003ctitle render=\"italic\"\u003eRoanoke Times\u003c/title\u003e, \n also published in the \u003ctitle render=\"italic\"\u003eVirginian-Pilot\u003c/title\u003e of the same date.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe second recordings were much more limited in scope. On July 31, 1974, Butler sat down with\n Thomas Mooney, a Judiciary Committee attorney, to record on audiotape, their recollection of \n events as they unfolded on July 22-24. Their primary aim seems to have been capturing the \n drafting of the articles of impeachment. There are transcripts -- again just how complete cannot\n be determined, but not any recordings themselves.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe third project was the most ambitious. It was an attempt to record the Nixon Impeachment memories\n of all of the members of the so-called Fragile Coalition, those Democratic and Republican members of \n the House Judiciary Committee who held the swing votes on impeachment. They came together to draft \n articles of impeachment on which they could all vote \"yes\".\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe organizers of this project were Thomas Mooney Sr., Stephen Lynch, and Father Donald Shea, longtime chair\n of the history department at St. Joseph College (Indiana). Mooney was a St. Joseph College alumnus and friend\n of Father Shea. The project was funded by St. Joseph College, and other private funds were solicited, as well.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe project had two parts. In the first part, the organizers interviewed members of the coalition \n individually in their Washington Congressional offices in June 1975. This was followed by a retreat on Hilton Head \n Island, SC in July 1975. Extensive aide memoire printed materials were gathered and given to each member of the coalition \n in advance. The recordings made there were in panel format only, with all of the Fragile Coalition members present.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere are no recordings from this project in the Butler papers. There are transcripts -- once again, there is no\n telling how complete -- from both the individual interviews and the Hilton Head panels. There is a third category of\n transcripts, those with interviewees' corrections handwritten on transcriptions. These corrected copies are from both the \n individual and group sessions. Some of these transcripts were sent to Butler and the Powell Archives by the University\n of Maine's Fogler Library which houses the papers of Fragile Coalition member William Cohen.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eUnlike the printed materials that are found throughout the Impeachment series, these books and magazines\n are not government documents. There are copies of \u003ctitle render=\"italic\"\u003eTime, Newsweek,\u003c/title\u003e and\n \u003ctitle render=\"italic\"\u003eLife\u003c/title\u003e magazines from the time of the impeachment. There are also books and \n a college thesis giving retropective views on that period.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe \n \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eBankruptcy Materials\u003c/emph\u003eare 18\n cu. ft. of papers documenting Butler's work in the\n drafting and passage of the legislation popularly known\n as the Bankruptcy Reform Act of 1978. Forms of materials\n present include: minutes of the Bankruptcy Commission,\n markup books on various versions of bankruptcy bills,\n memoranda, briefing materials, meetings transcripts,\n hearing transcripts, conference materials, Congressional\n Record Notebooks, audio tapes of markup sessions, and\n supplemental information on bankruptcy legislation with\n relevant testimony.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis material was arranged by Butler's office into\n three major components: 1)general materials in\n ring-binder notebooks to which Roman Numerals were\n assigned; 2)\"Supplemental Materials: ... \" filed in\n \"books\" numbered 1-45; and, 3) Ken Klee's research\n materials. The arrangement of these materials is not\n easily grasped, but the donor has provided a \"road map.\"\n A Butler document from around 1980 entitled \"The\n Narrative History of the Bankruptcy Act Revision\"\n provides a concise, informal legislative history of the\n Bankruptcy Reform Act of 1978 from Mr. Butler's\n perspective. It also discusses the creation and\n arrangement of these records and includes references to\n the Roman numeral numbering scheme employed by Butler's\n staff. This narrative is found in the first folder of\n the first box of bankruptcy materials(box 57). A second\n helpful narrative entitled \"The Establishment of the\n Commission\" states the reasons that impelled Congress to\n establish the Commission on Bankruptcy in June of 1970.\n This can be found in box 71 in the folder titled \"Mun.\n 5.\" Ken Klee's article on bankruptcy legislative (box\n 72) may also be of use in understanding events leading\n up to the 1978 act. The article is entitled, \"Congress\n and the Bankruptcy Act of 1976,\" and appeared in volume\n 61 of the \n \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eAmerican Bar Association\n Journal\u003c/title\u003e(October, 1975).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe \n \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003egeneral materials\u003c/emph\u003ehave been\n removed from the ring-binders, but the folders that now\n hold them are labeled with the Roman numeral\n corresponding to the binder in which they were formerly\n housed. Everything from 1971 research materials to the\n printed public law version of the 1978 Bankruptcy Reform\n Act can be found here. Books and pamphlets printed by\n the Government Office of Printing are found in Roman\n numeral sections I and III-IX. Included here are the\n Commission on Bankruptcy Laws Report, H.R. 10792, H.R.\n 16643, Hearings on H.R. 31 and H.R. 32, Hearings on S.\n 235, S. 236, H.R. 6, and oversized side-by-side\n comparisons of VI (H) and XIII of H.R. 31 and 32 and S.\n 2266 and H.R. 8200 (stored in box 75).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAll of the \"Supplemental Legislation and Testimony\"\n is contained in 45 \"books\" and includes correspondence,\n notes and paste-ups of various sections of proposed\n versions of the bankruptcy bill. Section \"F,\" of XLIII\n \"Conference Materials\" (Box 61, Folder 9 from the\n general materials described above) contains the index to\n the 45 books. Much of the contents are reiterations of\n information from the \"Roman numeral\" notebooks arranged\n for quick reference. Testimony is arranged by bill\n section.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe Ken Klee's bankruptcy files were created while\n Klee served as associate counsel for the Subcommittee on\n Civil and Constitutional Rights of the House Committee\n on the Judiciary. They are 4 cu. ft. in extent and are\n divided into three sections: uniform bankruptcy file,\n municipal bankruptcy file (MUN), and bankruptcy act\n subject files. An index to Klee's files is contained in\n Section \"E\" of XLIII \"Conference Materials\" (Box 61,\n Folder 9). The Uniform Bankruptcy Files are arranged\n numerically beginning with the number 102 and contain\n statements, testimonies, correspondence, memoranda,\n drafts and other relevant materials regarding the\n proposed bankruptcy rules. The Municipal Bankruptcy File\n is arranged numerically. The files are designated MUN\n with a corresponding number. These files also contain\n drafts, testimonies, statements, memorandums and\n reports. Klee's Bankruptcy Subject Files are arranged\n alphabetically. Included here (under 'g') is general\n correspondence from 1973-1978.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e#I - LII\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e(A) \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eMarch 19-June 14, 1971 \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eSeptember 15,16-November 15, 1971 \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eDecember 13-January 30,31, 1972 \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eApril 10-May 1, 1972 \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eJune 12-September 11-12, 1972 \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eOctober 9-10, 1972 \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eNovember 13-14, 1972 \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eDecember 4-5, 1972\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e(B) \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eDecember 4-5, 1972 \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eJanuary 15-16, 1973 \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eFebruary 22-24, 1973 \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eMarch 15-17, 1973 \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eApril 12-14, 1973 \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eJune 7-12, 1973\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e(A) \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e(B) \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e(C)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e(A) \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e(B) \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e(C)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e(E) \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e(F) \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e(G) \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e(H) -- Side-by-Side of H.R. 31 and H.R.\n 32 (2 copies) September 2, 1975. In oversize\n carton 49.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e(A) \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e(B) \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e(C)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e(A) \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e(B)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e(A)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e(B) \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e(C)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e(A) \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e(B)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSource 13 260;263 \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eSource 14 322-323 \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eSource 15 336 \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eSource 20 412-415 \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eSource 23A 502 \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eSource 50 549;554-555 \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eSource 30 587-588 \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eSource 31 595-596 \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eSource 33 612-613\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBooks for S. 2266 and H.R. 8200; H.R. 31 and H.R. 32\n \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePublished by San Diego Urban League,\n Inc.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEnclosed copy of RRRA and RRRRA\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eLegal Services Corporation\n Act\u003c/emph\u003epapers consist of one cu. ft. of materials\n concerning the authorization of funding for this entity\n for the fiscal years 1982-1984. Included here are: the\n authorization bill, itself; correspondence; \"discussion\n papers\"; press clippings; transcripts of testimony and\n hearing proceedings. (The one file of material about the\n re-authorization of the Department of Justice follows\n the Legal Services papers.)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe \n \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eVoting Rights Act Extension\u003c/emph\u003eseries comprises Butler's legislative papers as a member of the House Judiciary Committee during the consideration of the extension of this Act.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe \n \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eNational Bankruptcy Review\n Commission\u003c/emph\u003epapers are from Butler's service as a\n member of that body from 1995-1997. These 16 cu. ft. of\n materials include: correspondence; meeting minutes;\n memoranda and documents distributed to commission\n members; and the report of the commission and drafts of\n that report.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBox 91 includes audio cassette of\n \"discharge/reaffirmation hearing,\" 1997.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBicentennial of American Revolution Flag; Bicentennial Medal, 1976; American College of Bankruptcy Commendation plaque, March 14, 1998.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNavy hat, brass buttons, insignia, pins and dog tags.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eContents: 24\"x36 inch photo of Butler, c. 1961; House Concurrent Resolution 672, July 1, 1976; Washington and Lee University Honorary Doctor of Laws Diploma, June 1, 1978; Birthday card from staff, June 2, 1973; National Small Business Association Certificate of Recognition, October 1978; certificate, Governor George Allen (Virgini) naming Butler to Governor's Advisory Council on Self-Determination and Federalism, November 14, 1994.\u003c/p\u003e"],"scopecontent_heading_ssm":["Scope and Content Information","Scope and Content\n "],"scopecontent_tesim":["The \n M(anley)Caldwell Butler\n Papers consist of approximately 96 cu. ft. of materials from 1925-2006. Most of the papers cover the periods 1972-1982 and 1995-1997. The papers are divided\n into seventeen series: June Nolde Butler papers; correspondence and subject files; military service; appointment calendars; campaigns; scrapbooks, clippings and photos; speeches; newsletters, press\n releases, radio reports and weekly reports; voting record;\n constituency correspondence; confirmation of Gerald R. Ford as\n Vice President; impeachment of President\n Richard M. Nixon; Bankruptcy Reform Act of 1978;\n Legal Services Corporation; re-authorization of the Department of Justice\n for the Fiscal Year 1982; Voting Rights Act extension; the National Bankruptcy Review\n Commission, 1995-1997; and Artifacts, 1944-1998. With the exceptions of the first six series and National\n Bankruptcy Review Commission materials, these papers were\n generated during Butler's terms as U. S. Representative for\n the 6th Congressional District of Virginia, 1972 -1982 (93rd\n Congress - 97th Congress).","The refinement levels of processing are mixed. The gradual donation of materials over a period \n of 40 years is chiefly the cause. The Nixon Impeachment and Bankruptcy Reform Act of 1978 materials \n are mostly described down to the folder level. The National Bankruptcy Review Commission materials arrived largely self-arranged. \n Most other areas of the colleciton, however, are largely unprocessed beyond being sorted into tentative series.","This is particularly true of additions made in 2018 through the estate of Butler's son, James. This has resulted in a temporary \n box renumbering in boxes 1-7. There is also a box of artifacts added at the end of all of the papers.","Biographical materials,general correspondence, correspondence with parents and siblings,Letters, \n invitations, menus, calendars, subject files, photos, clippings, artifacts, photos scrapbook (1933-1950)\n and correspondence (1947-1950) with her future husband, M Caldwell Butler","Nixon Impeachment historical studies; Correspondence re publication of book, Stonewall Jim;\n GOP Gala, 2001; certificates of award and merit; records of naval service; education records \n and related materials.","Subjects include: United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit; \n National Bankruptcy Review Commission; Sarah Butler Memorial; Sam Garrison Bar Discipline; \n Bankruptcy Law; Watergate/Impeachment; Susan Aheron; Butler for Governor; Newspaper Items; \n Legal Services Corporation; The Miller Center; and Virginia Cares.","Correspondence, subject files, surveys, election returns, and memorabilia","In addition to campaign and general coverage, these scrapbooks treat: editorials mentioning Butler; economic conferences; farm conferences; HUD and FMHA conferences; Lynchburg Weather Station; minority business conferences.","Most of these appear to have been kept by his Congressional Office Staff. They document his day-to-day official activities.","These also document his official activities.","The recordings range from appearances on Face the Nation to local forums.","There is a variety of publications on a variety of mainly political topics. forms of materials include trade books, government documents, brochures, and magazinies. ","Speeches (1964-2001; bulk 1973-1982) are also\n arranged chronologically. The audience, occasion, and\n location are usually noted. From January 1976 onward, a\n topical index is present in addition to the\n chronological listings that are available for all of the\n years. Some nine speeches are missing from the original\n inventory, while others not on that listing were found\n during processing and added to the finding aid.","Newsletters (1973-1981)were\n generated by Congressman Butler's staff to keep citizens\n of the Sixth District of Virginia informed on issues\n before the House, and on the activities of his office.\n The newsletters(N:) are arranged chronologically with an\n alphabetical reference index that has been updated\n through October 1, 1982. This index includes references\n to Radio Reports(RR#) and Weekly Reports(WR#). News\n (Press) Releases (1972-1982), Radio Reports (1973-1978),\n and Weekly Reports (1979-1982) are arranged\n chronologically and their indices provide brief\n summaries of the topics discussed.","The \n Members Personal Voting\n Record covers the period 1973-1982 (93rd Congress\n First Session to the 97th Congress Second Session). Each\n Congress' voting record is divided into two sessions. A\n cumulative record for each Congress is also present.\n Included here are: roll numbers, dates, daily record\n page number, description, and members response. Each\n record contains a roll call subject guide and an index\n to the voting record. Although Butler began his\n congressional term with the 92nd Congress, there is no\n personal voting record for this time.","The \n Constituency Correspondence is\n almost exclusively from the period of the impeachment of\n Richard M. Nixon. The letters are divided into those\n favoring impeachment and those opposed to this action.\n There is also correspondence in reaction to the pardon\n of Nixon by President Gerald R. Ford.","Materials concerning the \n Confirmation of Gerald R. Ford as\n Vice President include: correspondence, memoranda,\n a briefing book, and transcriptions of testimony and\n proceedings during the hearings.","Ford medical and financial records are closed.","Congressman Butler sat on the House Judiciary\n committee that investigated and voted on the \n impeachment of President Richard M.\n Nixon . The impeachment materials are 15 cu. ft.\n in extent and include: narratives about the Watergate\n break-in and related events, and about the bombing of\n Cambodia; interview transcripts and recorded testimony\n of persons involved in Watergate activities; general\n impeachment inquiry materials(committee notebooks,\n personal notes, etc.); reports on White House\n Surveillance activities; Department of Justice/ITT\n Litigation; Milk Producers Cooperatives investigations;\n papers re the Judiciary Committee's \"Fragile Coalition\";\n general correspondence and memoranda; and printed\n materials. (See also, the series of constituent\n correspondence that precedes the impeachment materials.\n Butler kept an audio diary during the impeachment\n process, and these cassette recordings are included\n here, as are his written notes from this time. Also\n present are partial transcripts of an oral history\n project on the \"Fragile Coalition\" conducted in\n 1974.","Unrevised and unedited","The \n Printed Materials are primarily government documents\n from the period of the impeachment of\n Richard M. Nixon. Below is an enumeration of the titles present from donor gifts 1980-1983. Titles from additions, 1985-2015 are present in these boxes, but not yet listed below.","Book I: December 2, 1971 - June 17,\n 1972","Book I: June 19, 1972 - March 1, 1974 \n Book II: June 17, 1972 - February 9,\n 1973","Book III: June 20, 1972 - March 22,\n 1973","Book IV: March 22, 1973 - April 30,\n 1973","Appendix: Political Matters Memoranda \n I: Presidential Statements \n II: Papers in Criminal Cases \n III: Supplementary Documents \n IV: Political Matters memoranda","Executive Session Hearings Before the Select\n Committee on Presidential Campaign Activities\n of the United States Senate, November\n 13,14,15,16, December 4, 11, 1973.","There are three distinct audio recording projects documenting the days of the House\n Judiciary Committee Nixon Impeachment proceedings in July 1974. The first was part audio\n diary and part interviews involving Rep. Butler and reporter Wayne Woodlief. This project \n ran from May to early August 1974, with most of the recordings being from July. The recordings\n of most of these sessions -- some are missing; it is thought to be few, but there is no definitive \n way of knowing -- are in audio cassettes housed in box 55. There is a user set of CDs of these \n recordings in that box, and there are digital audio files of these tapes housed in Box on the Washington and Lee University \n network. There is also an incomplete set of transcripts for this project in box 54. Woodlief \n spoke of trying to produce a book at least partially based on these tapes. He sent such a proposal\n to Butler on July 10, 1975. The only printed product to emerge from these recordings, however, was \n an extensive article in the July 27, 1975 edition of The Roanoke Times , \n also published in the Virginian-Pilot of the same date.","The second recordings were much more limited in scope. On July 31, 1974, Butler sat down with\n Thomas Mooney, a Judiciary Committee attorney, to record on audiotape, their recollection of \n events as they unfolded on July 22-24. Their primary aim seems to have been capturing the \n drafting of the articles of impeachment. There are transcripts -- again just how complete cannot\n be determined, but not any recordings themselves.","The third project was the most ambitious. It was an attempt to record the Nixon Impeachment memories\n of all of the members of the so-called Fragile Coalition, those Democratic and Republican members of \n the House Judiciary Committee who held the swing votes on impeachment. They came together to draft \n articles of impeachment on which they could all vote \"yes\".","The organizers of this project were Thomas Mooney Sr., Stephen Lynch, and Father Donald Shea, longtime chair\n of the history department at St. Joseph College (Indiana). Mooney was a St. Joseph College alumnus and friend\n of Father Shea. The project was funded by St. Joseph College, and other private funds were solicited, as well.","The project had two parts. In the first part, the organizers interviewed members of the coalition \n individually in their Washington Congressional offices in June 1975. This was followed by a retreat on Hilton Head \n Island, SC in July 1975. Extensive aide memoire printed materials were gathered and given to each member of the coalition \n in advance. The recordings made there were in panel format only, with all of the Fragile Coalition members present.","There are no recordings from this project in the Butler papers. There are transcripts -- once again, there is no\n telling how complete -- from both the individual interviews and the Hilton Head panels. There is a third category of\n transcripts, those with interviewees' corrections handwritten on transcriptions. These corrected copies are from both the \n individual and group sessions. Some of these transcripts were sent to Butler and the Powell Archives by the University\n of Maine's Fogler Library which houses the papers of Fragile Coalition member William Cohen.","Unlike the printed materials that are found throughout the Impeachment series, these books and magazines\n are not government documents. There are copies of Time, Newsweek, and\n Life magazines from the time of the impeachment. There are also books and \n a college thesis giving retropective views on that period.","The \n Bankruptcy Materials are 18\n cu. ft. of papers documenting Butler's work in the\n drafting and passage of the legislation popularly known\n as the Bankruptcy Reform Act of 1978. Forms of materials\n present include: minutes of the Bankruptcy Commission,\n markup books on various versions of bankruptcy bills,\n memoranda, briefing materials, meetings transcripts,\n hearing transcripts, conference materials, Congressional\n Record Notebooks, audio tapes of markup sessions, and\n supplemental information on bankruptcy legislation with\n relevant testimony.","This material was arranged by Butler's office into\n three major components: 1)general materials in\n ring-binder notebooks to which Roman Numerals were\n assigned; 2)\"Supplemental Materials: ... \" filed in\n \"books\" numbered 1-45; and, 3) Ken Klee's research\n materials. The arrangement of these materials is not\n easily grasped, but the donor has provided a \"road map.\"\n A Butler document from around 1980 entitled \"The\n Narrative History of the Bankruptcy Act Revision\"\n provides a concise, informal legislative history of the\n Bankruptcy Reform Act of 1978 from Mr. Butler's\n perspective. It also discusses the creation and\n arrangement of these records and includes references to\n the Roman numeral numbering scheme employed by Butler's\n staff. This narrative is found in the first folder of\n the first box of bankruptcy materials(box 57). A second\n helpful narrative entitled \"The Establishment of the\n Commission\" states the reasons that impelled Congress to\n establish the Commission on Bankruptcy in June of 1970.\n This can be found in box 71 in the folder titled \"Mun.\n 5.\" Ken Klee's article on bankruptcy legislative (box\n 72) may also be of use in understanding events leading\n up to the 1978 act. The article is entitled, \"Congress\n and the Bankruptcy Act of 1976,\" and appeared in volume\n 61 of the \n American Bar Association\n Journal (October, 1975).","The \n general materials have been\n removed from the ring-binders, but the folders that now\n hold them are labeled with the Roman numeral\n corresponding to the binder in which they were formerly\n housed. Everything from 1971 research materials to the\n printed public law version of the 1978 Bankruptcy Reform\n Act can be found here. Books and pamphlets printed by\n the Government Office of Printing are found in Roman\n numeral sections I and III-IX. Included here are the\n Commission on Bankruptcy Laws Report, H.R. 10792, H.R.\n 16643, Hearings on H.R. 31 and H.R. 32, Hearings on S.\n 235, S. 236, H.R. 6, and oversized side-by-side\n comparisons of VI (H) and XIII of H.R. 31 and 32 and S.\n 2266 and H.R. 8200 (stored in box 75).","All of the \"Supplemental Legislation and Testimony\"\n is contained in 45 \"books\" and includes correspondence,\n notes and paste-ups of various sections of proposed\n versions of the bankruptcy bill. Section \"F,\" of XLIII\n \"Conference Materials\" (Box 61, Folder 9 from the\n general materials described above) contains the index to\n the 45 books. Much of the contents are reiterations of\n information from the \"Roman numeral\" notebooks arranged\n for quick reference. Testimony is arranged by bill\n section.","The Ken Klee's bankruptcy files were created while\n Klee served as associate counsel for the Subcommittee on\n Civil and Constitutional Rights of the House Committee\n on the Judiciary. They are 4 cu. ft. in extent and are\n divided into three sections: uniform bankruptcy file,\n municipal bankruptcy file (MUN), and bankruptcy act\n subject files. An index to Klee's files is contained in\n Section \"E\" of XLIII \"Conference Materials\" (Box 61,\n Folder 9). The Uniform Bankruptcy Files are arranged\n numerically beginning with the number 102 and contain\n statements, testimonies, correspondence, memoranda,\n drafts and other relevant materials regarding the\n proposed bankruptcy rules. The Municipal Bankruptcy File\n is arranged numerically. The files are designated MUN\n with a corresponding number. These files also contain\n drafts, testimonies, statements, memorandums and\n reports. Klee's Bankruptcy Subject Files are arranged\n alphabetically. Included here (under 'g') is general\n correspondence from 1973-1978.","#I - LII","(A) \n March 19-June 14, 1971 \n September 15,16-November 15, 1971 \n December 13-January 30,31, 1972 \n April 10-May 1, 1972 \n June 12-September 11-12, 1972 \n October 9-10, 1972 \n November 13-14, 1972 \n December 4-5, 1972","(B) \n December 4-5, 1972 \n January 15-16, 1973 \n February 22-24, 1973 \n March 15-17, 1973 \n April 12-14, 1973 \n June 7-12, 1973","(A) \n (B) \n (C)","(A) \n (B) \n (C)","(E) \n (F) \n (G) \n (H) -- Side-by-Side of H.R. 31 and H.R.\n 32 (2 copies) September 2, 1975. In oversize\n carton 49.","(A) \n (B) \n (C)","(A) \n (B)","(A)","(B) \n (C)","(A) \n (B)","Source 13 260;263 \n Source 14 322-323 \n Source 15 336 \n Source 20 412-415 \n Source 23A 502 \n Source 50 549;554-555 \n Source 30 587-588 \n Source 31 595-596 \n Source 33 612-613","Books for S. 2266 and H.R. 8200; H.R. 31 and H.R. 32\n ","Published by San Diego Urban League,\n Inc.","Enclosed copy of RRRA and RRRRA","Legal Services Corporation\n Act papers consist of one cu. ft. of materials\n concerning the authorization of funding for this entity\n for the fiscal years 1982-1984. Included here are: the\n authorization bill, itself; correspondence; \"discussion\n papers\"; press clippings; transcripts of testimony and\n hearing proceedings. (The one file of material about the\n re-authorization of the Department of Justice follows\n the Legal Services papers.)","The \n Voting Rights Act Extension series comprises Butler's legislative papers as a member of the House Judiciary Committee during the consideration of the extension of this Act.","The \n National Bankruptcy Review\n Commission papers are from Butler's service as a\n member of that body from 1995-1997. These 16 cu. ft. of\n materials include: correspondence; meeting minutes;\n memoranda and documents distributed to commission\n members; and the report of the commission and drafts of\n that report.","Box 91 includes audio cassette of\n \"discharge/reaffirmation hearing,\" 1997.","Bicentennial of American Revolution Flag; Bicentennial Medal, 1976; American College of Bankruptcy Commendation plaque, March 14, 1998.","Navy hat, brass buttons, insignia, pins and dog tags.","Contents: 24\"x36 inch photo of Butler, c. 1961; House Concurrent Resolution 672, July 1, 1976; Washington and Lee University Honorary Doctor of Laws Diploma, June 1, 1978; Birthday card from staff, June 2, 1973; National Small Business Association Certificate of Recognition, October 1978; certificate, Governor George Allen (Virgini) naming Butler to Governor's Advisory Council on Self-Determination and Federalism, November 14, 1994."],"userestrict_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThere are no restrictions.\u003c/p\u003e"],"userestrict_heading_ssm":["Use Restrictions"],"userestrict_tesim":["There are no restrictions."],"language_ssim":["English"],"total_component_count_is":567,"online_item_count_is":0,"component_level_isim":[0],"sort_isi":0,"timestamp":"2026-05-20T15:09:15.002Z"}]}},"label":"Breadcrumbs"}}},"links":{"self":"https://arvasarchive.org/catalog/vilxwl_vilxwl00003_c11_c03"}},{"id":"vilxwl_vilxwl00003_c16_c02_c01_c05","type":"Item","attributes":{"title":"104a: Berkley Wright \u0026\n Kent Pressan \n May 7, 1975","breadcrumbs":{"id":"https://arvasarchive.org/catalog/vilxwl_vilxwl00003_c16_c02_c01_c05#breadcrumbs","type":"document_value","attributes":{"value":{"ref_ssi":"vilxwl_vilxwl00003_c16_c02_c01_c05","ref_ssm":["vilxwl_vilxwl00003_c16_c02_c01_c05"],"id":"vilxwl_vilxwl00003_c16_c02_c01_c05","ead_ssi":"vilxwl_vilxwl00003","_root_":"vilxwl_vilxwl00003","_nest_parent_":"vilxwl_vilxwl00003_c16_c02_c01","parent_ssi":"vilxwl_vilxwl00003_c16_c02_c01","parent_ssim":["vilxwl_vilxwl00003","vilxwl_vilxwl00003_c16","vilxwl_vilxwl00003_c16_c02","vilxwl_vilxwl00003_c16_c02_c01"],"parent_ids_ssim":["vilxwl_vilxwl00003","vilxwl_vilxwl00003_c16","vilxwl_vilxwl00003_c16_c02","vilxwl_vilxwl00003_c16_c02_c01"],"parent_unittitles_ssm":["M. 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Caldwell Butler Papers \n 1945-2006","This collection\n consists of ca. 93 cubic feet of materials.","The Ford medical and financial records are closed.","Manley Caldwell Butler was born June 2, 1925 in Roanoke,\n Virginia, where he lived most of his life until his death on \n July 28, 2014. Following service in the Navy in World War II,\n he received his A.B. from the University of Richmond\n in 1948 and his J.D. from the University of Virginia Law\n School in 1950. Butler married June Nolde in 1950. This union\n produced four sons: Manley, Henry, James and Marshall.","Butler served as the City of Roanoke Representative in\n 1960-1961. In 1962 he was elected to the Virginia House of\n Delegates. He was elected Minority Leader in 1966, a position\n he held until 1972 when he was elected to the 92nd U.S.\n Congress from the 6th District of Virginia. Butler served the\n 6th District for a decade. While serving on the Judiciary\n Committee, Butler participated in the impeachment action\n against President Richard M. Nixon during the summer of 1974.\n In the aftermath of Nixon's resignation, Butler was involved\n in the confirmation hearings of Gerald R. Ford and Nelson\n Rockefeller to serve as President and Vice President\n respectively. Butler was a principal architect of the\n Bankruptcy Reform Act of 1978. He was also a member of the\n Committee on Government Operations. In retirement, Butler\n served on the National Bankruptcy Review Commission in the\n years 1995-1997. ","A partner in the firm of Woods, Rogers \u0026 Hazelgrove of\n Roanoke, Virginia from 1983-1998, Mr. Butler held memberships\n in the American Bar Association, the Virginia State Bar, the\n Roanoke Bar Association, the American College of Bankruptcy,\n the Raven Society, the Order of the Coif, and the Board of\n Directors of Dominion Bank Shares Corp of Roanoke. He was also\n a Fellow of the American Bar Foundation and a Director of the\n American Bankruptcy Institute. His fraternal organization\n affiliations include Phi Beta Kappa, Tau Kappa Alpha, Omicron\n Delta Kappa and Phi Gamma Delta.","The \n M(anley)Caldwell Butler\n Papers consist of approximately 96 cu. ft. of materials from 1925-2006. Most of the papers cover the periods 1972-1982 and 1995-1997. The papers are divided\n into seventeen series: June Nolde Butler papers; correspondence and subject files; military service; appointment calendars; campaigns; scrapbooks, clippings and photos; speeches; newsletters, press\n releases, radio reports and weekly reports; voting record;\n constituency correspondence; confirmation of Gerald R. Ford as\n Vice President; impeachment of President\n Richard M. Nixon; Bankruptcy Reform Act of 1978;\n Legal Services Corporation; re-authorization of the Department of Justice\n for the Fiscal Year 1982; Voting Rights Act extension; the National Bankruptcy Review\n Commission, 1995-1997; and Artifacts, 1944-1998. With the exceptions of the first six series and National\n Bankruptcy Review Commission materials, these papers were\n generated during Butler's terms as U. S. Representative for\n the 6th Congressional District of Virginia, 1972 -1982 (93rd\n Congress - 97th Congress).","The refinement levels of processing are mixed. The gradual donation of materials over a period \n of 40 years is chiefly the cause. The Nixon Impeachment and Bankruptcy Reform Act of 1978 materials \n are mostly described down to the folder level. The National Bankruptcy Review Commission materials arrived largely self-arranged. \n Most other areas of the colleciton, however, are largely unprocessed beyond being sorted into tentative series.","This is particularly true of additions made in 2018 through the estate of Butler's son, James. This has resulted in a temporary \n box renumbering in boxes 1-7. There is also a box of artifacts added at the end of all of the papers.","Biographical materials,general correspondence, correspondence with parents and siblings,Letters, \n invitations, menus, calendars, subject files, photos, clippings, artifacts, photos scrapbook (1933-1950)\n and correspondence (1947-1950) with her future husband, M Caldwell Butler","Nixon Impeachment historical studies; Correspondence re publication of book, Stonewall Jim;\n GOP Gala, 2001; certificates of award and merit; records of naval service; education records \n and related materials.","Subjects include: United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit; \n National Bankruptcy Review Commission; Sarah Butler Memorial; Sam Garrison Bar Discipline; \n Bankruptcy Law; Watergate/Impeachment; Susan Aheron; Butler for Governor; Newspaper Items; \n Legal Services Corporation; The Miller Center; and Virginia Cares.","Correspondence, subject files, surveys, election returns, and memorabilia","In addition to campaign and general coverage, these scrapbooks treat: editorials mentioning Butler; economic conferences; farm conferences; HUD and FMHA conferences; Lynchburg Weather Station; minority business conferences.","Most of these appear to have been kept by his Congressional Office Staff. They document his day-to-day official activities.","These also document his official activities.","The recordings range from appearances on Face the Nation to local forums.","There is a variety of publications on a variety of mainly political topics. forms of materials include trade books, government documents, brochures, and magazinies. ","Speeches (1964-2001; bulk 1973-1982) are also\n arranged chronologically. The audience, occasion, and\n location are usually noted. From January 1976 onward, a\n topical index is present in addition to the\n chronological listings that are available for all of the\n years. Some nine speeches are missing from the original\n inventory, while others not on that listing were found\n during processing and added to the finding aid.","Newsletters (1973-1981)were\n generated by Congressman Butler's staff to keep citizens\n of the Sixth District of Virginia informed on issues\n before the House, and on the activities of his office.\n The newsletters(N:) are arranged chronologically with an\n alphabetical reference index that has been updated\n through October 1, 1982. This index includes references\n to Radio Reports(RR#) and Weekly Reports(WR#). News\n (Press) Releases (1972-1982), Radio Reports (1973-1978),\n and Weekly Reports (1979-1982) are arranged\n chronologically and their indices provide brief\n summaries of the topics discussed.","The \n Members Personal Voting\n Record covers the period 1973-1982 (93rd Congress\n First Session to the 97th Congress Second Session). Each\n Congress' voting record is divided into two sessions. A\n cumulative record for each Congress is also present.\n Included here are: roll numbers, dates, daily record\n page number, description, and members response. Each\n record contains a roll call subject guide and an index\n to the voting record. Although Butler began his\n congressional term with the 92nd Congress, there is no\n personal voting record for this time.","The \n Constituency Correspondence is\n almost exclusively from the period of the impeachment of\n Richard M. Nixon. The letters are divided into those\n favoring impeachment and those opposed to this action.\n There is also correspondence in reaction to the pardon\n of Nixon by President Gerald R. Ford.","Materials concerning the \n Confirmation of Gerald R. Ford as\n Vice President include: correspondence, memoranda,\n a briefing book, and transcriptions of testimony and\n proceedings during the hearings.","Ford medical and financial records are closed.","Congressman Butler sat on the House Judiciary\n committee that investigated and voted on the \n impeachment of President Richard M.\n Nixon . The impeachment materials are 15 cu. ft.\n in extent and include: narratives about the Watergate\n break-in and related events, and about the bombing of\n Cambodia; interview transcripts and recorded testimony\n of persons involved in Watergate activities; general\n impeachment inquiry materials(committee notebooks,\n personal notes, etc.); reports on White House\n Surveillance activities; Department of Justice/ITT\n Litigation; Milk Producers Cooperatives investigations;\n papers re the Judiciary Committee's \"Fragile Coalition\";\n general correspondence and memoranda; and printed\n materials. (See also, the series of constituent\n correspondence that precedes the impeachment materials.\n Butler kept an audio diary during the impeachment\n process, and these cassette recordings are included\n here, as are his written notes from this time. Also\n present are partial transcripts of an oral history\n project on the \"Fragile Coalition\" conducted in\n 1974.","Unrevised and unedited","The \n Printed Materials are primarily government documents\n from the period of the impeachment of\n Richard M. Nixon. Below is an enumeration of the titles present from donor gifts 1980-1983. Titles from additions, 1985-2015 are present in these boxes, but not yet listed below.","Book I: December 2, 1971 - June 17,\n 1972","Book I: June 19, 1972 - March 1, 1974 \n Book II: June 17, 1972 - February 9,\n 1973","Book III: June 20, 1972 - March 22,\n 1973","Book IV: March 22, 1973 - April 30,\n 1973","Appendix: Political Matters Memoranda \n I: Presidential Statements \n II: Papers in Criminal Cases \n III: Supplementary Documents \n IV: Political Matters memoranda","Executive Session Hearings Before the Select\n Committee on Presidential Campaign Activities\n of the United States Senate, November\n 13,14,15,16, December 4, 11, 1973.","There are three distinct audio recording projects documenting the days of the House\n Judiciary Committee Nixon Impeachment proceedings in July 1974. The first was part audio\n diary and part interviews involving Rep. Butler and reporter Wayne Woodlief. This project \n ran from May to early August 1974, with most of the recordings being from July. The recordings\n of most of these sessions -- some are missing; it is thought to be few, but there is no definitive \n way of knowing -- are in audio cassettes housed in box 55. There is a user set of CDs of these \n recordings in that box, and there are digital audio files of these tapes housed in Box on the Washington and Lee University \n network. There is also an incomplete set of transcripts for this project in box 54. Woodlief \n spoke of trying to produce a book at least partially based on these tapes. He sent such a proposal\n to Butler on July 10, 1975. The only printed product to emerge from these recordings, however, was \n an extensive article in the July 27, 1975 edition of The Roanoke Times , \n also published in the Virginian-Pilot of the same date.","The second recordings were much more limited in scope. On July 31, 1974, Butler sat down with\n Thomas Mooney, a Judiciary Committee attorney, to record on audiotape, their recollection of \n events as they unfolded on July 22-24. Their primary aim seems to have been capturing the \n drafting of the articles of impeachment. There are transcripts -- again just how complete cannot\n be determined, but not any recordings themselves.","The third project was the most ambitious. It was an attempt to record the Nixon Impeachment memories\n of all of the members of the so-called Fragile Coalition, those Democratic and Republican members of \n the House Judiciary Committee who held the swing votes on impeachment. They came together to draft \n articles of impeachment on which they could all vote \"yes\".","The organizers of this project were Thomas Mooney Sr., Stephen Lynch, and Father Donald Shea, longtime chair\n of the history department at St. Joseph College (Indiana). Mooney was a St. Joseph College alumnus and friend\n of Father Shea. The project was funded by St. Joseph College, and other private funds were solicited, as well.","The project had two parts. In the first part, the organizers interviewed members of the coalition \n individually in their Washington Congressional offices in June 1975. This was followed by a retreat on Hilton Head \n Island, SC in July 1975. Extensive aide memoire printed materials were gathered and given to each member of the coalition \n in advance. The recordings made there were in panel format only, with all of the Fragile Coalition members present.","There are no recordings from this project in the Butler papers. There are transcripts -- once again, there is no\n telling how complete -- from both the individual interviews and the Hilton Head panels. There is a third category of\n transcripts, those with interviewees' corrections handwritten on transcriptions. These corrected copies are from both the \n individual and group sessions. Some of these transcripts were sent to Butler and the Powell Archives by the University\n of Maine's Fogler Library which houses the papers of Fragile Coalition member William Cohen.","Unlike the printed materials that are found throughout the Impeachment series, these books and magazines\n are not government documents. There are copies of Time, Newsweek, and\n Life magazines from the time of the impeachment. There are also books and \n a college thesis giving retropective views on that period.","The \n Bankruptcy Materials are 18\n cu. ft. of papers documenting Butler's work in the\n drafting and passage of the legislation popularly known\n as the Bankruptcy Reform Act of 1978. Forms of materials\n present include: minutes of the Bankruptcy Commission,\n markup books on various versions of bankruptcy bills,\n memoranda, briefing materials, meetings transcripts,\n hearing transcripts, conference materials, Congressional\n Record Notebooks, audio tapes of markup sessions, and\n supplemental information on bankruptcy legislation with\n relevant testimony.","This material was arranged by Butler's office into\n three major components: 1)general materials in\n ring-binder notebooks to which Roman Numerals were\n assigned; 2)\"Supplemental Materials: ... \" filed in\n \"books\" numbered 1-45; and, 3) Ken Klee's research\n materials. The arrangement of these materials is not\n easily grasped, but the donor has provided a \"road map.\"\n A Butler document from around 1980 entitled \"The\n Narrative History of the Bankruptcy Act Revision\"\n provides a concise, informal legislative history of the\n Bankruptcy Reform Act of 1978 from Mr. Butler's\n perspective. It also discusses the creation and\n arrangement of these records and includes references to\n the Roman numeral numbering scheme employed by Butler's\n staff. This narrative is found in the first folder of\n the first box of bankruptcy materials(box 57). A second\n helpful narrative entitled \"The Establishment of the\n Commission\" states the reasons that impelled Congress to\n establish the Commission on Bankruptcy in June of 1970.\n This can be found in box 71 in the folder titled \"Mun.\n 5.\" Ken Klee's article on bankruptcy legislative (box\n 72) may also be of use in understanding events leading\n up to the 1978 act. The article is entitled, \"Congress\n and the Bankruptcy Act of 1976,\" and appeared in volume\n 61 of the \n American Bar Association\n Journal (October, 1975).","The \n general materials have been\n removed from the ring-binders, but the folders that now\n hold them are labeled with the Roman numeral\n corresponding to the binder in which they were formerly\n housed. Everything from 1971 research materials to the\n printed public law version of the 1978 Bankruptcy Reform\n Act can be found here. Books and pamphlets printed by\n the Government Office of Printing are found in Roman\n numeral sections I and III-IX. Included here are the\n Commission on Bankruptcy Laws Report, H.R. 10792, H.R.\n 16643, Hearings on H.R. 31 and H.R. 32, Hearings on S.\n 235, S. 236, H.R. 6, and oversized side-by-side\n comparisons of VI (H) and XIII of H.R. 31 and 32 and S.\n 2266 and H.R. 8200 (stored in box 75).","All of the \"Supplemental Legislation and Testimony\"\n is contained in 45 \"books\" and includes correspondence,\n notes and paste-ups of various sections of proposed\n versions of the bankruptcy bill. Section \"F,\" of XLIII\n \"Conference Materials\" (Box 61, Folder 9 from the\n general materials described above) contains the index to\n the 45 books. Much of the contents are reiterations of\n information from the \"Roman numeral\" notebooks arranged\n for quick reference. Testimony is arranged by bill\n section.","The Ken Klee's bankruptcy files were created while\n Klee served as associate counsel for the Subcommittee on\n Civil and Constitutional Rights of the House Committee\n on the Judiciary. They are 4 cu. ft. in extent and are\n divided into three sections: uniform bankruptcy file,\n municipal bankruptcy file (MUN), and bankruptcy act\n subject files. An index to Klee's files is contained in\n Section \"E\" of XLIII \"Conference Materials\" (Box 61,\n Folder 9). The Uniform Bankruptcy Files are arranged\n numerically beginning with the number 102 and contain\n statements, testimonies, correspondence, memoranda,\n drafts and other relevant materials regarding the\n proposed bankruptcy rules. The Municipal Bankruptcy File\n is arranged numerically. The files are designated MUN\n with a corresponding number. These files also contain\n drafts, testimonies, statements, memorandums and\n reports. Klee's Bankruptcy Subject Files are arranged\n alphabetically. Included here (under 'g') is general\n correspondence from 1973-1978.","#I - LII","(A) \n March 19-June 14, 1971 \n September 15,16-November 15, 1971 \n December 13-January 30,31, 1972 \n April 10-May 1, 1972 \n June 12-September 11-12, 1972 \n October 9-10, 1972 \n November 13-14, 1972 \n December 4-5, 1972","(B) \n December 4-5, 1972 \n January 15-16, 1973 \n February 22-24, 1973 \n March 15-17, 1973 \n April 12-14, 1973 \n June 7-12, 1973","(A) \n (B) \n (C)","(A) \n (B) \n (C)","(E) \n (F) \n (G) \n (H) -- Side-by-Side of H.R. 31 and H.R.\n 32 (2 copies) September 2, 1975. In oversize\n carton 49.","(A) \n (B) \n (C)","(A) \n (B)","(A)","(B) \n (C)","(A) \n (B)","Source 13 260;263 \n Source 14 322-323 \n Source 15 336 \n Source 20 412-415 \n Source 23A 502 \n Source 50 549;554-555 \n Source 30 587-588 \n Source 31 595-596 \n Source 33 612-613","Books for S. 2266 and H.R. 8200; H.R. 31 and H.R. 32\n ","Published by San Diego Urban League,\n Inc.","Enclosed copy of RRRA and RRRRA","Legal Services Corporation\n Act papers consist of one cu. ft. of materials\n concerning the authorization of funding for this entity\n for the fiscal years 1982-1984. Included here are: the\n authorization bill, itself; correspondence; \"discussion\n papers\"; press clippings; transcripts of testimony and\n hearing proceedings. (The one file of material about the\n re-authorization of the Department of Justice follows\n the Legal Services papers.)","The \n Voting Rights Act Extension series comprises Butler's legislative papers as a member of the House Judiciary Committee during the consideration of the extension of this Act.","The \n National Bankruptcy Review\n Commission papers are from Butler's service as a\n member of that body from 1995-1997. These 16 cu. ft. of\n materials include: correspondence; meeting minutes;\n memoranda and documents distributed to commission\n members; and the report of the commission and drafts of\n that report.","Box 91 includes audio cassette of\n \"discharge/reaffirmation hearing,\" 1997.","Bicentennial of American Revolution Flag; Bicentennial Medal, 1976; American College of Bankruptcy Commendation plaque, March 14, 1998.","Navy hat, brass buttons, insignia, pins and dog tags.","Contents: 24\"x36 inch photo of Butler, c. 1961; House Concurrent Resolution 672, July 1, 1976; Washington and Lee University Honorary Doctor of Laws Diploma, June 1, 1978; Birthday card from staff, June 2, 1973; National Small Business Association Certificate of Recognition, October 1978; certificate, Governor George Allen (Virgini) naming Butler to Governor's Advisory Council on Self-Determination and Federalism, November 14, 1994.","There are no restrictions.","English"],"unitid_tesim":["004"],"normalized_title_ssm":["M. 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Following service in the Navy in World War II,\n he received his A.B. from the University of Richmond\n in 1948 and his J.D. from the University of Virginia Law\n School in 1950. Butler married June Nolde in 1950. This union\n produced four sons: Manley, Henry, James and Marshall.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eButler served as the City of Roanoke Representative in\n 1960-1961. In 1962 he was elected to the Virginia House of\n Delegates. He was elected Minority Leader in 1966, a position\n he held until 1972 when he was elected to the 92nd U.S.\n Congress from the 6th District of Virginia. Butler served the\n 6th District for a decade. While serving on the Judiciary\n Committee, Butler participated in the impeachment action\n against President Richard M. Nixon during the summer of 1974.\n In the aftermath of Nixon's resignation, Butler was involved\n in the confirmation hearings of Gerald R. Ford and Nelson\n Rockefeller to serve as President and Vice President\n respectively. Butler was a principal architect of the\n Bankruptcy Reform Act of 1978. He was also a member of the\n Committee on Government Operations. In retirement, Butler\n served on the National Bankruptcy Review Commission in the\n years 1995-1997. \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA partner in the firm of Woods, Rogers \u0026amp; Hazelgrove of\n Roanoke, Virginia from 1983-1998, Mr. Butler held memberships\n in the American Bar Association, the Virginia State Bar, the\n Roanoke Bar Association, the American College of Bankruptcy,\n the Raven Society, the Order of the Coif, and the Board of\n Directors of Dominion Bank Shares Corp of Roanoke. He was also\n a Fellow of the American Bar Foundation and a Director of the\n American Bankruptcy Institute. His fraternal organization\n affiliations include Phi Beta Kappa, Tau Kappa Alpha, Omicron\n Delta Kappa and Phi Gamma Delta.\u003c/p\u003e"],"bioghist_heading_ssm":["Biographical/Historical Information"],"bioghist_tesim":["Manley Caldwell Butler was born June 2, 1925 in Roanoke,\n Virginia, where he lived most of his life until his death on \n July 28, 2014. Following service in the Navy in World War II,\n he received his A.B. from the University of Richmond\n in 1948 and his J.D. from the University of Virginia Law\n School in 1950. Butler married June Nolde in 1950. This union\n produced four sons: Manley, Henry, James and Marshall.","Butler served as the City of Roanoke Representative in\n 1960-1961. In 1962 he was elected to the Virginia House of\n Delegates. He was elected Minority Leader in 1966, a position\n he held until 1972 when he was elected to the 92nd U.S.\n Congress from the 6th District of Virginia. Butler served the\n 6th District for a decade. While serving on the Judiciary\n Committee, Butler participated in the impeachment action\n against President Richard M. Nixon during the summer of 1974.\n In the aftermath of Nixon's resignation, Butler was involved\n in the confirmation hearings of Gerald R. Ford and Nelson\n Rockefeller to serve as President and Vice President\n respectively. Butler was a principal architect of the\n Bankruptcy Reform Act of 1978. He was also a member of the\n Committee on Government Operations. In retirement, Butler\n served on the National Bankruptcy Review Commission in the\n years 1995-1997. ","A partner in the firm of Woods, Rogers \u0026 Hazelgrove of\n Roanoke, Virginia from 1983-1998, Mr. Butler held memberships\n in the American Bar Association, the Virginia State Bar, the\n Roanoke Bar Association, the American College of Bankruptcy,\n the Raven Society, the Order of the Coif, and the Board of\n Directors of Dominion Bank Shares Corp of Roanoke. He was also\n a Fellow of the American Bar Foundation and a Director of the\n American Bankruptcy Institute. His fraternal organization\n affiliations include Phi Beta Kappa, Tau Kappa Alpha, Omicron\n Delta Kappa and Phi Gamma Delta."],"prefercite_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eM. Caldwell Butler Papers, 1945-2006, Ms 004,\n Lewis F. Powell, Jr. Archives, Washington and Lee\n University School of Law, Lexington, VA\u003c/p\u003e"],"prefercite_tesim":["M. Caldwell Butler Papers, 1945-2006, Ms 004,\n Lewis F. Powell, Jr. Archives, Washington and Lee\n University School of Law, Lexington, VA"],"scopecontent_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThe \n M(anley)Caldwell Butler\n Papers consist of approximately 96 cu. ft. of materials from 1925-2006. Most of the papers cover the periods 1972-1982 and 1995-1997. The papers are divided\n into seventeen series: June Nolde Butler papers; correspondence and subject files; military service; appointment calendars; campaigns; scrapbooks, clippings and photos; speeches; newsletters, press\n releases, radio reports and weekly reports; voting record;\n constituency correspondence; confirmation of Gerald R. Ford as\n Vice President; impeachment of President\n Richard M. Nixon; Bankruptcy Reform Act of 1978;\n Legal Services Corporation; re-authorization of the Department of Justice\n for the Fiscal Year 1982; Voting Rights Act extension; the National Bankruptcy Review\n Commission, 1995-1997; and Artifacts, 1944-1998. With the exceptions of the first six series and National\n Bankruptcy Review Commission materials, these papers were\n generated during Butler's terms as U. S. Representative for\n the 6th Congressional District of Virginia, 1972 -1982 (93rd\n Congress - 97th Congress).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe refinement levels of processing are mixed. The gradual donation of materials over a period \n of 40 years is chiefly the cause. The Nixon Impeachment and Bankruptcy Reform Act of 1978 materials \n are mostly described down to the folder level. The National Bankruptcy Review Commission materials arrived largely self-arranged. \n Most other areas of the colleciton, however, are largely unprocessed beyond being sorted into tentative series.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis is particularly true of additions made in 2018 through the estate of Butler's son, James. This has resulted in a temporary \n box renumbering in boxes 1-7. There is also a box of artifacts added at the end of all of the papers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBiographical materials,general correspondence, correspondence with parents and siblings,Letters, \n invitations, menus, calendars, subject files, photos, clippings, artifacts, photos scrapbook (1933-1950)\n and correspondence (1947-1950) with her future husband, M Caldwell Butler\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNixon Impeachment historical studies; Correspondence re publication of book, Stonewall Jim;\n GOP Gala, 2001; certificates of award and merit; records of naval service; education records \n and related materials.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSubjects include: United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit; \n National Bankruptcy Review Commission; Sarah Butler Memorial; Sam Garrison Bar Discipline; \n Bankruptcy Law; Watergate/Impeachment; Susan Aheron; Butler for Governor; Newspaper Items; \n Legal Services Corporation; The Miller Center; and Virginia Cares.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence, subject files, surveys, election returns, and memorabilia\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIn addition to campaign and general coverage, these scrapbooks treat: editorials mentioning Butler; economic conferences; farm conferences; HUD and FMHA conferences; Lynchburg Weather Station; minority business conferences.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMost of these appear to have been kept by his Congressional Office Staff. They document his day-to-day official activities.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThese also document his official activities.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe recordings range from appearances on \u003ctitle render=\"italic\"\u003eFace the Nation \u003c/title\u003e to local forums.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere is a variety of publications on a variety of mainly political topics. forms of materials include trade books, government documents, brochures, and magazinies. \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eSpeeches\u003c/emph\u003e(1964-2001; bulk 1973-1982) are also\n arranged chronologically. The audience, occasion, and\n location are usually noted. From January 1976 onward, a\n topical index is present in addition to the\n chronological listings that are available for all of the\n years. Some nine speeches are missing from the original\n inventory, while others not on that listing were found\n during processing and added to the finding aid.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eNewsletters\u003c/emph\u003e(1973-1981)were\n generated by Congressman Butler's staff to keep citizens\n of the Sixth District of Virginia informed on issues\n before the House, and on the activities of his office.\n The newsletters(N:) are arranged chronologically with an\n alphabetical reference index that has been updated\n through October 1, 1982. This index includes references\n to Radio Reports(RR#) and Weekly Reports(WR#). News\n (Press) Releases (1972-1982), Radio Reports (1973-1978),\n and Weekly Reports (1979-1982) are arranged\n chronologically and their indices provide brief\n summaries of the topics discussed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe \n \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eMembers Personal Voting\n Record\u003c/emph\u003ecovers the period 1973-1982 (93rd Congress\n First Session to the 97th Congress Second Session). Each\n Congress' voting record is divided into two sessions. A\n cumulative record for each Congress is also present.\n Included here are: roll numbers, dates, daily record\n page number, description, and members response. Each\n record contains a roll call subject guide and an index\n to the voting record. Although Butler began his\n congressional term with the 92nd Congress, there is no\n personal voting record for this time.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe \n \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eConstituency Correspondence\u003c/emph\u003eis\n almost exclusively from the period of the impeachment of\n Richard M. Nixon. The letters are divided into those\n favoring impeachment and those opposed to this action.\n There is also correspondence in reaction to the pardon\n of Nixon by President Gerald R. Ford.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMaterials concerning the \n \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eConfirmation of Gerald R. Ford as\n Vice President\u003c/emph\u003einclude: correspondence, memoranda,\n a briefing book, and transcriptions of testimony and\n proceedings during the hearings.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFord medical and financial records are closed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCongressman Butler sat on the House Judiciary\n committee that investigated and voted on the \n \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eimpeachment of President Richard M.\n Nixon\u003c/emph\u003e. The impeachment materials are 15 cu. ft.\n in extent and include: narratives about the Watergate\n break-in and related events, and about the bombing of\n Cambodia; interview transcripts and recorded testimony\n of persons involved in Watergate activities; general\n impeachment inquiry materials(committee notebooks,\n personal notes, etc.); reports on White House\n Surveillance activities; Department of Justice/ITT\n Litigation; Milk Producers Cooperatives investigations;\n papers re the Judiciary Committee's \"Fragile Coalition\";\n general correspondence and memoranda; and printed\n materials. (See also, the series of constituent\n correspondence that precedes the impeachment materials.\n Butler kept an audio diary during the impeachment\n process, and these cassette recordings are included\n here, as are his written notes from this time. Also\n present are partial transcripts of an oral history\n project on the \"Fragile Coalition\" conducted in\n 1974.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eUnrevised and unedited\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe \n \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003ePrinted Materials\u003c/emph\u003eare primarily government documents\n from the period of the impeachment of\n Richard M. Nixon. Below is an enumeration of the titles present from donor gifts 1980-1983. Titles from additions, 1985-2015 are present in these boxes, but not yet listed below.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBook I: December 2, 1971 - June 17,\n 1972\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBook I: June 19, 1972 - March 1, 1974 \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eBook II: June 17, 1972 - February 9,\n 1973\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBook III: June 20, 1972 - March 22,\n 1973\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBook IV: March 22, 1973 - April 30,\n 1973\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAppendix: Political Matters Memoranda \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eI: Presidential Statements \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eII: Papers in Criminal Cases \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eIII: Supplementary Documents \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eIV: Political Matters memoranda\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eExecutive Session Hearings Before the Select\n Committee on Presidential Campaign Activities\n of the United States Senate, November\n 13,14,15,16, December 4, 11, 1973.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere are three distinct audio recording projects documenting the days of the House\n Judiciary Committee Nixon Impeachment proceedings in July 1974. The first was part audio\n diary and part interviews involving Rep. Butler and reporter Wayne Woodlief. This project \n ran from May to early August 1974, with most of the recordings being from July. The recordings\n of most of these sessions -- some are missing; it is thought to be few, but there is no definitive \n way of knowing -- are in audio cassettes housed in box 55. There is a user set of CDs of these \n recordings in that box, and there are digital audio files of these tapes housed in Box on the Washington and Lee University \n network. There is also an incomplete set of transcripts for this project in box 54. Woodlief \n spoke of trying to produce a book at least partially based on these tapes. He sent such a proposal\n to Butler on July 10, 1975. The only printed product to emerge from these recordings, however, was \n an extensive article in the July 27, 1975 edition of The \u003ctitle render=\"italic\"\u003eRoanoke Times\u003c/title\u003e, \n also published in the \u003ctitle render=\"italic\"\u003eVirginian-Pilot\u003c/title\u003e of the same date.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe second recordings were much more limited in scope. On July 31, 1974, Butler sat down with\n Thomas Mooney, a Judiciary Committee attorney, to record on audiotape, their recollection of \n events as they unfolded on July 22-24. Their primary aim seems to have been capturing the \n drafting of the articles of impeachment. There are transcripts -- again just how complete cannot\n be determined, but not any recordings themselves.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe third project was the most ambitious. It was an attempt to record the Nixon Impeachment memories\n of all of the members of the so-called Fragile Coalition, those Democratic and Republican members of \n the House Judiciary Committee who held the swing votes on impeachment. They came together to draft \n articles of impeachment on which they could all vote \"yes\".\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe organizers of this project were Thomas Mooney Sr., Stephen Lynch, and Father Donald Shea, longtime chair\n of the history department at St. Joseph College (Indiana). Mooney was a St. Joseph College alumnus and friend\n of Father Shea. The project was funded by St. Joseph College, and other private funds were solicited, as well.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe project had two parts. In the first part, the organizers interviewed members of the coalition \n individually in their Washington Congressional offices in June 1975. This was followed by a retreat on Hilton Head \n Island, SC in July 1975. Extensive aide memoire printed materials were gathered and given to each member of the coalition \n in advance. The recordings made there were in panel format only, with all of the Fragile Coalition members present.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere are no recordings from this project in the Butler papers. There are transcripts -- once again, there is no\n telling how complete -- from both the individual interviews and the Hilton Head panels. There is a third category of\n transcripts, those with interviewees' corrections handwritten on transcriptions. These corrected copies are from both the \n individual and group sessions. Some of these transcripts were sent to Butler and the Powell Archives by the University\n of Maine's Fogler Library which houses the papers of Fragile Coalition member William Cohen.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eUnlike the printed materials that are found throughout the Impeachment series, these books and magazines\n are not government documents. There are copies of \u003ctitle render=\"italic\"\u003eTime, Newsweek,\u003c/title\u003e and\n \u003ctitle render=\"italic\"\u003eLife\u003c/title\u003e magazines from the time of the impeachment. There are also books and \n a college thesis giving retropective views on that period.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe \n \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eBankruptcy Materials\u003c/emph\u003eare 18\n cu. ft. of papers documenting Butler's work in the\n drafting and passage of the legislation popularly known\n as the Bankruptcy Reform Act of 1978. Forms of materials\n present include: minutes of the Bankruptcy Commission,\n markup books on various versions of bankruptcy bills,\n memoranda, briefing materials, meetings transcripts,\n hearing transcripts, conference materials, Congressional\n Record Notebooks, audio tapes of markup sessions, and\n supplemental information on bankruptcy legislation with\n relevant testimony.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis material was arranged by Butler's office into\n three major components: 1)general materials in\n ring-binder notebooks to which Roman Numerals were\n assigned; 2)\"Supplemental Materials: ... \" filed in\n \"books\" numbered 1-45; and, 3) Ken Klee's research\n materials. The arrangement of these materials is not\n easily grasped, but the donor has provided a \"road map.\"\n A Butler document from around 1980 entitled \"The\n Narrative History of the Bankruptcy Act Revision\"\n provides a concise, informal legislative history of the\n Bankruptcy Reform Act of 1978 from Mr. Butler's\n perspective. It also discusses the creation and\n arrangement of these records and includes references to\n the Roman numeral numbering scheme employed by Butler's\n staff. This narrative is found in the first folder of\n the first box of bankruptcy materials(box 57). A second\n helpful narrative entitled \"The Establishment of the\n Commission\" states the reasons that impelled Congress to\n establish the Commission on Bankruptcy in June of 1970.\n This can be found in box 71 in the folder titled \"Mun.\n 5.\" Ken Klee's article on bankruptcy legislative (box\n 72) may also be of use in understanding events leading\n up to the 1978 act. The article is entitled, \"Congress\n and the Bankruptcy Act of 1976,\" and appeared in volume\n 61 of the \n \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eAmerican Bar Association\n Journal\u003c/title\u003e(October, 1975).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe \n \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003egeneral materials\u003c/emph\u003ehave been\n removed from the ring-binders, but the folders that now\n hold them are labeled with the Roman numeral\n corresponding to the binder in which they were formerly\n housed. Everything from 1971 research materials to the\n printed public law version of the 1978 Bankruptcy Reform\n Act can be found here. Books and pamphlets printed by\n the Government Office of Printing are found in Roman\n numeral sections I and III-IX. Included here are the\n Commission on Bankruptcy Laws Report, H.R. 10792, H.R.\n 16643, Hearings on H.R. 31 and H.R. 32, Hearings on S.\n 235, S. 236, H.R. 6, and oversized side-by-side\n comparisons of VI (H) and XIII of H.R. 31 and 32 and S.\n 2266 and H.R. 8200 (stored in box 75).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAll of the \"Supplemental Legislation and Testimony\"\n is contained in 45 \"books\" and includes correspondence,\n notes and paste-ups of various sections of proposed\n versions of the bankruptcy bill. Section \"F,\" of XLIII\n \"Conference Materials\" (Box 61, Folder 9 from the\n general materials described above) contains the index to\n the 45 books. Much of the contents are reiterations of\n information from the \"Roman numeral\" notebooks arranged\n for quick reference. Testimony is arranged by bill\n section.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe Ken Klee's bankruptcy files were created while\n Klee served as associate counsel for the Subcommittee on\n Civil and Constitutional Rights of the House Committee\n on the Judiciary. They are 4 cu. ft. in extent and are\n divided into three sections: uniform bankruptcy file,\n municipal bankruptcy file (MUN), and bankruptcy act\n subject files. An index to Klee's files is contained in\n Section \"E\" of XLIII \"Conference Materials\" (Box 61,\n Folder 9). The Uniform Bankruptcy Files are arranged\n numerically beginning with the number 102 and contain\n statements, testimonies, correspondence, memoranda,\n drafts and other relevant materials regarding the\n proposed bankruptcy rules. The Municipal Bankruptcy File\n is arranged numerically. The files are designated MUN\n with a corresponding number. These files also contain\n drafts, testimonies, statements, memorandums and\n reports. Klee's Bankruptcy Subject Files are arranged\n alphabetically. Included here (under 'g') is general\n correspondence from 1973-1978.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e#I - LII\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e(A) \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eMarch 19-June 14, 1971 \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eSeptember 15,16-November 15, 1971 \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eDecember 13-January 30,31, 1972 \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eApril 10-May 1, 1972 \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eJune 12-September 11-12, 1972 \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eOctober 9-10, 1972 \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eNovember 13-14, 1972 \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eDecember 4-5, 1972\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e(B) \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eDecember 4-5, 1972 \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eJanuary 15-16, 1973 \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eFebruary 22-24, 1973 \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eMarch 15-17, 1973 \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eApril 12-14, 1973 \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eJune 7-12, 1973\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e(A) \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e(B) \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e(C)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e(A) \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e(B) \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e(C)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e(E) \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e(F) \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e(G) \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e(H) -- Side-by-Side of H.R. 31 and H.R.\n 32 (2 copies) September 2, 1975. In oversize\n carton 49.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e(A) \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e(B) \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e(C)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e(A) \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e(B)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e(A)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e(B) \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e(C)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e(A) \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e(B)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSource 13 260;263 \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eSource 14 322-323 \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eSource 15 336 \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eSource 20 412-415 \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eSource 23A 502 \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eSource 50 549;554-555 \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eSource 30 587-588 \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eSource 31 595-596 \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eSource 33 612-613\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBooks for S. 2266 and H.R. 8200; H.R. 31 and H.R. 32\n \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePublished by San Diego Urban League,\n Inc.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEnclosed copy of RRRA and RRRRA\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eLegal Services Corporation\n Act\u003c/emph\u003epapers consist of one cu. ft. of materials\n concerning the authorization of funding for this entity\n for the fiscal years 1982-1984. Included here are: the\n authorization bill, itself; correspondence; \"discussion\n papers\"; press clippings; transcripts of testimony and\n hearing proceedings. (The one file of material about the\n re-authorization of the Department of Justice follows\n the Legal Services papers.)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe \n \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eVoting Rights Act Extension\u003c/emph\u003eseries comprises Butler's legislative papers as a member of the House Judiciary Committee during the consideration of the extension of this Act.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe \n \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eNational Bankruptcy Review\n Commission\u003c/emph\u003epapers are from Butler's service as a\n member of that body from 1995-1997. These 16 cu. ft. of\n materials include: correspondence; meeting minutes;\n memoranda and documents distributed to commission\n members; and the report of the commission and drafts of\n that report.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBox 91 includes audio cassette of\n \"discharge/reaffirmation hearing,\" 1997.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBicentennial of American Revolution Flag; Bicentennial Medal, 1976; American College of Bankruptcy Commendation plaque, March 14, 1998.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNavy hat, brass buttons, insignia, pins and dog tags.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eContents: 24\"x36 inch photo of Butler, c. 1961; House Concurrent Resolution 672, July 1, 1976; Washington and Lee University Honorary Doctor of Laws Diploma, June 1, 1978; Birthday card from staff, June 2, 1973; National Small Business Association Certificate of Recognition, October 1978; certificate, Governor George Allen (Virgini) naming Butler to Governor's Advisory Council on Self-Determination and Federalism, November 14, 1994.\u003c/p\u003e"],"scopecontent_heading_ssm":["Scope and Content Information","Scope and Content\n "],"scopecontent_tesim":["The \n M(anley)Caldwell Butler\n Papers consist of approximately 96 cu. ft. of materials from 1925-2006. Most of the papers cover the periods 1972-1982 and 1995-1997. The papers are divided\n into seventeen series: June Nolde Butler papers; correspondence and subject files; military service; appointment calendars; campaigns; scrapbooks, clippings and photos; speeches; newsletters, press\n releases, radio reports and weekly reports; voting record;\n constituency correspondence; confirmation of Gerald R. Ford as\n Vice President; impeachment of President\n Richard M. Nixon; Bankruptcy Reform Act of 1978;\n Legal Services Corporation; re-authorization of the Department of Justice\n for the Fiscal Year 1982; Voting Rights Act extension; the National Bankruptcy Review\n Commission, 1995-1997; and Artifacts, 1944-1998. With the exceptions of the first six series and National\n Bankruptcy Review Commission materials, these papers were\n generated during Butler's terms as U. S. Representative for\n the 6th Congressional District of Virginia, 1972 -1982 (93rd\n Congress - 97th Congress).","The refinement levels of processing are mixed. The gradual donation of materials over a period \n of 40 years is chiefly the cause. The Nixon Impeachment and Bankruptcy Reform Act of 1978 materials \n are mostly described down to the folder level. The National Bankruptcy Review Commission materials arrived largely self-arranged. \n Most other areas of the colleciton, however, are largely unprocessed beyond being sorted into tentative series.","This is particularly true of additions made in 2018 through the estate of Butler's son, James. This has resulted in a temporary \n box renumbering in boxes 1-7. There is also a box of artifacts added at the end of all of the papers.","Biographical materials,general correspondence, correspondence with parents and siblings,Letters, \n invitations, menus, calendars, subject files, photos, clippings, artifacts, photos scrapbook (1933-1950)\n and correspondence (1947-1950) with her future husband, M Caldwell Butler","Nixon Impeachment historical studies; Correspondence re publication of book, Stonewall Jim;\n GOP Gala, 2001; certificates of award and merit; records of naval service; education records \n and related materials.","Subjects include: United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit; \n National Bankruptcy Review Commission; Sarah Butler Memorial; Sam Garrison Bar Discipline; \n Bankruptcy Law; Watergate/Impeachment; Susan Aheron; Butler for Governor; Newspaper Items; \n Legal Services Corporation; The Miller Center; and Virginia Cares.","Correspondence, subject files, surveys, election returns, and memorabilia","In addition to campaign and general coverage, these scrapbooks treat: editorials mentioning Butler; economic conferences; farm conferences; HUD and FMHA conferences; Lynchburg Weather Station; minority business conferences.","Most of these appear to have been kept by his Congressional Office Staff. They document his day-to-day official activities.","These also document his official activities.","The recordings range from appearances on Face the Nation to local forums.","There is a variety of publications on a variety of mainly political topics. forms of materials include trade books, government documents, brochures, and magazinies. ","Speeches (1964-2001; bulk 1973-1982) are also\n arranged chronologically. The audience, occasion, and\n location are usually noted. From January 1976 onward, a\n topical index is present in addition to the\n chronological listings that are available for all of the\n years. Some nine speeches are missing from the original\n inventory, while others not on that listing were found\n during processing and added to the finding aid.","Newsletters (1973-1981)were\n generated by Congressman Butler's staff to keep citizens\n of the Sixth District of Virginia informed on issues\n before the House, and on the activities of his office.\n The newsletters(N:) are arranged chronologically with an\n alphabetical reference index that has been updated\n through October 1, 1982. This index includes references\n to Radio Reports(RR#) and Weekly Reports(WR#). News\n (Press) Releases (1972-1982), Radio Reports (1973-1978),\n and Weekly Reports (1979-1982) are arranged\n chronologically and their indices provide brief\n summaries of the topics discussed.","The \n Members Personal Voting\n Record covers the period 1973-1982 (93rd Congress\n First Session to the 97th Congress Second Session). Each\n Congress' voting record is divided into two sessions. A\n cumulative record for each Congress is also present.\n Included here are: roll numbers, dates, daily record\n page number, description, and members response. Each\n record contains a roll call subject guide and an index\n to the voting record. Although Butler began his\n congressional term with the 92nd Congress, there is no\n personal voting record for this time.","The \n Constituency Correspondence is\n almost exclusively from the period of the impeachment of\n Richard M. Nixon. The letters are divided into those\n favoring impeachment and those opposed to this action.\n There is also correspondence in reaction to the pardon\n of Nixon by President Gerald R. Ford.","Materials concerning the \n Confirmation of Gerald R. Ford as\n Vice President include: correspondence, memoranda,\n a briefing book, and transcriptions of testimony and\n proceedings during the hearings.","Ford medical and financial records are closed.","Congressman Butler sat on the House Judiciary\n committee that investigated and voted on the \n impeachment of President Richard M.\n Nixon . The impeachment materials are 15 cu. ft.\n in extent and include: narratives about the Watergate\n break-in and related events, and about the bombing of\n Cambodia; interview transcripts and recorded testimony\n of persons involved in Watergate activities; general\n impeachment inquiry materials(committee notebooks,\n personal notes, etc.); reports on White House\n Surveillance activities; Department of Justice/ITT\n Litigation; Milk Producers Cooperatives investigations;\n papers re the Judiciary Committee's \"Fragile Coalition\";\n general correspondence and memoranda; and printed\n materials. (See also, the series of constituent\n correspondence that precedes the impeachment materials.\n Butler kept an audio diary during the impeachment\n process, and these cassette recordings are included\n here, as are his written notes from this time. Also\n present are partial transcripts of an oral history\n project on the \"Fragile Coalition\" conducted in\n 1974.","Unrevised and unedited","The \n Printed Materials are primarily government documents\n from the period of the impeachment of\n Richard M. Nixon. Below is an enumeration of the titles present from donor gifts 1980-1983. Titles from additions, 1985-2015 are present in these boxes, but not yet listed below.","Book I: December 2, 1971 - June 17,\n 1972","Book I: June 19, 1972 - March 1, 1974 \n Book II: June 17, 1972 - February 9,\n 1973","Book III: June 20, 1972 - March 22,\n 1973","Book IV: March 22, 1973 - April 30,\n 1973","Appendix: Political Matters Memoranda \n I: Presidential Statements \n II: Papers in Criminal Cases \n III: Supplementary Documents \n IV: Political Matters memoranda","Executive Session Hearings Before the Select\n Committee on Presidential Campaign Activities\n of the United States Senate, November\n 13,14,15,16, December 4, 11, 1973.","There are three distinct audio recording projects documenting the days of the House\n Judiciary Committee Nixon Impeachment proceedings in July 1974. The first was part audio\n diary and part interviews involving Rep. Butler and reporter Wayne Woodlief. This project \n ran from May to early August 1974, with most of the recordings being from July. The recordings\n of most of these sessions -- some are missing; it is thought to be few, but there is no definitive \n way of knowing -- are in audio cassettes housed in box 55. There is a user set of CDs of these \n recordings in that box, and there are digital audio files of these tapes housed in Box on the Washington and Lee University \n network. There is also an incomplete set of transcripts for this project in box 54. Woodlief \n spoke of trying to produce a book at least partially based on these tapes. He sent such a proposal\n to Butler on July 10, 1975. The only printed product to emerge from these recordings, however, was \n an extensive article in the July 27, 1975 edition of The Roanoke Times , \n also published in the Virginian-Pilot of the same date.","The second recordings were much more limited in scope. On July 31, 1974, Butler sat down with\n Thomas Mooney, a Judiciary Committee attorney, to record on audiotape, their recollection of \n events as they unfolded on July 22-24. Their primary aim seems to have been capturing the \n drafting of the articles of impeachment. There are transcripts -- again just how complete cannot\n be determined, but not any recordings themselves.","The third project was the most ambitious. It was an attempt to record the Nixon Impeachment memories\n of all of the members of the so-called Fragile Coalition, those Democratic and Republican members of \n the House Judiciary Committee who held the swing votes on impeachment. They came together to draft \n articles of impeachment on which they could all vote \"yes\".","The organizers of this project were Thomas Mooney Sr., Stephen Lynch, and Father Donald Shea, longtime chair\n of the history department at St. Joseph College (Indiana). Mooney was a St. Joseph College alumnus and friend\n of Father Shea. The project was funded by St. Joseph College, and other private funds were solicited, as well.","The project had two parts. In the first part, the organizers interviewed members of the coalition \n individually in their Washington Congressional offices in June 1975. This was followed by a retreat on Hilton Head \n Island, SC in July 1975. Extensive aide memoire printed materials were gathered and given to each member of the coalition \n in advance. The recordings made there were in panel format only, with all of the Fragile Coalition members present.","There are no recordings from this project in the Butler papers. There are transcripts -- once again, there is no\n telling how complete -- from both the individual interviews and the Hilton Head panels. There is a third category of\n transcripts, those with interviewees' corrections handwritten on transcriptions. These corrected copies are from both the \n individual and group sessions. Some of these transcripts were sent to Butler and the Powell Archives by the University\n of Maine's Fogler Library which houses the papers of Fragile Coalition member William Cohen.","Unlike the printed materials that are found throughout the Impeachment series, these books and magazines\n are not government documents. There are copies of Time, Newsweek, and\n Life magazines from the time of the impeachment. There are also books and \n a college thesis giving retropective views on that period.","The \n Bankruptcy Materials are 18\n cu. ft. of papers documenting Butler's work in the\n drafting and passage of the legislation popularly known\n as the Bankruptcy Reform Act of 1978. Forms of materials\n present include: minutes of the Bankruptcy Commission,\n markup books on various versions of bankruptcy bills,\n memoranda, briefing materials, meetings transcripts,\n hearing transcripts, conference materials, Congressional\n Record Notebooks, audio tapes of markup sessions, and\n supplemental information on bankruptcy legislation with\n relevant testimony.","This material was arranged by Butler's office into\n three major components: 1)general materials in\n ring-binder notebooks to which Roman Numerals were\n assigned; 2)\"Supplemental Materials: ... \" filed in\n \"books\" numbered 1-45; and, 3) Ken Klee's research\n materials. The arrangement of these materials is not\n easily grasped, but the donor has provided a \"road map.\"\n A Butler document from around 1980 entitled \"The\n Narrative History of the Bankruptcy Act Revision\"\n provides a concise, informal legislative history of the\n Bankruptcy Reform Act of 1978 from Mr. Butler's\n perspective. It also discusses the creation and\n arrangement of these records and includes references to\n the Roman numeral numbering scheme employed by Butler's\n staff. This narrative is found in the first folder of\n the first box of bankruptcy materials(box 57). A second\n helpful narrative entitled \"The Establishment of the\n Commission\" states the reasons that impelled Congress to\n establish the Commission on Bankruptcy in June of 1970.\n This can be found in box 71 in the folder titled \"Mun.\n 5.\" Ken Klee's article on bankruptcy legislative (box\n 72) may also be of use in understanding events leading\n up to the 1978 act. The article is entitled, \"Congress\n and the Bankruptcy Act of 1976,\" and appeared in volume\n 61 of the \n American Bar Association\n Journal (October, 1975).","The \n general materials have been\n removed from the ring-binders, but the folders that now\n hold them are labeled with the Roman numeral\n corresponding to the binder in which they were formerly\n housed. Everything from 1971 research materials to the\n printed public law version of the 1978 Bankruptcy Reform\n Act can be found here. Books and pamphlets printed by\n the Government Office of Printing are found in Roman\n numeral sections I and III-IX. Included here are the\n Commission on Bankruptcy Laws Report, H.R. 10792, H.R.\n 16643, Hearings on H.R. 31 and H.R. 32, Hearings on S.\n 235, S. 236, H.R. 6, and oversized side-by-side\n comparisons of VI (H) and XIII of H.R. 31 and 32 and S.\n 2266 and H.R. 8200 (stored in box 75).","All of the \"Supplemental Legislation and Testimony\"\n is contained in 45 \"books\" and includes correspondence,\n notes and paste-ups of various sections of proposed\n versions of the bankruptcy bill. Section \"F,\" of XLIII\n \"Conference Materials\" (Box 61, Folder 9 from the\n general materials described above) contains the index to\n the 45 books. Much of the contents are reiterations of\n information from the \"Roman numeral\" notebooks arranged\n for quick reference. Testimony is arranged by bill\n section.","The Ken Klee's bankruptcy files were created while\n Klee served as associate counsel for the Subcommittee on\n Civil and Constitutional Rights of the House Committee\n on the Judiciary. They are 4 cu. ft. in extent and are\n divided into three sections: uniform bankruptcy file,\n municipal bankruptcy file (MUN), and bankruptcy act\n subject files. An index to Klee's files is contained in\n Section \"E\" of XLIII \"Conference Materials\" (Box 61,\n Folder 9). The Uniform Bankruptcy Files are arranged\n numerically beginning with the number 102 and contain\n statements, testimonies, correspondence, memoranda,\n drafts and other relevant materials regarding the\n proposed bankruptcy rules. The Municipal Bankruptcy File\n is arranged numerically. The files are designated MUN\n with a corresponding number. These files also contain\n drafts, testimonies, statements, memorandums and\n reports. Klee's Bankruptcy Subject Files are arranged\n alphabetically. Included here (under 'g') is general\n correspondence from 1973-1978.","#I - LII","(A) \n March 19-June 14, 1971 \n September 15,16-November 15, 1971 \n December 13-January 30,31, 1972 \n April 10-May 1, 1972 \n June 12-September 11-12, 1972 \n October 9-10, 1972 \n November 13-14, 1972 \n December 4-5, 1972","(B) \n December 4-5, 1972 \n January 15-16, 1973 \n February 22-24, 1973 \n March 15-17, 1973 \n April 12-14, 1973 \n June 7-12, 1973","(A) \n (B) \n (C)","(A) \n (B) \n (C)","(E) \n (F) \n (G) \n (H) -- Side-by-Side of H.R. 31 and H.R.\n 32 (2 copies) September 2, 1975. In oversize\n carton 49.","(A) \n (B) \n (C)","(A) \n (B)","(A)","(B) \n (C)","(A) \n (B)","Source 13 260;263 \n Source 14 322-323 \n Source 15 336 \n Source 20 412-415 \n Source 23A 502 \n Source 50 549;554-555 \n Source 30 587-588 \n Source 31 595-596 \n Source 33 612-613","Books for S. 2266 and H.R. 8200; H.R. 31 and H.R. 32\n ","Published by San Diego Urban League,\n Inc.","Enclosed copy of RRRA and RRRRA","Legal Services Corporation\n Act papers consist of one cu. ft. of materials\n concerning the authorization of funding for this entity\n for the fiscal years 1982-1984. Included here are: the\n authorization bill, itself; correspondence; \"discussion\n papers\"; press clippings; transcripts of testimony and\n hearing proceedings. (The one file of material about the\n re-authorization of the Department of Justice follows\n the Legal Services papers.)","The \n Voting Rights Act Extension series comprises Butler's legislative papers as a member of the House Judiciary Committee during the consideration of the extension of this Act.","The \n National Bankruptcy Review\n Commission papers are from Butler's service as a\n member of that body from 1995-1997. These 16 cu. ft. of\n materials include: correspondence; meeting minutes;\n memoranda and documents distributed to commission\n members; and the report of the commission and drafts of\n that report.","Box 91 includes audio cassette of\n \"discharge/reaffirmation hearing,\" 1997.","Bicentennial of American Revolution Flag; Bicentennial Medal, 1976; American College of Bankruptcy Commendation plaque, March 14, 1998.","Navy hat, brass buttons, insignia, pins and dog tags.","Contents: 24\"x36 inch photo of Butler, c. 1961; House Concurrent Resolution 672, July 1, 1976; Washington and Lee University Honorary Doctor of Laws Diploma, June 1, 1978; Birthday card from staff, June 2, 1973; National Small Business Association Certificate of Recognition, October 1978; certificate, Governor George Allen (Virgini) naming Butler to Governor's Advisory Council on Self-Determination and Federalism, November 14, 1994."],"userestrict_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThere are no restrictions.\u003c/p\u003e"],"userestrict_heading_ssm":["Use Restrictions"],"userestrict_tesim":["There are no restrictions."],"language_ssim":["English"],"total_component_count_is":567,"online_item_count_is":0,"component_level_isim":[0],"sort_isi":0,"timestamp":"2026-05-20T15:09:15.002Z"}]}},"label":"Breadcrumbs"}}},"links":{"self":"https://arvasarchive.org/catalog/vilxwl_vilxwl00003_c16_c02_c01_c05"}},{"id":"vilxwl_vilxwl00003_c16_c02_c01_c04","type":"Item","attributes":{"title":"104: The American Bankruptcy\n Law Journal \n Spring 1975","breadcrumbs":{"id":"https://arvasarchive.org/catalog/vilxwl_vilxwl00003_c16_c02_c01_c04#breadcrumbs","type":"document_value","attributes":{"value":{"ref_ssi":"vilxwl_vilxwl00003_c16_c02_c01_c04","ref_ssm":["vilxwl_vilxwl00003_c16_c02_c01_c04"],"id":"vilxwl_vilxwl00003_c16_c02_c01_c04","ead_ssi":"vilxwl_vilxwl00003","_root_":"vilxwl_vilxwl00003","_nest_parent_":"vilxwl_vilxwl00003_c16_c02_c01","parent_ssi":"vilxwl_vilxwl00003_c16_c02_c01","parent_ssim":["vilxwl_vilxwl00003","vilxwl_vilxwl00003_c16","vilxwl_vilxwl00003_c16_c02","vilxwl_vilxwl00003_c16_c02_c01"],"parent_ids_ssim":["vilxwl_vilxwl00003","vilxwl_vilxwl00003_c16","vilxwl_vilxwl00003_c16_c02","vilxwl_vilxwl00003_c16_c02_c01"],"parent_unittitles_ssm":["M. 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Caldwell Butler Papers \n 1945-2006","This collection\n consists of ca. 93 cubic feet of materials.","The Ford medical and financial records are closed.","Manley Caldwell Butler was born June 2, 1925 in Roanoke,\n Virginia, where he lived most of his life until his death on \n July 28, 2014. Following service in the Navy in World War II,\n he received his A.B. from the University of Richmond\n in 1948 and his J.D. from the University of Virginia Law\n School in 1950. Butler married June Nolde in 1950. This union\n produced four sons: Manley, Henry, James and Marshall.","Butler served as the City of Roanoke Representative in\n 1960-1961. In 1962 he was elected to the Virginia House of\n Delegates. He was elected Minority Leader in 1966, a position\n he held until 1972 when he was elected to the 92nd U.S.\n Congress from the 6th District of Virginia. Butler served the\n 6th District for a decade. While serving on the Judiciary\n Committee, Butler participated in the impeachment action\n against President Richard M. Nixon during the summer of 1974.\n In the aftermath of Nixon's resignation, Butler was involved\n in the confirmation hearings of Gerald R. Ford and Nelson\n Rockefeller to serve as President and Vice President\n respectively. Butler was a principal architect of the\n Bankruptcy Reform Act of 1978. He was also a member of the\n Committee on Government Operations. In retirement, Butler\n served on the National Bankruptcy Review Commission in the\n years 1995-1997. ","A partner in the firm of Woods, Rogers \u0026 Hazelgrove of\n Roanoke, Virginia from 1983-1998, Mr. Butler held memberships\n in the American Bar Association, the Virginia State Bar, the\n Roanoke Bar Association, the American College of Bankruptcy,\n the Raven Society, the Order of the Coif, and the Board of\n Directors of Dominion Bank Shares Corp of Roanoke. He was also\n a Fellow of the American Bar Foundation and a Director of the\n American Bankruptcy Institute. His fraternal organization\n affiliations include Phi Beta Kappa, Tau Kappa Alpha, Omicron\n Delta Kappa and Phi Gamma Delta.","The \n M(anley)Caldwell Butler\n Papers consist of approximately 96 cu. ft. of materials from 1925-2006. Most of the papers cover the periods 1972-1982 and 1995-1997. The papers are divided\n into seventeen series: June Nolde Butler papers; correspondence and subject files; military service; appointment calendars; campaigns; scrapbooks, clippings and photos; speeches; newsletters, press\n releases, radio reports and weekly reports; voting record;\n constituency correspondence; confirmation of Gerald R. Ford as\n Vice President; impeachment of President\n Richard M. Nixon; Bankruptcy Reform Act of 1978;\n Legal Services Corporation; re-authorization of the Department of Justice\n for the Fiscal Year 1982; Voting Rights Act extension; the National Bankruptcy Review\n Commission, 1995-1997; and Artifacts, 1944-1998. With the exceptions of the first six series and National\n Bankruptcy Review Commission materials, these papers were\n generated during Butler's terms as U. S. Representative for\n the 6th Congressional District of Virginia, 1972 -1982 (93rd\n Congress - 97th Congress).","The refinement levels of processing are mixed. The gradual donation of materials over a period \n of 40 years is chiefly the cause. The Nixon Impeachment and Bankruptcy Reform Act of 1978 materials \n are mostly described down to the folder level. The National Bankruptcy Review Commission materials arrived largely self-arranged. \n Most other areas of the colleciton, however, are largely unprocessed beyond being sorted into tentative series.","This is particularly true of additions made in 2018 through the estate of Butler's son, James. This has resulted in a temporary \n box renumbering in boxes 1-7. There is also a box of artifacts added at the end of all of the papers.","Biographical materials,general correspondence, correspondence with parents and siblings,Letters, \n invitations, menus, calendars, subject files, photos, clippings, artifacts, photos scrapbook (1933-1950)\n and correspondence (1947-1950) with her future husband, M Caldwell Butler","Nixon Impeachment historical studies; Correspondence re publication of book, Stonewall Jim;\n GOP Gala, 2001; certificates of award and merit; records of naval service; education records \n and related materials.","Subjects include: United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit; \n National Bankruptcy Review Commission; Sarah Butler Memorial; Sam Garrison Bar Discipline; \n Bankruptcy Law; Watergate/Impeachment; Susan Aheron; Butler for Governor; Newspaper Items; \n Legal Services Corporation; The Miller Center; and Virginia Cares.","Correspondence, subject files, surveys, election returns, and memorabilia","In addition to campaign and general coverage, these scrapbooks treat: editorials mentioning Butler; economic conferences; farm conferences; HUD and FMHA conferences; Lynchburg Weather Station; minority business conferences.","Most of these appear to have been kept by his Congressional Office Staff. They document his day-to-day official activities.","These also document his official activities.","The recordings range from appearances on Face the Nation to local forums.","There is a variety of publications on a variety of mainly political topics. forms of materials include trade books, government documents, brochures, and magazinies. ","Speeches (1964-2001; bulk 1973-1982) are also\n arranged chronologically. The audience, occasion, and\n location are usually noted. From January 1976 onward, a\n topical index is present in addition to the\n chronological listings that are available for all of the\n years. Some nine speeches are missing from the original\n inventory, while others not on that listing were found\n during processing and added to the finding aid.","Newsletters (1973-1981)were\n generated by Congressman Butler's staff to keep citizens\n of the Sixth District of Virginia informed on issues\n before the House, and on the activities of his office.\n The newsletters(N:) are arranged chronologically with an\n alphabetical reference index that has been updated\n through October 1, 1982. This index includes references\n to Radio Reports(RR#) and Weekly Reports(WR#). News\n (Press) Releases (1972-1982), Radio Reports (1973-1978),\n and Weekly Reports (1979-1982) are arranged\n chronologically and their indices provide brief\n summaries of the topics discussed.","The \n Members Personal Voting\n Record covers the period 1973-1982 (93rd Congress\n First Session to the 97th Congress Second Session). Each\n Congress' voting record is divided into two sessions. A\n cumulative record for each Congress is also present.\n Included here are: roll numbers, dates, daily record\n page number, description, and members response. Each\n record contains a roll call subject guide and an index\n to the voting record. Although Butler began his\n congressional term with the 92nd Congress, there is no\n personal voting record for this time.","The \n Constituency Correspondence is\n almost exclusively from the period of the impeachment of\n Richard M. Nixon. The letters are divided into those\n favoring impeachment and those opposed to this action.\n There is also correspondence in reaction to the pardon\n of Nixon by President Gerald R. Ford.","Materials concerning the \n Confirmation of Gerald R. Ford as\n Vice President include: correspondence, memoranda,\n a briefing book, and transcriptions of testimony and\n proceedings during the hearings.","Ford medical and financial records are closed.","Congressman Butler sat on the House Judiciary\n committee that investigated and voted on the \n impeachment of President Richard M.\n Nixon . The impeachment materials are 15 cu. ft.\n in extent and include: narratives about the Watergate\n break-in and related events, and about the bombing of\n Cambodia; interview transcripts and recorded testimony\n of persons involved in Watergate activities; general\n impeachment inquiry materials(committee notebooks,\n personal notes, etc.); reports on White House\n Surveillance activities; Department of Justice/ITT\n Litigation; Milk Producers Cooperatives investigations;\n papers re the Judiciary Committee's \"Fragile Coalition\";\n general correspondence and memoranda; and printed\n materials. (See also, the series of constituent\n correspondence that precedes the impeachment materials.\n Butler kept an audio diary during the impeachment\n process, and these cassette recordings are included\n here, as are his written notes from this time. Also\n present are partial transcripts of an oral history\n project on the \"Fragile Coalition\" conducted in\n 1974.","Unrevised and unedited","The \n Printed Materials are primarily government documents\n from the period of the impeachment of\n Richard M. Nixon. Below is an enumeration of the titles present from donor gifts 1980-1983. Titles from additions, 1985-2015 are present in these boxes, but not yet listed below.","Book I: December 2, 1971 - June 17,\n 1972","Book I: June 19, 1972 - March 1, 1974 \n Book II: June 17, 1972 - February 9,\n 1973","Book III: June 20, 1972 - March 22,\n 1973","Book IV: March 22, 1973 - April 30,\n 1973","Appendix: Political Matters Memoranda \n I: Presidential Statements \n II: Papers in Criminal Cases \n III: Supplementary Documents \n IV: Political Matters memoranda","Executive Session Hearings Before the Select\n Committee on Presidential Campaign Activities\n of the United States Senate, November\n 13,14,15,16, December 4, 11, 1973.","There are three distinct audio recording projects documenting the days of the House\n Judiciary Committee Nixon Impeachment proceedings in July 1974. The first was part audio\n diary and part interviews involving Rep. Butler and reporter Wayne Woodlief. This project \n ran from May to early August 1974, with most of the recordings being from July. The recordings\n of most of these sessions -- some are missing; it is thought to be few, but there is no definitive \n way of knowing -- are in audio cassettes housed in box 55. There is a user set of CDs of these \n recordings in that box, and there are digital audio files of these tapes housed in Box on the Washington and Lee University \n network. There is also an incomplete set of transcripts for this project in box 54. Woodlief \n spoke of trying to produce a book at least partially based on these tapes. He sent such a proposal\n to Butler on July 10, 1975. The only printed product to emerge from these recordings, however, was \n an extensive article in the July 27, 1975 edition of The Roanoke Times , \n also published in the Virginian-Pilot of the same date.","The second recordings were much more limited in scope. On July 31, 1974, Butler sat down with\n Thomas Mooney, a Judiciary Committee attorney, to record on audiotape, their recollection of \n events as they unfolded on July 22-24. Their primary aim seems to have been capturing the \n drafting of the articles of impeachment. There are transcripts -- again just how complete cannot\n be determined, but not any recordings themselves.","The third project was the most ambitious. It was an attempt to record the Nixon Impeachment memories\n of all of the members of the so-called Fragile Coalition, those Democratic and Republican members of \n the House Judiciary Committee who held the swing votes on impeachment. They came together to draft \n articles of impeachment on which they could all vote \"yes\".","The organizers of this project were Thomas Mooney Sr., Stephen Lynch, and Father Donald Shea, longtime chair\n of the history department at St. Joseph College (Indiana). Mooney was a St. Joseph College alumnus and friend\n of Father Shea. The project was funded by St. Joseph College, and other private funds were solicited, as well.","The project had two parts. In the first part, the organizers interviewed members of the coalition \n individually in their Washington Congressional offices in June 1975. This was followed by a retreat on Hilton Head \n Island, SC in July 1975. Extensive aide memoire printed materials were gathered and given to each member of the coalition \n in advance. The recordings made there were in panel format only, with all of the Fragile Coalition members present.","There are no recordings from this project in the Butler papers. There are transcripts -- once again, there is no\n telling how complete -- from both the individual interviews and the Hilton Head panels. There is a third category of\n transcripts, those with interviewees' corrections handwritten on transcriptions. These corrected copies are from both the \n individual and group sessions. Some of these transcripts were sent to Butler and the Powell Archives by the University\n of Maine's Fogler Library which houses the papers of Fragile Coalition member William Cohen.","Unlike the printed materials that are found throughout the Impeachment series, these books and magazines\n are not government documents. There are copies of Time, Newsweek, and\n Life magazines from the time of the impeachment. There are also books and \n a college thesis giving retropective views on that period.","The \n Bankruptcy Materials are 18\n cu. ft. of papers documenting Butler's work in the\n drafting and passage of the legislation popularly known\n as the Bankruptcy Reform Act of 1978. Forms of materials\n present include: minutes of the Bankruptcy Commission,\n markup books on various versions of bankruptcy bills,\n memoranda, briefing materials, meetings transcripts,\n hearing transcripts, conference materials, Congressional\n Record Notebooks, audio tapes of markup sessions, and\n supplemental information on bankruptcy legislation with\n relevant testimony.","This material was arranged by Butler's office into\n three major components: 1)general materials in\n ring-binder notebooks to which Roman Numerals were\n assigned; 2)\"Supplemental Materials: ... \" filed in\n \"books\" numbered 1-45; and, 3) Ken Klee's research\n materials. The arrangement of these materials is not\n easily grasped, but the donor has provided a \"road map.\"\n A Butler document from around 1980 entitled \"The\n Narrative History of the Bankruptcy Act Revision\"\n provides a concise, informal legislative history of the\n Bankruptcy Reform Act of 1978 from Mr. Butler's\n perspective. It also discusses the creation and\n arrangement of these records and includes references to\n the Roman numeral numbering scheme employed by Butler's\n staff. This narrative is found in the first folder of\n the first box of bankruptcy materials(box 57). A second\n helpful narrative entitled \"The Establishment of the\n Commission\" states the reasons that impelled Congress to\n establish the Commission on Bankruptcy in June of 1970.\n This can be found in box 71 in the folder titled \"Mun.\n 5.\" Ken Klee's article on bankruptcy legislative (box\n 72) may also be of use in understanding events leading\n up to the 1978 act. The article is entitled, \"Congress\n and the Bankruptcy Act of 1976,\" and appeared in volume\n 61 of the \n American Bar Association\n Journal (October, 1975).","The \n general materials have been\n removed from the ring-binders, but the folders that now\n hold them are labeled with the Roman numeral\n corresponding to the binder in which they were formerly\n housed. Everything from 1971 research materials to the\n printed public law version of the 1978 Bankruptcy Reform\n Act can be found here. Books and pamphlets printed by\n the Government Office of Printing are found in Roman\n numeral sections I and III-IX. Included here are the\n Commission on Bankruptcy Laws Report, H.R. 10792, H.R.\n 16643, Hearings on H.R. 31 and H.R. 32, Hearings on S.\n 235, S. 236, H.R. 6, and oversized side-by-side\n comparisons of VI (H) and XIII of H.R. 31 and 32 and S.\n 2266 and H.R. 8200 (stored in box 75).","All of the \"Supplemental Legislation and Testimony\"\n is contained in 45 \"books\" and includes correspondence,\n notes and paste-ups of various sections of proposed\n versions of the bankruptcy bill. Section \"F,\" of XLIII\n \"Conference Materials\" (Box 61, Folder 9 from the\n general materials described above) contains the index to\n the 45 books. Much of the contents are reiterations of\n information from the \"Roman numeral\" notebooks arranged\n for quick reference. Testimony is arranged by bill\n section.","The Ken Klee's bankruptcy files were created while\n Klee served as associate counsel for the Subcommittee on\n Civil and Constitutional Rights of the House Committee\n on the Judiciary. They are 4 cu. ft. in extent and are\n divided into three sections: uniform bankruptcy file,\n municipal bankruptcy file (MUN), and bankruptcy act\n subject files. An index to Klee's files is contained in\n Section \"E\" of XLIII \"Conference Materials\" (Box 61,\n Folder 9). The Uniform Bankruptcy Files are arranged\n numerically beginning with the number 102 and contain\n statements, testimonies, correspondence, memoranda,\n drafts and other relevant materials regarding the\n proposed bankruptcy rules. The Municipal Bankruptcy File\n is arranged numerically. The files are designated MUN\n with a corresponding number. These files also contain\n drafts, testimonies, statements, memorandums and\n reports. Klee's Bankruptcy Subject Files are arranged\n alphabetically. Included here (under 'g') is general\n correspondence from 1973-1978.","#I - LII","(A) \n March 19-June 14, 1971 \n September 15,16-November 15, 1971 \n December 13-January 30,31, 1972 \n April 10-May 1, 1972 \n June 12-September 11-12, 1972 \n October 9-10, 1972 \n November 13-14, 1972 \n December 4-5, 1972","(B) \n December 4-5, 1972 \n January 15-16, 1973 \n February 22-24, 1973 \n March 15-17, 1973 \n April 12-14, 1973 \n June 7-12, 1973","(A) \n (B) \n (C)","(A) \n (B) \n (C)","(E) \n (F) \n (G) \n (H) -- Side-by-Side of H.R. 31 and H.R.\n 32 (2 copies) September 2, 1975. In oversize\n carton 49.","(A) \n (B) \n (C)","(A) \n (B)","(A)","(B) \n (C)","(A) \n (B)","Source 13 260;263 \n Source 14 322-323 \n Source 15 336 \n Source 20 412-415 \n Source 23A 502 \n Source 50 549;554-555 \n Source 30 587-588 \n Source 31 595-596 \n Source 33 612-613","Books for S. 2266 and H.R. 8200; H.R. 31 and H.R. 32\n ","Published by San Diego Urban League,\n Inc.","Enclosed copy of RRRA and RRRRA","Legal Services Corporation\n Act papers consist of one cu. ft. of materials\n concerning the authorization of funding for this entity\n for the fiscal years 1982-1984. Included here are: the\n authorization bill, itself; correspondence; \"discussion\n papers\"; press clippings; transcripts of testimony and\n hearing proceedings. (The one file of material about the\n re-authorization of the Department of Justice follows\n the Legal Services papers.)","The \n Voting Rights Act Extension series comprises Butler's legislative papers as a member of the House Judiciary Committee during the consideration of the extension of this Act.","The \n National Bankruptcy Review\n Commission papers are from Butler's service as a\n member of that body from 1995-1997. These 16 cu. ft. of\n materials include: correspondence; meeting minutes;\n memoranda and documents distributed to commission\n members; and the report of the commission and drafts of\n that report.","Box 91 includes audio cassette of\n \"discharge/reaffirmation hearing,\" 1997.","Bicentennial of American Revolution Flag; Bicentennial Medal, 1976; American College of Bankruptcy Commendation plaque, March 14, 1998.","Navy hat, brass buttons, insignia, pins and dog tags.","Contents: 24\"x36 inch photo of Butler, c. 1961; House Concurrent Resolution 672, July 1, 1976; Washington and Lee University Honorary Doctor of Laws Diploma, June 1, 1978; Birthday card from staff, June 2, 1973; National Small Business Association Certificate of Recognition, October 1978; certificate, Governor George Allen (Virgini) naming Butler to Governor's Advisory Council on Self-Determination and Federalism, November 14, 1994.","There are no restrictions.","English"],"unitid_tesim":["004"],"normalized_title_ssm":["M. Caldwell Butler Papers \n 1945-2006"],"collection_title_tesim":["M. Caldwell Butler Papers \n 1945-2006"],"collection_ssim":["M. Caldwell Butler Papers \n 1945-2006"],"repository_ssm":["Washington and Lee University, Law School"],"repository_ssim":["Washington and Lee University, Law School"],"acqinfo_ssim":["This collection was given to the library by M. Caldwell\n Butler in 1980-1983,1997,1999, 2004 and by his estate in 2015."],"has_online_content_ssim":["false"],"physdesc_tesim":["This collection\n consists of ca. 93 cubic feet of materials."],"accessrestrict_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThe Ford medical and financial records are closed.\u003c/p\u003e"],"accessrestrict_heading_ssm":["Access"],"accessrestrict_tesim":["The Ford medical and financial records are closed."],"bioghist_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eManley Caldwell Butler was born June 2, 1925 in Roanoke,\n Virginia, where he lived most of his life until his death on \n July 28, 2014. Following service in the Navy in World War II,\n he received his A.B. from the University of Richmond\n in 1948 and his J.D. from the University of Virginia Law\n School in 1950. Butler married June Nolde in 1950. This union\n produced four sons: Manley, Henry, James and Marshall.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eButler served as the City of Roanoke Representative in\n 1960-1961. In 1962 he was elected to the Virginia House of\n Delegates. He was elected Minority Leader in 1966, a position\n he held until 1972 when he was elected to the 92nd U.S.\n Congress from the 6th District of Virginia. Butler served the\n 6th District for a decade. While serving on the Judiciary\n Committee, Butler participated in the impeachment action\n against President Richard M. Nixon during the summer of 1974.\n In the aftermath of Nixon's resignation, Butler was involved\n in the confirmation hearings of Gerald R. Ford and Nelson\n Rockefeller to serve as President and Vice President\n respectively. Butler was a principal architect of the\n Bankruptcy Reform Act of 1978. He was also a member of the\n Committee on Government Operations. In retirement, Butler\n served on the National Bankruptcy Review Commission in the\n years 1995-1997. \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA partner in the firm of Woods, Rogers \u0026amp; Hazelgrove of\n Roanoke, Virginia from 1983-1998, Mr. Butler held memberships\n in the American Bar Association, the Virginia State Bar, the\n Roanoke Bar Association, the American College of Bankruptcy,\n the Raven Society, the Order of the Coif, and the Board of\n Directors of Dominion Bank Shares Corp of Roanoke. He was also\n a Fellow of the American Bar Foundation and a Director of the\n American Bankruptcy Institute. His fraternal organization\n affiliations include Phi Beta Kappa, Tau Kappa Alpha, Omicron\n Delta Kappa and Phi Gamma Delta.\u003c/p\u003e"],"bioghist_heading_ssm":["Biographical/Historical Information"],"bioghist_tesim":["Manley Caldwell Butler was born June 2, 1925 in Roanoke,\n Virginia, where he lived most of his life until his death on \n July 28, 2014. Following service in the Navy in World War II,\n he received his A.B. from the University of Richmond\n in 1948 and his J.D. from the University of Virginia Law\n School in 1950. Butler married June Nolde in 1950. This union\n produced four sons: Manley, Henry, James and Marshall.","Butler served as the City of Roanoke Representative in\n 1960-1961. In 1962 he was elected to the Virginia House of\n Delegates. He was elected Minority Leader in 1966, a position\n he held until 1972 when he was elected to the 92nd U.S.\n Congress from the 6th District of Virginia. Butler served the\n 6th District for a decade. While serving on the Judiciary\n Committee, Butler participated in the impeachment action\n against President Richard M. Nixon during the summer of 1974.\n In the aftermath of Nixon's resignation, Butler was involved\n in the confirmation hearings of Gerald R. Ford and Nelson\n Rockefeller to serve as President and Vice President\n respectively. Butler was a principal architect of the\n Bankruptcy Reform Act of 1978. He was also a member of the\n Committee on Government Operations. In retirement, Butler\n served on the National Bankruptcy Review Commission in the\n years 1995-1997. ","A partner in the firm of Woods, Rogers \u0026 Hazelgrove of\n Roanoke, Virginia from 1983-1998, Mr. Butler held memberships\n in the American Bar Association, the Virginia State Bar, the\n Roanoke Bar Association, the American College of Bankruptcy,\n the Raven Society, the Order of the Coif, and the Board of\n Directors of Dominion Bank Shares Corp of Roanoke. He was also\n a Fellow of the American Bar Foundation and a Director of the\n American Bankruptcy Institute. His fraternal organization\n affiliations include Phi Beta Kappa, Tau Kappa Alpha, Omicron\n Delta Kappa and Phi Gamma Delta."],"prefercite_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eM. Caldwell Butler Papers, 1945-2006, Ms 004,\n Lewis F. Powell, Jr. Archives, Washington and Lee\n University School of Law, Lexington, VA\u003c/p\u003e"],"prefercite_tesim":["M. Caldwell Butler Papers, 1945-2006, Ms 004,\n Lewis F. Powell, Jr. Archives, Washington and Lee\n University School of Law, Lexington, VA"],"scopecontent_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThe \n M(anley)Caldwell Butler\n Papers consist of approximately 96 cu. ft. of materials from 1925-2006. Most of the papers cover the periods 1972-1982 and 1995-1997. The papers are divided\n into seventeen series: June Nolde Butler papers; correspondence and subject files; military service; appointment calendars; campaigns; scrapbooks, clippings and photos; speeches; newsletters, press\n releases, radio reports and weekly reports; voting record;\n constituency correspondence; confirmation of Gerald R. Ford as\n Vice President; impeachment of President\n Richard M. Nixon; Bankruptcy Reform Act of 1978;\n Legal Services Corporation; re-authorization of the Department of Justice\n for the Fiscal Year 1982; Voting Rights Act extension; the National Bankruptcy Review\n Commission, 1995-1997; and Artifacts, 1944-1998. With the exceptions of the first six series and National\n Bankruptcy Review Commission materials, these papers were\n generated during Butler's terms as U. S. Representative for\n the 6th Congressional District of Virginia, 1972 -1982 (93rd\n Congress - 97th Congress).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe refinement levels of processing are mixed. The gradual donation of materials over a period \n of 40 years is chiefly the cause. The Nixon Impeachment and Bankruptcy Reform Act of 1978 materials \n are mostly described down to the folder level. The National Bankruptcy Review Commission materials arrived largely self-arranged. \n Most other areas of the colleciton, however, are largely unprocessed beyond being sorted into tentative series.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis is particularly true of additions made in 2018 through the estate of Butler's son, James. This has resulted in a temporary \n box renumbering in boxes 1-7. There is also a box of artifacts added at the end of all of the papers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBiographical materials,general correspondence, correspondence with parents and siblings,Letters, \n invitations, menus, calendars, subject files, photos, clippings, artifacts, photos scrapbook (1933-1950)\n and correspondence (1947-1950) with her future husband, M Caldwell Butler\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNixon Impeachment historical studies; Correspondence re publication of book, Stonewall Jim;\n GOP Gala, 2001; certificates of award and merit; records of naval service; education records \n and related materials.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSubjects include: United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit; \n National Bankruptcy Review Commission; Sarah Butler Memorial; Sam Garrison Bar Discipline; \n Bankruptcy Law; Watergate/Impeachment; Susan Aheron; Butler for Governor; Newspaper Items; \n Legal Services Corporation; The Miller Center; and Virginia Cares.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence, subject files, surveys, election returns, and memorabilia\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIn addition to campaign and general coverage, these scrapbooks treat: editorials mentioning Butler; economic conferences; farm conferences; HUD and FMHA conferences; Lynchburg Weather Station; minority business conferences.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMost of these appear to have been kept by his Congressional Office Staff. They document his day-to-day official activities.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThese also document his official activities.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe recordings range from appearances on \u003ctitle render=\"italic\"\u003eFace the Nation \u003c/title\u003e to local forums.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere is a variety of publications on a variety of mainly political topics. forms of materials include trade books, government documents, brochures, and magazinies. \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eSpeeches\u003c/emph\u003e(1964-2001; bulk 1973-1982) are also\n arranged chronologically. The audience, occasion, and\n location are usually noted. From January 1976 onward, a\n topical index is present in addition to the\n chronological listings that are available for all of the\n years. Some nine speeches are missing from the original\n inventory, while others not on that listing were found\n during processing and added to the finding aid.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eNewsletters\u003c/emph\u003e(1973-1981)were\n generated by Congressman Butler's staff to keep citizens\n of the Sixth District of Virginia informed on issues\n before the House, and on the activities of his office.\n The newsletters(N:) are arranged chronologically with an\n alphabetical reference index that has been updated\n through October 1, 1982. This index includes references\n to Radio Reports(RR#) and Weekly Reports(WR#). News\n (Press) Releases (1972-1982), Radio Reports (1973-1978),\n and Weekly Reports (1979-1982) are arranged\n chronologically and their indices provide brief\n summaries of the topics discussed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe \n \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eMembers Personal Voting\n Record\u003c/emph\u003ecovers the period 1973-1982 (93rd Congress\n First Session to the 97th Congress Second Session). Each\n Congress' voting record is divided into two sessions. A\n cumulative record for each Congress is also present.\n Included here are: roll numbers, dates, daily record\n page number, description, and members response. Each\n record contains a roll call subject guide and an index\n to the voting record. Although Butler began his\n congressional term with the 92nd Congress, there is no\n personal voting record for this time.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe \n \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eConstituency Correspondence\u003c/emph\u003eis\n almost exclusively from the period of the impeachment of\n Richard M. Nixon. The letters are divided into those\n favoring impeachment and those opposed to this action.\n There is also correspondence in reaction to the pardon\n of Nixon by President Gerald R. Ford.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMaterials concerning the \n \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eConfirmation of Gerald R. Ford as\n Vice President\u003c/emph\u003einclude: correspondence, memoranda,\n a briefing book, and transcriptions of testimony and\n proceedings during the hearings.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFord medical and financial records are closed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCongressman Butler sat on the House Judiciary\n committee that investigated and voted on the \n \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eimpeachment of President Richard M.\n Nixon\u003c/emph\u003e. The impeachment materials are 15 cu. ft.\n in extent and include: narratives about the Watergate\n break-in and related events, and about the bombing of\n Cambodia; interview transcripts and recorded testimony\n of persons involved in Watergate activities; general\n impeachment inquiry materials(committee notebooks,\n personal notes, etc.); reports on White House\n Surveillance activities; Department of Justice/ITT\n Litigation; Milk Producers Cooperatives investigations;\n papers re the Judiciary Committee's \"Fragile Coalition\";\n general correspondence and memoranda; and printed\n materials. (See also, the series of constituent\n correspondence that precedes the impeachment materials.\n Butler kept an audio diary during the impeachment\n process, and these cassette recordings are included\n here, as are his written notes from this time. Also\n present are partial transcripts of an oral history\n project on the \"Fragile Coalition\" conducted in\n 1974.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eUnrevised and unedited\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe \n \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003ePrinted Materials\u003c/emph\u003eare primarily government documents\n from the period of the impeachment of\n Richard M. Nixon. Below is an enumeration of the titles present from donor gifts 1980-1983. Titles from additions, 1985-2015 are present in these boxes, but not yet listed below.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBook I: December 2, 1971 - June 17,\n 1972\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBook I: June 19, 1972 - March 1, 1974 \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eBook II: June 17, 1972 - February 9,\n 1973\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBook III: June 20, 1972 - March 22,\n 1973\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBook IV: March 22, 1973 - April 30,\n 1973\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAppendix: Political Matters Memoranda \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eI: Presidential Statements \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eII: Papers in Criminal Cases \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eIII: Supplementary Documents \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eIV: Political Matters memoranda\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eExecutive Session Hearings Before the Select\n Committee on Presidential Campaign Activities\n of the United States Senate, November\n 13,14,15,16, December 4, 11, 1973.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere are three distinct audio recording projects documenting the days of the House\n Judiciary Committee Nixon Impeachment proceedings in July 1974. The first was part audio\n diary and part interviews involving Rep. Butler and reporter Wayne Woodlief. This project \n ran from May to early August 1974, with most of the recordings being from July. The recordings\n of most of these sessions -- some are missing; it is thought to be few, but there is no definitive \n way of knowing -- are in audio cassettes housed in box 55. There is a user set of CDs of these \n recordings in that box, and there are digital audio files of these tapes housed in Box on the Washington and Lee University \n network. There is also an incomplete set of transcripts for this project in box 54. Woodlief \n spoke of trying to produce a book at least partially based on these tapes. He sent such a proposal\n to Butler on July 10, 1975. The only printed product to emerge from these recordings, however, was \n an extensive article in the July 27, 1975 edition of The \u003ctitle render=\"italic\"\u003eRoanoke Times\u003c/title\u003e, \n also published in the \u003ctitle render=\"italic\"\u003eVirginian-Pilot\u003c/title\u003e of the same date.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe second recordings were much more limited in scope. On July 31, 1974, Butler sat down with\n Thomas Mooney, a Judiciary Committee attorney, to record on audiotape, their recollection of \n events as they unfolded on July 22-24. Their primary aim seems to have been capturing the \n drafting of the articles of impeachment. There are transcripts -- again just how complete cannot\n be determined, but not any recordings themselves.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe third project was the most ambitious. It was an attempt to record the Nixon Impeachment memories\n of all of the members of the so-called Fragile Coalition, those Democratic and Republican members of \n the House Judiciary Committee who held the swing votes on impeachment. They came together to draft \n articles of impeachment on which they could all vote \"yes\".\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe organizers of this project were Thomas Mooney Sr., Stephen Lynch, and Father Donald Shea, longtime chair\n of the history department at St. Joseph College (Indiana). Mooney was a St. Joseph College alumnus and friend\n of Father Shea. The project was funded by St. Joseph College, and other private funds were solicited, as well.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe project had two parts. In the first part, the organizers interviewed members of the coalition \n individually in their Washington Congressional offices in June 1975. This was followed by a retreat on Hilton Head \n Island, SC in July 1975. Extensive aide memoire printed materials were gathered and given to each member of the coalition \n in advance. The recordings made there were in panel format only, with all of the Fragile Coalition members present.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere are no recordings from this project in the Butler papers. There are transcripts -- once again, there is no\n telling how complete -- from both the individual interviews and the Hilton Head panels. There is a third category of\n transcripts, those with interviewees' corrections handwritten on transcriptions. These corrected copies are from both the \n individual and group sessions. Some of these transcripts were sent to Butler and the Powell Archives by the University\n of Maine's Fogler Library which houses the papers of Fragile Coalition member William Cohen.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eUnlike the printed materials that are found throughout the Impeachment series, these books and magazines\n are not government documents. There are copies of \u003ctitle render=\"italic\"\u003eTime, Newsweek,\u003c/title\u003e and\n \u003ctitle render=\"italic\"\u003eLife\u003c/title\u003e magazines from the time of the impeachment. There are also books and \n a college thesis giving retropective views on that period.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe \n \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eBankruptcy Materials\u003c/emph\u003eare 18\n cu. ft. of papers documenting Butler's work in the\n drafting and passage of the legislation popularly known\n as the Bankruptcy Reform Act of 1978. Forms of materials\n present include: minutes of the Bankruptcy Commission,\n markup books on various versions of bankruptcy bills,\n memoranda, briefing materials, meetings transcripts,\n hearing transcripts, conference materials, Congressional\n Record Notebooks, audio tapes of markup sessions, and\n supplemental information on bankruptcy legislation with\n relevant testimony.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis material was arranged by Butler's office into\n three major components: 1)general materials in\n ring-binder notebooks to which Roman Numerals were\n assigned; 2)\"Supplemental Materials: ... \" filed in\n \"books\" numbered 1-45; and, 3) Ken Klee's research\n materials. The arrangement of these materials is not\n easily grasped, but the donor has provided a \"road map.\"\n A Butler document from around 1980 entitled \"The\n Narrative History of the Bankruptcy Act Revision\"\n provides a concise, informal legislative history of the\n Bankruptcy Reform Act of 1978 from Mr. Butler's\n perspective. It also discusses the creation and\n arrangement of these records and includes references to\n the Roman numeral numbering scheme employed by Butler's\n staff. This narrative is found in the first folder of\n the first box of bankruptcy materials(box 57). A second\n helpful narrative entitled \"The Establishment of the\n Commission\" states the reasons that impelled Congress to\n establish the Commission on Bankruptcy in June of 1970.\n This can be found in box 71 in the folder titled \"Mun.\n 5.\" Ken Klee's article on bankruptcy legislative (box\n 72) may also be of use in understanding events leading\n up to the 1978 act. The article is entitled, \"Congress\n and the Bankruptcy Act of 1976,\" and appeared in volume\n 61 of the \n \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eAmerican Bar Association\n Journal\u003c/title\u003e(October, 1975).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe \n \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003egeneral materials\u003c/emph\u003ehave been\n removed from the ring-binders, but the folders that now\n hold them are labeled with the Roman numeral\n corresponding to the binder in which they were formerly\n housed. Everything from 1971 research materials to the\n printed public law version of the 1978 Bankruptcy Reform\n Act can be found here. Books and pamphlets printed by\n the Government Office of Printing are found in Roman\n numeral sections I and III-IX. Included here are the\n Commission on Bankruptcy Laws Report, H.R. 10792, H.R.\n 16643, Hearings on H.R. 31 and H.R. 32, Hearings on S.\n 235, S. 236, H.R. 6, and oversized side-by-side\n comparisons of VI (H) and XIII of H.R. 31 and 32 and S.\n 2266 and H.R. 8200 (stored in box 75).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAll of the \"Supplemental Legislation and Testimony\"\n is contained in 45 \"books\" and includes correspondence,\n notes and paste-ups of various sections of proposed\n versions of the bankruptcy bill. Section \"F,\" of XLIII\n \"Conference Materials\" (Box 61, Folder 9 from the\n general materials described above) contains the index to\n the 45 books. Much of the contents are reiterations of\n information from the \"Roman numeral\" notebooks arranged\n for quick reference. Testimony is arranged by bill\n section.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe Ken Klee's bankruptcy files were created while\n Klee served as associate counsel for the Subcommittee on\n Civil and Constitutional Rights of the House Committee\n on the Judiciary. They are 4 cu. ft. in extent and are\n divided into three sections: uniform bankruptcy file,\n municipal bankruptcy file (MUN), and bankruptcy act\n subject files. An index to Klee's files is contained in\n Section \"E\" of XLIII \"Conference Materials\" (Box 61,\n Folder 9). The Uniform Bankruptcy Files are arranged\n numerically beginning with the number 102 and contain\n statements, testimonies, correspondence, memoranda,\n drafts and other relevant materials regarding the\n proposed bankruptcy rules. The Municipal Bankruptcy File\n is arranged numerically. The files are designated MUN\n with a corresponding number. These files also contain\n drafts, testimonies, statements, memorandums and\n reports. Klee's Bankruptcy Subject Files are arranged\n alphabetically. Included here (under 'g') is general\n correspondence from 1973-1978.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e#I - LII\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e(A) \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eMarch 19-June 14, 1971 \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eSeptember 15,16-November 15, 1971 \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eDecember 13-January 30,31, 1972 \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eApril 10-May 1, 1972 \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eJune 12-September 11-12, 1972 \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eOctober 9-10, 1972 \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eNovember 13-14, 1972 \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eDecember 4-5, 1972\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e(B) \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eDecember 4-5, 1972 \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eJanuary 15-16, 1973 \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eFebruary 22-24, 1973 \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eMarch 15-17, 1973 \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eApril 12-14, 1973 \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eJune 7-12, 1973\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e(A) \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e(B) \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e(C)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e(A) \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e(B) \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e(C)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e(E) \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e(F) \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e(G) \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e(H) -- Side-by-Side of H.R. 31 and H.R.\n 32 (2 copies) September 2, 1975. In oversize\n carton 49.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e(A) \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e(B) \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e(C)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e(A) \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e(B)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e(A)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e(B) \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e(C)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e(A) \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e(B)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSource 13 260;263 \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eSource 14 322-323 \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eSource 15 336 \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eSource 20 412-415 \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eSource 23A 502 \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eSource 50 549;554-555 \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eSource 30 587-588 \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eSource 31 595-596 \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eSource 33 612-613\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBooks for S. 2266 and H.R. 8200; H.R. 31 and H.R. 32\n \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePublished by San Diego Urban League,\n Inc.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEnclosed copy of RRRA and RRRRA\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eLegal Services Corporation\n Act\u003c/emph\u003epapers consist of one cu. ft. of materials\n concerning the authorization of funding for this entity\n for the fiscal years 1982-1984. Included here are: the\n authorization bill, itself; correspondence; \"discussion\n papers\"; press clippings; transcripts of testimony and\n hearing proceedings. (The one file of material about the\n re-authorization of the Department of Justice follows\n the Legal Services papers.)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe \n \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eVoting Rights Act Extension\u003c/emph\u003eseries comprises Butler's legislative papers as a member of the House Judiciary Committee during the consideration of the extension of this Act.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe \n \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eNational Bankruptcy Review\n Commission\u003c/emph\u003epapers are from Butler's service as a\n member of that body from 1995-1997. These 16 cu. ft. of\n materials include: correspondence; meeting minutes;\n memoranda and documents distributed to commission\n members; and the report of the commission and drafts of\n that report.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBox 91 includes audio cassette of\n \"discharge/reaffirmation hearing,\" 1997.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBicentennial of American Revolution Flag; Bicentennial Medal, 1976; American College of Bankruptcy Commendation plaque, March 14, 1998.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNavy hat, brass buttons, insignia, pins and dog tags.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eContents: 24\"x36 inch photo of Butler, c. 1961; House Concurrent Resolution 672, July 1, 1976; Washington and Lee University Honorary Doctor of Laws Diploma, June 1, 1978; Birthday card from staff, June 2, 1973; National Small Business Association Certificate of Recognition, October 1978; certificate, Governor George Allen (Virgini) naming Butler to Governor's Advisory Council on Self-Determination and Federalism, November 14, 1994.\u003c/p\u003e"],"scopecontent_heading_ssm":["Scope and Content Information","Scope and Content\n "],"scopecontent_tesim":["The \n M(anley)Caldwell Butler\n Papers consist of approximately 96 cu. ft. of materials from 1925-2006. Most of the papers cover the periods 1972-1982 and 1995-1997. The papers are divided\n into seventeen series: June Nolde Butler papers; correspondence and subject files; military service; appointment calendars; campaigns; scrapbooks, clippings and photos; speeches; newsletters, press\n releases, radio reports and weekly reports; voting record;\n constituency correspondence; confirmation of Gerald R. Ford as\n Vice President; impeachment of President\n Richard M. Nixon; Bankruptcy Reform Act of 1978;\n Legal Services Corporation; re-authorization of the Department of Justice\n for the Fiscal Year 1982; Voting Rights Act extension; the National Bankruptcy Review\n Commission, 1995-1997; and Artifacts, 1944-1998. With the exceptions of the first six series and National\n Bankruptcy Review Commission materials, these papers were\n generated during Butler's terms as U. S. Representative for\n the 6th Congressional District of Virginia, 1972 -1982 (93rd\n Congress - 97th Congress).","The refinement levels of processing are mixed. The gradual donation of materials over a period \n of 40 years is chiefly the cause. The Nixon Impeachment and Bankruptcy Reform Act of 1978 materials \n are mostly described down to the folder level. The National Bankruptcy Review Commission materials arrived largely self-arranged. \n Most other areas of the colleciton, however, are largely unprocessed beyond being sorted into tentative series.","This is particularly true of additions made in 2018 through the estate of Butler's son, James. This has resulted in a temporary \n box renumbering in boxes 1-7. There is also a box of artifacts added at the end of all of the papers.","Biographical materials,general correspondence, correspondence with parents and siblings,Letters, \n invitations, menus, calendars, subject files, photos, clippings, artifacts, photos scrapbook (1933-1950)\n and correspondence (1947-1950) with her future husband, M Caldwell Butler","Nixon Impeachment historical studies; Correspondence re publication of book, Stonewall Jim;\n GOP Gala, 2001; certificates of award and merit; records of naval service; education records \n and related materials.","Subjects include: United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit; \n National Bankruptcy Review Commission; Sarah Butler Memorial; Sam Garrison Bar Discipline; \n Bankruptcy Law; Watergate/Impeachment; Susan Aheron; Butler for Governor; Newspaper Items; \n Legal Services Corporation; The Miller Center; and Virginia Cares.","Correspondence, subject files, surveys, election returns, and memorabilia","In addition to campaign and general coverage, these scrapbooks treat: editorials mentioning Butler; economic conferences; farm conferences; HUD and FMHA conferences; Lynchburg Weather Station; minority business conferences.","Most of these appear to have been kept by his Congressional Office Staff. They document his day-to-day official activities.","These also document his official activities.","The recordings range from appearances on Face the Nation to local forums.","There is a variety of publications on a variety of mainly political topics. forms of materials include trade books, government documents, brochures, and magazinies. ","Speeches (1964-2001; bulk 1973-1982) are also\n arranged chronologically. The audience, occasion, and\n location are usually noted. From January 1976 onward, a\n topical index is present in addition to the\n chronological listings that are available for all of the\n years. Some nine speeches are missing from the original\n inventory, while others not on that listing were found\n during processing and added to the finding aid.","Newsletters (1973-1981)were\n generated by Congressman Butler's staff to keep citizens\n of the Sixth District of Virginia informed on issues\n before the House, and on the activities of his office.\n The newsletters(N:) are arranged chronologically with an\n alphabetical reference index that has been updated\n through October 1, 1982. This index includes references\n to Radio Reports(RR#) and Weekly Reports(WR#). News\n (Press) Releases (1972-1982), Radio Reports (1973-1978),\n and Weekly Reports (1979-1982) are arranged\n chronologically and their indices provide brief\n summaries of the topics discussed.","The \n Members Personal Voting\n Record covers the period 1973-1982 (93rd Congress\n First Session to the 97th Congress Second Session). Each\n Congress' voting record is divided into two sessions. A\n cumulative record for each Congress is also present.\n Included here are: roll numbers, dates, daily record\n page number, description, and members response. Each\n record contains a roll call subject guide and an index\n to the voting record. Although Butler began his\n congressional term with the 92nd Congress, there is no\n personal voting record for this time.","The \n Constituency Correspondence is\n almost exclusively from the period of the impeachment of\n Richard M. Nixon. The letters are divided into those\n favoring impeachment and those opposed to this action.\n There is also correspondence in reaction to the pardon\n of Nixon by President Gerald R. Ford.","Materials concerning the \n Confirmation of Gerald R. Ford as\n Vice President include: correspondence, memoranda,\n a briefing book, and transcriptions of testimony and\n proceedings during the hearings.","Ford medical and financial records are closed.","Congressman Butler sat on the House Judiciary\n committee that investigated and voted on the \n impeachment of President Richard M.\n Nixon . The impeachment materials are 15 cu. ft.\n in extent and include: narratives about the Watergate\n break-in and related events, and about the bombing of\n Cambodia; interview transcripts and recorded testimony\n of persons involved in Watergate activities; general\n impeachment inquiry materials(committee notebooks,\n personal notes, etc.); reports on White House\n Surveillance activities; Department of Justice/ITT\n Litigation; Milk Producers Cooperatives investigations;\n papers re the Judiciary Committee's \"Fragile Coalition\";\n general correspondence and memoranda; and printed\n materials. (See also, the series of constituent\n correspondence that precedes the impeachment materials.\n Butler kept an audio diary during the impeachment\n process, and these cassette recordings are included\n here, as are his written notes from this time. Also\n present are partial transcripts of an oral history\n project on the \"Fragile Coalition\" conducted in\n 1974.","Unrevised and unedited","The \n Printed Materials are primarily government documents\n from the period of the impeachment of\n Richard M. Nixon. Below is an enumeration of the titles present from donor gifts 1980-1983. Titles from additions, 1985-2015 are present in these boxes, but not yet listed below.","Book I: December 2, 1971 - June 17,\n 1972","Book I: June 19, 1972 - March 1, 1974 \n Book II: June 17, 1972 - February 9,\n 1973","Book III: June 20, 1972 - March 22,\n 1973","Book IV: March 22, 1973 - April 30,\n 1973","Appendix: Political Matters Memoranda \n I: Presidential Statements \n II: Papers in Criminal Cases \n III: Supplementary Documents \n IV: Political Matters memoranda","Executive Session Hearings Before the Select\n Committee on Presidential Campaign Activities\n of the United States Senate, November\n 13,14,15,16, December 4, 11, 1973.","There are three distinct audio recording projects documenting the days of the House\n Judiciary Committee Nixon Impeachment proceedings in July 1974. The first was part audio\n diary and part interviews involving Rep. Butler and reporter Wayne Woodlief. This project \n ran from May to early August 1974, with most of the recordings being from July. The recordings\n of most of these sessions -- some are missing; it is thought to be few, but there is no definitive \n way of knowing -- are in audio cassettes housed in box 55. There is a user set of CDs of these \n recordings in that box, and there are digital audio files of these tapes housed in Box on the Washington and Lee University \n network. There is also an incomplete set of transcripts for this project in box 54. Woodlief \n spoke of trying to produce a book at least partially based on these tapes. He sent such a proposal\n to Butler on July 10, 1975. The only printed product to emerge from these recordings, however, was \n an extensive article in the July 27, 1975 edition of The Roanoke Times , \n also published in the Virginian-Pilot of the same date.","The second recordings were much more limited in scope. On July 31, 1974, Butler sat down with\n Thomas Mooney, a Judiciary Committee attorney, to record on audiotape, their recollection of \n events as they unfolded on July 22-24. Their primary aim seems to have been capturing the \n drafting of the articles of impeachment. There are transcripts -- again just how complete cannot\n be determined, but not any recordings themselves.","The third project was the most ambitious. It was an attempt to record the Nixon Impeachment memories\n of all of the members of the so-called Fragile Coalition, those Democratic and Republican members of \n the House Judiciary Committee who held the swing votes on impeachment. They came together to draft \n articles of impeachment on which they could all vote \"yes\".","The organizers of this project were Thomas Mooney Sr., Stephen Lynch, and Father Donald Shea, longtime chair\n of the history department at St. Joseph College (Indiana). Mooney was a St. Joseph College alumnus and friend\n of Father Shea. The project was funded by St. Joseph College, and other private funds were solicited, as well.","The project had two parts. In the first part, the organizers interviewed members of the coalition \n individually in their Washington Congressional offices in June 1975. This was followed by a retreat on Hilton Head \n Island, SC in July 1975. Extensive aide memoire printed materials were gathered and given to each member of the coalition \n in advance. The recordings made there were in panel format only, with all of the Fragile Coalition members present.","There are no recordings from this project in the Butler papers. There are transcripts -- once again, there is no\n telling how complete -- from both the individual interviews and the Hilton Head panels. There is a third category of\n transcripts, those with interviewees' corrections handwritten on transcriptions. These corrected copies are from both the \n individual and group sessions. Some of these transcripts were sent to Butler and the Powell Archives by the University\n of Maine's Fogler Library which houses the papers of Fragile Coalition member William Cohen.","Unlike the printed materials that are found throughout the Impeachment series, these books and magazines\n are not government documents. There are copies of Time, Newsweek, and\n Life magazines from the time of the impeachment. There are also books and \n a college thesis giving retropective views on that period.","The \n Bankruptcy Materials are 18\n cu. ft. of papers documenting Butler's work in the\n drafting and passage of the legislation popularly known\n as the Bankruptcy Reform Act of 1978. Forms of materials\n present include: minutes of the Bankruptcy Commission,\n markup books on various versions of bankruptcy bills,\n memoranda, briefing materials, meetings transcripts,\n hearing transcripts, conference materials, Congressional\n Record Notebooks, audio tapes of markup sessions, and\n supplemental information on bankruptcy legislation with\n relevant testimony.","This material was arranged by Butler's office into\n three major components: 1)general materials in\n ring-binder notebooks to which Roman Numerals were\n assigned; 2)\"Supplemental Materials: ... \" filed in\n \"books\" numbered 1-45; and, 3) Ken Klee's research\n materials. The arrangement of these materials is not\n easily grasped, but the donor has provided a \"road map.\"\n A Butler document from around 1980 entitled \"The\n Narrative History of the Bankruptcy Act Revision\"\n provides a concise, informal legislative history of the\n Bankruptcy Reform Act of 1978 from Mr. Butler's\n perspective. It also discusses the creation and\n arrangement of these records and includes references to\n the Roman numeral numbering scheme employed by Butler's\n staff. This narrative is found in the first folder of\n the first box of bankruptcy materials(box 57). A second\n helpful narrative entitled \"The Establishment of the\n Commission\" states the reasons that impelled Congress to\n establish the Commission on Bankruptcy in June of 1970.\n This can be found in box 71 in the folder titled \"Mun.\n 5.\" Ken Klee's article on bankruptcy legislative (box\n 72) may also be of use in understanding events leading\n up to the 1978 act. The article is entitled, \"Congress\n and the Bankruptcy Act of 1976,\" and appeared in volume\n 61 of the \n American Bar Association\n Journal (October, 1975).","The \n general materials have been\n removed from the ring-binders, but the folders that now\n hold them are labeled with the Roman numeral\n corresponding to the binder in which they were formerly\n housed. Everything from 1971 research materials to the\n printed public law version of the 1978 Bankruptcy Reform\n Act can be found here. Books and pamphlets printed by\n the Government Office of Printing are found in Roman\n numeral sections I and III-IX. Included here are the\n Commission on Bankruptcy Laws Report, H.R. 10792, H.R.\n 16643, Hearings on H.R. 31 and H.R. 32, Hearings on S.\n 235, S. 236, H.R. 6, and oversized side-by-side\n comparisons of VI (H) and XIII of H.R. 31 and 32 and S.\n 2266 and H.R. 8200 (stored in box 75).","All of the \"Supplemental Legislation and Testimony\"\n is contained in 45 \"books\" and includes correspondence,\n notes and paste-ups of various sections of proposed\n versions of the bankruptcy bill. Section \"F,\" of XLIII\n \"Conference Materials\" (Box 61, Folder 9 from the\n general materials described above) contains the index to\n the 45 books. Much of the contents are reiterations of\n information from the \"Roman numeral\" notebooks arranged\n for quick reference. Testimony is arranged by bill\n section.","The Ken Klee's bankruptcy files were created while\n Klee served as associate counsel for the Subcommittee on\n Civil and Constitutional Rights of the House Committee\n on the Judiciary. They are 4 cu. ft. in extent and are\n divided into three sections: uniform bankruptcy file,\n municipal bankruptcy file (MUN), and bankruptcy act\n subject files. An index to Klee's files is contained in\n Section \"E\" of XLIII \"Conference Materials\" (Box 61,\n Folder 9). The Uniform Bankruptcy Files are arranged\n numerically beginning with the number 102 and contain\n statements, testimonies, correspondence, memoranda,\n drafts and other relevant materials regarding the\n proposed bankruptcy rules. The Municipal Bankruptcy File\n is arranged numerically. The files are designated MUN\n with a corresponding number. These files also contain\n drafts, testimonies, statements, memorandums and\n reports. Klee's Bankruptcy Subject Files are arranged\n alphabetically. Included here (under 'g') is general\n correspondence from 1973-1978.","#I - LII","(A) \n March 19-June 14, 1971 \n September 15,16-November 15, 1971 \n December 13-January 30,31, 1972 \n April 10-May 1, 1972 \n June 12-September 11-12, 1972 \n October 9-10, 1972 \n November 13-14, 1972 \n December 4-5, 1972","(B) \n December 4-5, 1972 \n January 15-16, 1973 \n February 22-24, 1973 \n March 15-17, 1973 \n April 12-14, 1973 \n June 7-12, 1973","(A) \n (B) \n (C)","(A) \n (B) \n (C)","(E) \n (F) \n (G) \n (H) -- Side-by-Side of H.R. 31 and H.R.\n 32 (2 copies) September 2, 1975. In oversize\n carton 49.","(A) \n (B) \n (C)","(A) \n (B)","(A)","(B) \n (C)","(A) \n (B)","Source 13 260;263 \n Source 14 322-323 \n Source 15 336 \n Source 20 412-415 \n Source 23A 502 \n Source 50 549;554-555 \n Source 30 587-588 \n Source 31 595-596 \n Source 33 612-613","Books for S. 2266 and H.R. 8200; H.R. 31 and H.R. 32\n ","Published by San Diego Urban League,\n Inc.","Enclosed copy of RRRA and RRRRA","Legal Services Corporation\n Act papers consist of one cu. ft. of materials\n concerning the authorization of funding for this entity\n for the fiscal years 1982-1984. Included here are: the\n authorization bill, itself; correspondence; \"discussion\n papers\"; press clippings; transcripts of testimony and\n hearing proceedings. (The one file of material about the\n re-authorization of the Department of Justice follows\n the Legal Services papers.)","The \n Voting Rights Act Extension series comprises Butler's legislative papers as a member of the House Judiciary Committee during the consideration of the extension of this Act.","The \n National Bankruptcy Review\n Commission papers are from Butler's service as a\n member of that body from 1995-1997. These 16 cu. ft. of\n materials include: correspondence; meeting minutes;\n memoranda and documents distributed to commission\n members; and the report of the commission and drafts of\n that report.","Box 91 includes audio cassette of\n \"discharge/reaffirmation hearing,\" 1997.","Bicentennial of American Revolution Flag; Bicentennial Medal, 1976; American College of Bankruptcy Commendation plaque, March 14, 1998.","Navy hat, brass buttons, insignia, pins and dog tags.","Contents: 24\"x36 inch photo of Butler, c. 1961; House Concurrent Resolution 672, July 1, 1976; Washington and Lee University Honorary Doctor of Laws Diploma, June 1, 1978; Birthday card from staff, June 2, 1973; National Small Business Association Certificate of Recognition, October 1978; certificate, Governor George Allen (Virgini) naming Butler to Governor's Advisory Council on Self-Determination and Federalism, November 14, 1994."],"userestrict_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThere are no restrictions.\u003c/p\u003e"],"userestrict_heading_ssm":["Use Restrictions"],"userestrict_tesim":["There are no restrictions."],"language_ssim":["English"],"total_component_count_is":567,"online_item_count_is":0,"component_level_isim":[0],"sort_isi":0,"timestamp":"2026-05-20T15:09:15.002Z"}]}},"label":"Breadcrumbs"}}},"links":{"self":"https://arvasarchive.org/catalog/vilxwl_vilxwl00003_c16_c02_c01_c04"}},{"id":"vilxwl_vilxwl00003_c11_c04","type":"Subseries","attributes":{"title":"10.4: Weekly Reports","breadcrumbs":{"id":"https://arvasarchive.org/catalog/vilxwl_vilxwl00003_c11_c04#breadcrumbs","type":"document_value","attributes":{"value":{"ref_ssi":"vilxwl_vilxwl00003_c11_c04","ref_ssm":["vilxwl_vilxwl00003_c11_c04"],"id":"vilxwl_vilxwl00003_c11_c04","ead_ssi":"vilxwl_vilxwl00003","_root_":"vilxwl_vilxwl00003","_nest_parent_":"vilxwl_vilxwl00003_c11","parent_ssi":"vilxwl_vilxwl00003_c11","parent_ssim":["vilxwl_vilxwl00003","vilxwl_vilxwl00003_c11"],"parent_ids_ssim":["vilxwl_vilxwl00003","vilxwl_vilxwl00003_c11"],"parent_unittitles_ssm":["M. 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Caldwell Butler Papers \n 1945-2006","This collection\n consists of ca. 93 cubic feet of materials.","The Ford medical and financial records are closed.","Manley Caldwell Butler was born June 2, 1925 in Roanoke,\n Virginia, where he lived most of his life until his death on \n July 28, 2014. Following service in the Navy in World War II,\n he received his A.B. from the University of Richmond\n in 1948 and his J.D. from the University of Virginia Law\n School in 1950. Butler married June Nolde in 1950. This union\n produced four sons: Manley, Henry, James and Marshall.","Butler served as the City of Roanoke Representative in\n 1960-1961. In 1962 he was elected to the Virginia House of\n Delegates. He was elected Minority Leader in 1966, a position\n he held until 1972 when he was elected to the 92nd U.S.\n Congress from the 6th District of Virginia. Butler served the\n 6th District for a decade. While serving on the Judiciary\n Committee, Butler participated in the impeachment action\n against President Richard M. Nixon during the summer of 1974.\n In the aftermath of Nixon's resignation, Butler was involved\n in the confirmation hearings of Gerald R. Ford and Nelson\n Rockefeller to serve as President and Vice President\n respectively. Butler was a principal architect of the\n Bankruptcy Reform Act of 1978. He was also a member of the\n Committee on Government Operations. In retirement, Butler\n served on the National Bankruptcy Review Commission in the\n years 1995-1997. ","A partner in the firm of Woods, Rogers \u0026 Hazelgrove of\n Roanoke, Virginia from 1983-1998, Mr. Butler held memberships\n in the American Bar Association, the Virginia State Bar, the\n Roanoke Bar Association, the American College of Bankruptcy,\n the Raven Society, the Order of the Coif, and the Board of\n Directors of Dominion Bank Shares Corp of Roanoke. He was also\n a Fellow of the American Bar Foundation and a Director of the\n American Bankruptcy Institute. His fraternal organization\n affiliations include Phi Beta Kappa, Tau Kappa Alpha, Omicron\n Delta Kappa and Phi Gamma Delta.","The \n M(anley)Caldwell Butler\n Papers consist of approximately 96 cu. ft. of materials from 1925-2006. Most of the papers cover the periods 1972-1982 and 1995-1997. The papers are divided\n into seventeen series: June Nolde Butler papers; correspondence and subject files; military service; appointment calendars; campaigns; scrapbooks, clippings and photos; speeches; newsletters, press\n releases, radio reports and weekly reports; voting record;\n constituency correspondence; confirmation of Gerald R. Ford as\n Vice President; impeachment of President\n Richard M. Nixon; Bankruptcy Reform Act of 1978;\n Legal Services Corporation; re-authorization of the Department of Justice\n for the Fiscal Year 1982; Voting Rights Act extension; the National Bankruptcy Review\n Commission, 1995-1997; and Artifacts, 1944-1998. With the exceptions of the first six series and National\n Bankruptcy Review Commission materials, these papers were\n generated during Butler's terms as U. S. Representative for\n the 6th Congressional District of Virginia, 1972 -1982 (93rd\n Congress - 97th Congress).","The refinement levels of processing are mixed. The gradual donation of materials over a period \n of 40 years is chiefly the cause. The Nixon Impeachment and Bankruptcy Reform Act of 1978 materials \n are mostly described down to the folder level. The National Bankruptcy Review Commission materials arrived largely self-arranged. \n Most other areas of the colleciton, however, are largely unprocessed beyond being sorted into tentative series.","This is particularly true of additions made in 2018 through the estate of Butler's son, James. This has resulted in a temporary \n box renumbering in boxes 1-7. There is also a box of artifacts added at the end of all of the papers.","Biographical materials,general correspondence, correspondence with parents and siblings,Letters, \n invitations, menus, calendars, subject files, photos, clippings, artifacts, photos scrapbook (1933-1950)\n and correspondence (1947-1950) with her future husband, M Caldwell Butler","Nixon Impeachment historical studies; Correspondence re publication of book, Stonewall Jim;\n GOP Gala, 2001; certificates of award and merit; records of naval service; education records \n and related materials.","Subjects include: United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit; \n National Bankruptcy Review Commission; Sarah Butler Memorial; Sam Garrison Bar Discipline; \n Bankruptcy Law; Watergate/Impeachment; Susan Aheron; Butler for Governor; Newspaper Items; \n Legal Services Corporation; The Miller Center; and Virginia Cares.","Correspondence, subject files, surveys, election returns, and memorabilia","In addition to campaign and general coverage, these scrapbooks treat: editorials mentioning Butler; economic conferences; farm conferences; HUD and FMHA conferences; Lynchburg Weather Station; minority business conferences.","Most of these appear to have been kept by his Congressional Office Staff. They document his day-to-day official activities.","These also document his official activities.","The recordings range from appearances on Face the Nation to local forums.","There is a variety of publications on a variety of mainly political topics. forms of materials include trade books, government documents, brochures, and magazinies. ","Speeches (1964-2001; bulk 1973-1982) are also\n arranged chronologically. The audience, occasion, and\n location are usually noted. From January 1976 onward, a\n topical index is present in addition to the\n chronological listings that are available for all of the\n years. Some nine speeches are missing from the original\n inventory, while others not on that listing were found\n during processing and added to the finding aid.","Newsletters (1973-1981)were\n generated by Congressman Butler's staff to keep citizens\n of the Sixth District of Virginia informed on issues\n before the House, and on the activities of his office.\n The newsletters(N:) are arranged chronologically with an\n alphabetical reference index that has been updated\n through October 1, 1982. This index includes references\n to Radio Reports(RR#) and Weekly Reports(WR#). News\n (Press) Releases (1972-1982), Radio Reports (1973-1978),\n and Weekly Reports (1979-1982) are arranged\n chronologically and their indices provide brief\n summaries of the topics discussed.","The \n Members Personal Voting\n Record covers the period 1973-1982 (93rd Congress\n First Session to the 97th Congress Second Session). Each\n Congress' voting record is divided into two sessions. A\n cumulative record for each Congress is also present.\n Included here are: roll numbers, dates, daily record\n page number, description, and members response. Each\n record contains a roll call subject guide and an index\n to the voting record. Although Butler began his\n congressional term with the 92nd Congress, there is no\n personal voting record for this time.","The \n Constituency Correspondence is\n almost exclusively from the period of the impeachment of\n Richard M. Nixon. The letters are divided into those\n favoring impeachment and those opposed to this action.\n There is also correspondence in reaction to the pardon\n of Nixon by President Gerald R. Ford.","Materials concerning the \n Confirmation of Gerald R. Ford as\n Vice President include: correspondence, memoranda,\n a briefing book, and transcriptions of testimony and\n proceedings during the hearings.","Ford medical and financial records are closed.","Congressman Butler sat on the House Judiciary\n committee that investigated and voted on the \n impeachment of President Richard M.\n Nixon . The impeachment materials are 15 cu. ft.\n in extent and include: narratives about the Watergate\n break-in and related events, and about the bombing of\n Cambodia; interview transcripts and recorded testimony\n of persons involved in Watergate activities; general\n impeachment inquiry materials(committee notebooks,\n personal notes, etc.); reports on White House\n Surveillance activities; Department of Justice/ITT\n Litigation; Milk Producers Cooperatives investigations;\n papers re the Judiciary Committee's \"Fragile Coalition\";\n general correspondence and memoranda; and printed\n materials. (See also, the series of constituent\n correspondence that precedes the impeachment materials.\n Butler kept an audio diary during the impeachment\n process, and these cassette recordings are included\n here, as are his written notes from this time. Also\n present are partial transcripts of an oral history\n project on the \"Fragile Coalition\" conducted in\n 1974.","Unrevised and unedited","The \n Printed Materials are primarily government documents\n from the period of the impeachment of\n Richard M. Nixon. Below is an enumeration of the titles present from donor gifts 1980-1983. Titles from additions, 1985-2015 are present in these boxes, but not yet listed below.","Book I: December 2, 1971 - June 17,\n 1972","Book I: June 19, 1972 - March 1, 1974 \n Book II: June 17, 1972 - February 9,\n 1973","Book III: June 20, 1972 - March 22,\n 1973","Book IV: March 22, 1973 - April 30,\n 1973","Appendix: Political Matters Memoranda \n I: Presidential Statements \n II: Papers in Criminal Cases \n III: Supplementary Documents \n IV: Political Matters memoranda","Executive Session Hearings Before the Select\n Committee on Presidential Campaign Activities\n of the United States Senate, November\n 13,14,15,16, December 4, 11, 1973.","There are three distinct audio recording projects documenting the days of the House\n Judiciary Committee Nixon Impeachment proceedings in July 1974. The first was part audio\n diary and part interviews involving Rep. Butler and reporter Wayne Woodlief. This project \n ran from May to early August 1974, with most of the recordings being from July. The recordings\n of most of these sessions -- some are missing; it is thought to be few, but there is no definitive \n way of knowing -- are in audio cassettes housed in box 55. There is a user set of CDs of these \n recordings in that box, and there are digital audio files of these tapes housed in Box on the Washington and Lee University \n network. There is also an incomplete set of transcripts for this project in box 54. Woodlief \n spoke of trying to produce a book at least partially based on these tapes. He sent such a proposal\n to Butler on July 10, 1975. The only printed product to emerge from these recordings, however, was \n an extensive article in the July 27, 1975 edition of The Roanoke Times , \n also published in the Virginian-Pilot of the same date.","The second recordings were much more limited in scope. On July 31, 1974, Butler sat down with\n Thomas Mooney, a Judiciary Committee attorney, to record on audiotape, their recollection of \n events as they unfolded on July 22-24. Their primary aim seems to have been capturing the \n drafting of the articles of impeachment. There are transcripts -- again just how complete cannot\n be determined, but not any recordings themselves.","The third project was the most ambitious. It was an attempt to record the Nixon Impeachment memories\n of all of the members of the so-called Fragile Coalition, those Democratic and Republican members of \n the House Judiciary Committee who held the swing votes on impeachment. They came together to draft \n articles of impeachment on which they could all vote \"yes\".","The organizers of this project were Thomas Mooney Sr., Stephen Lynch, and Father Donald Shea, longtime chair\n of the history department at St. Joseph College (Indiana). Mooney was a St. Joseph College alumnus and friend\n of Father Shea. The project was funded by St. Joseph College, and other private funds were solicited, as well.","The project had two parts. In the first part, the organizers interviewed members of the coalition \n individually in their Washington Congressional offices in June 1975. This was followed by a retreat on Hilton Head \n Island, SC in July 1975. Extensive aide memoire printed materials were gathered and given to each member of the coalition \n in advance. The recordings made there were in panel format only, with all of the Fragile Coalition members present.","There are no recordings from this project in the Butler papers. There are transcripts -- once again, there is no\n telling how complete -- from both the individual interviews and the Hilton Head panels. There is a third category of\n transcripts, those with interviewees' corrections handwritten on transcriptions. These corrected copies are from both the \n individual and group sessions. Some of these transcripts were sent to Butler and the Powell Archives by the University\n of Maine's Fogler Library which houses the papers of Fragile Coalition member William Cohen.","Unlike the printed materials that are found throughout the Impeachment series, these books and magazines\n are not government documents. There are copies of Time, Newsweek, and\n Life magazines from the time of the impeachment. There are also books and \n a college thesis giving retropective views on that period.","The \n Bankruptcy Materials are 18\n cu. ft. of papers documenting Butler's work in the\n drafting and passage of the legislation popularly known\n as the Bankruptcy Reform Act of 1978. Forms of materials\n present include: minutes of the Bankruptcy Commission,\n markup books on various versions of bankruptcy bills,\n memoranda, briefing materials, meetings transcripts,\n hearing transcripts, conference materials, Congressional\n Record Notebooks, audio tapes of markup sessions, and\n supplemental information on bankruptcy legislation with\n relevant testimony.","This material was arranged by Butler's office into\n three major components: 1)general materials in\n ring-binder notebooks to which Roman Numerals were\n assigned; 2)\"Supplemental Materials: ... \" filed in\n \"books\" numbered 1-45; and, 3) Ken Klee's research\n materials. The arrangement of these materials is not\n easily grasped, but the donor has provided a \"road map.\"\n A Butler document from around 1980 entitled \"The\n Narrative History of the Bankruptcy Act Revision\"\n provides a concise, informal legislative history of the\n Bankruptcy Reform Act of 1978 from Mr. Butler's\n perspective. It also discusses the creation and\n arrangement of these records and includes references to\n the Roman numeral numbering scheme employed by Butler's\n staff. This narrative is found in the first folder of\n the first box of bankruptcy materials(box 57). A second\n helpful narrative entitled \"The Establishment of the\n Commission\" states the reasons that impelled Congress to\n establish the Commission on Bankruptcy in June of 1970.\n This can be found in box 71 in the folder titled \"Mun.\n 5.\" Ken Klee's article on bankruptcy legislative (box\n 72) may also be of use in understanding events leading\n up to the 1978 act. The article is entitled, \"Congress\n and the Bankruptcy Act of 1976,\" and appeared in volume\n 61 of the \n American Bar Association\n Journal (October, 1975).","The \n general materials have been\n removed from the ring-binders, but the folders that now\n hold them are labeled with the Roman numeral\n corresponding to the binder in which they were formerly\n housed. Everything from 1971 research materials to the\n printed public law version of the 1978 Bankruptcy Reform\n Act can be found here. Books and pamphlets printed by\n the Government Office of Printing are found in Roman\n numeral sections I and III-IX. Included here are the\n Commission on Bankruptcy Laws Report, H.R. 10792, H.R.\n 16643, Hearings on H.R. 31 and H.R. 32, Hearings on S.\n 235, S. 236, H.R. 6, and oversized side-by-side\n comparisons of VI (H) and XIII of H.R. 31 and 32 and S.\n 2266 and H.R. 8200 (stored in box 75).","All of the \"Supplemental Legislation and Testimony\"\n is contained in 45 \"books\" and includes correspondence,\n notes and paste-ups of various sections of proposed\n versions of the bankruptcy bill. Section \"F,\" of XLIII\n \"Conference Materials\" (Box 61, Folder 9 from the\n general materials described above) contains the index to\n the 45 books. Much of the contents are reiterations of\n information from the \"Roman numeral\" notebooks arranged\n for quick reference. Testimony is arranged by bill\n section.","The Ken Klee's bankruptcy files were created while\n Klee served as associate counsel for the Subcommittee on\n Civil and Constitutional Rights of the House Committee\n on the Judiciary. They are 4 cu. ft. in extent and are\n divided into three sections: uniform bankruptcy file,\n municipal bankruptcy file (MUN), and bankruptcy act\n subject files. An index to Klee's files is contained in\n Section \"E\" of XLIII \"Conference Materials\" (Box 61,\n Folder 9). The Uniform Bankruptcy Files are arranged\n numerically beginning with the number 102 and contain\n statements, testimonies, correspondence, memoranda,\n drafts and other relevant materials regarding the\n proposed bankruptcy rules. The Municipal Bankruptcy File\n is arranged numerically. The files are designated MUN\n with a corresponding number. These files also contain\n drafts, testimonies, statements, memorandums and\n reports. Klee's Bankruptcy Subject Files are arranged\n alphabetically. Included here (under 'g') is general\n correspondence from 1973-1978.","#I - LII","(A) \n March 19-June 14, 1971 \n September 15,16-November 15, 1971 \n December 13-January 30,31, 1972 \n April 10-May 1, 1972 \n June 12-September 11-12, 1972 \n October 9-10, 1972 \n November 13-14, 1972 \n December 4-5, 1972","(B) \n December 4-5, 1972 \n January 15-16, 1973 \n February 22-24, 1973 \n March 15-17, 1973 \n April 12-14, 1973 \n June 7-12, 1973","(A) \n (B) \n (C)","(A) \n (B) \n (C)","(E) \n (F) \n (G) \n (H) -- Side-by-Side of H.R. 31 and H.R.\n 32 (2 copies) September 2, 1975. In oversize\n carton 49.","(A) \n (B) \n (C)","(A) \n (B)","(A)","(B) \n (C)","(A) \n (B)","Source 13 260;263 \n Source 14 322-323 \n Source 15 336 \n Source 20 412-415 \n Source 23A 502 \n Source 50 549;554-555 \n Source 30 587-588 \n Source 31 595-596 \n Source 33 612-613","Books for S. 2266 and H.R. 8200; H.R. 31 and H.R. 32\n ","Published by San Diego Urban League,\n Inc.","Enclosed copy of RRRA and RRRRA","Legal Services Corporation\n Act papers consist of one cu. ft. of materials\n concerning the authorization of funding for this entity\n for the fiscal years 1982-1984. Included here are: the\n authorization bill, itself; correspondence; \"discussion\n papers\"; press clippings; transcripts of testimony and\n hearing proceedings. (The one file of material about the\n re-authorization of the Department of Justice follows\n the Legal Services papers.)","The \n Voting Rights Act Extension series comprises Butler's legislative papers as a member of the House Judiciary Committee during the consideration of the extension of this Act.","The \n National Bankruptcy Review\n Commission papers are from Butler's service as a\n member of that body from 1995-1997. These 16 cu. ft. of\n materials include: correspondence; meeting minutes;\n memoranda and documents distributed to commission\n members; and the report of the commission and drafts of\n that report.","Box 91 includes audio cassette of\n \"discharge/reaffirmation hearing,\" 1997.","Bicentennial of American Revolution Flag; Bicentennial Medal, 1976; American College of Bankruptcy Commendation plaque, March 14, 1998.","Navy hat, brass buttons, insignia, pins and dog tags.","Contents: 24\"x36 inch photo of Butler, c. 1961; House Concurrent Resolution 672, July 1, 1976; Washington and Lee University Honorary Doctor of Laws Diploma, June 1, 1978; Birthday card from staff, June 2, 1973; National Small Business Association Certificate of Recognition, October 1978; certificate, Governor George Allen (Virgini) naming Butler to Governor's Advisory Council on Self-Determination and Federalism, November 14, 1994.","There are no restrictions.","English"],"unitid_tesim":["004"],"normalized_title_ssm":["M. Caldwell Butler Papers \n 1945-2006"],"collection_title_tesim":["M. Caldwell Butler Papers \n 1945-2006"],"collection_ssim":["M. Caldwell Butler Papers \n 1945-2006"],"repository_ssm":["Washington and Lee University, Law School"],"repository_ssim":["Washington and Lee University, Law School"],"acqinfo_ssim":["This collection was given to the library by M. Caldwell\n Butler in 1980-1983,1997,1999, 2004 and by his estate in 2015."],"has_online_content_ssim":["false"],"physdesc_tesim":["This collection\n consists of ca. 93 cubic feet of materials."],"accessrestrict_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThe Ford medical and financial records are closed.\u003c/p\u003e"],"accessrestrict_heading_ssm":["Access"],"accessrestrict_tesim":["The Ford medical and financial records are closed."],"bioghist_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eManley Caldwell Butler was born June 2, 1925 in Roanoke,\n Virginia, where he lived most of his life until his death on \n July 28, 2014. Following service in the Navy in World War II,\n he received his A.B. from the University of Richmond\n in 1948 and his J.D. from the University of Virginia Law\n School in 1950. Butler married June Nolde in 1950. This union\n produced four sons: Manley, Henry, James and Marshall.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eButler served as the City of Roanoke Representative in\n 1960-1961. In 1962 he was elected to the Virginia House of\n Delegates. He was elected Minority Leader in 1966, a position\n he held until 1972 when he was elected to the 92nd U.S.\n Congress from the 6th District of Virginia. Butler served the\n 6th District for a decade. While serving on the Judiciary\n Committee, Butler participated in the impeachment action\n against President Richard M. Nixon during the summer of 1974.\n In the aftermath of Nixon's resignation, Butler was involved\n in the confirmation hearings of Gerald R. Ford and Nelson\n Rockefeller to serve as President and Vice President\n respectively. Butler was a principal architect of the\n Bankruptcy Reform Act of 1978. He was also a member of the\n Committee on Government Operations. In retirement, Butler\n served on the National Bankruptcy Review Commission in the\n years 1995-1997. \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA partner in the firm of Woods, Rogers \u0026amp; Hazelgrove of\n Roanoke, Virginia from 1983-1998, Mr. Butler held memberships\n in the American Bar Association, the Virginia State Bar, the\n Roanoke Bar Association, the American College of Bankruptcy,\n the Raven Society, the Order of the Coif, and the Board of\n Directors of Dominion Bank Shares Corp of Roanoke. He was also\n a Fellow of the American Bar Foundation and a Director of the\n American Bankruptcy Institute. His fraternal organization\n affiliations include Phi Beta Kappa, Tau Kappa Alpha, Omicron\n Delta Kappa and Phi Gamma Delta.\u003c/p\u003e"],"bioghist_heading_ssm":["Biographical/Historical Information"],"bioghist_tesim":["Manley Caldwell Butler was born June 2, 1925 in Roanoke,\n Virginia, where he lived most of his life until his death on \n July 28, 2014. Following service in the Navy in World War II,\n he received his A.B. from the University of Richmond\n in 1948 and his J.D. from the University of Virginia Law\n School in 1950. Butler married June Nolde in 1950. This union\n produced four sons: Manley, Henry, James and Marshall.","Butler served as the City of Roanoke Representative in\n 1960-1961. In 1962 he was elected to the Virginia House of\n Delegates. He was elected Minority Leader in 1966, a position\n he held until 1972 when he was elected to the 92nd U.S.\n Congress from the 6th District of Virginia. Butler served the\n 6th District for a decade. While serving on the Judiciary\n Committee, Butler participated in the impeachment action\n against President Richard M. Nixon during the summer of 1974.\n In the aftermath of Nixon's resignation, Butler was involved\n in the confirmation hearings of Gerald R. Ford and Nelson\n Rockefeller to serve as President and Vice President\n respectively. Butler was a principal architect of the\n Bankruptcy Reform Act of 1978. He was also a member of the\n Committee on Government Operations. In retirement, Butler\n served on the National Bankruptcy Review Commission in the\n years 1995-1997. ","A partner in the firm of Woods, Rogers \u0026 Hazelgrove of\n Roanoke, Virginia from 1983-1998, Mr. Butler held memberships\n in the American Bar Association, the Virginia State Bar, the\n Roanoke Bar Association, the American College of Bankruptcy,\n the Raven Society, the Order of the Coif, and the Board of\n Directors of Dominion Bank Shares Corp of Roanoke. He was also\n a Fellow of the American Bar Foundation and a Director of the\n American Bankruptcy Institute. His fraternal organization\n affiliations include Phi Beta Kappa, Tau Kappa Alpha, Omicron\n Delta Kappa and Phi Gamma Delta."],"prefercite_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eM. Caldwell Butler Papers, 1945-2006, Ms 004,\n Lewis F. Powell, Jr. Archives, Washington and Lee\n University School of Law, Lexington, VA\u003c/p\u003e"],"prefercite_tesim":["M. Caldwell Butler Papers, 1945-2006, Ms 004,\n Lewis F. Powell, Jr. Archives, Washington and Lee\n University School of Law, Lexington, VA"],"scopecontent_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThe \n M(anley)Caldwell Butler\n Papers consist of approximately 96 cu. ft. of materials from 1925-2006. Most of the papers cover the periods 1972-1982 and 1995-1997. The papers are divided\n into seventeen series: June Nolde Butler papers; correspondence and subject files; military service; appointment calendars; campaigns; scrapbooks, clippings and photos; speeches; newsletters, press\n releases, radio reports and weekly reports; voting record;\n constituency correspondence; confirmation of Gerald R. Ford as\n Vice President; impeachment of President\n Richard M. Nixon; Bankruptcy Reform Act of 1978;\n Legal Services Corporation; re-authorization of the Department of Justice\n for the Fiscal Year 1982; Voting Rights Act extension; the National Bankruptcy Review\n Commission, 1995-1997; and Artifacts, 1944-1998. With the exceptions of the first six series and National\n Bankruptcy Review Commission materials, these papers were\n generated during Butler's terms as U. S. Representative for\n the 6th Congressional District of Virginia, 1972 -1982 (93rd\n Congress - 97th Congress).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe refinement levels of processing are mixed. The gradual donation of materials over a period \n of 40 years is chiefly the cause. The Nixon Impeachment and Bankruptcy Reform Act of 1978 materials \n are mostly described down to the folder level. The National Bankruptcy Review Commission materials arrived largely self-arranged. \n Most other areas of the colleciton, however, are largely unprocessed beyond being sorted into tentative series.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis is particularly true of additions made in 2018 through the estate of Butler's son, James. This has resulted in a temporary \n box renumbering in boxes 1-7. There is also a box of artifacts added at the end of all of the papers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBiographical materials,general correspondence, correspondence with parents and siblings,Letters, \n invitations, menus, calendars, subject files, photos, clippings, artifacts, photos scrapbook (1933-1950)\n and correspondence (1947-1950) with her future husband, M Caldwell Butler\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNixon Impeachment historical studies; Correspondence re publication of book, Stonewall Jim;\n GOP Gala, 2001; certificates of award and merit; records of naval service; education records \n and related materials.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSubjects include: United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit; \n National Bankruptcy Review Commission; Sarah Butler Memorial; Sam Garrison Bar Discipline; \n Bankruptcy Law; Watergate/Impeachment; Susan Aheron; Butler for Governor; Newspaper Items; \n Legal Services Corporation; The Miller Center; and Virginia Cares.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence, subject files, surveys, election returns, and memorabilia\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIn addition to campaign and general coverage, these scrapbooks treat: editorials mentioning Butler; economic conferences; farm conferences; HUD and FMHA conferences; Lynchburg Weather Station; minority business conferences.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMost of these appear to have been kept by his Congressional Office Staff. They document his day-to-day official activities.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThese also document his official activities.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe recordings range from appearances on \u003ctitle render=\"italic\"\u003eFace the Nation \u003c/title\u003e to local forums.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere is a variety of publications on a variety of mainly political topics. forms of materials include trade books, government documents, brochures, and magazinies. \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eSpeeches\u003c/emph\u003e(1964-2001; bulk 1973-1982) are also\n arranged chronologically. The audience, occasion, and\n location are usually noted. From January 1976 onward, a\n topical index is present in addition to the\n chronological listings that are available for all of the\n years. Some nine speeches are missing from the original\n inventory, while others not on that listing were found\n during processing and added to the finding aid.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eNewsletters\u003c/emph\u003e(1973-1981)were\n generated by Congressman Butler's staff to keep citizens\n of the Sixth District of Virginia informed on issues\n before the House, and on the activities of his office.\n The newsletters(N:) are arranged chronologically with an\n alphabetical reference index that has been updated\n through October 1, 1982. This index includes references\n to Radio Reports(RR#) and Weekly Reports(WR#). News\n (Press) Releases (1972-1982), Radio Reports (1973-1978),\n and Weekly Reports (1979-1982) are arranged\n chronologically and their indices provide brief\n summaries of the topics discussed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe \n \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eMembers Personal Voting\n Record\u003c/emph\u003ecovers the period 1973-1982 (93rd Congress\n First Session to the 97th Congress Second Session). Each\n Congress' voting record is divided into two sessions. A\n cumulative record for each Congress is also present.\n Included here are: roll numbers, dates, daily record\n page number, description, and members response. Each\n record contains a roll call subject guide and an index\n to the voting record. Although Butler began his\n congressional term with the 92nd Congress, there is no\n personal voting record for this time.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe \n \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eConstituency Correspondence\u003c/emph\u003eis\n almost exclusively from the period of the impeachment of\n Richard M. Nixon. The letters are divided into those\n favoring impeachment and those opposed to this action.\n There is also correspondence in reaction to the pardon\n of Nixon by President Gerald R. Ford.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMaterials concerning the \n \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eConfirmation of Gerald R. Ford as\n Vice President\u003c/emph\u003einclude: correspondence, memoranda,\n a briefing book, and transcriptions of testimony and\n proceedings during the hearings.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFord medical and financial records are closed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCongressman Butler sat on the House Judiciary\n committee that investigated and voted on the \n \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eimpeachment of President Richard M.\n Nixon\u003c/emph\u003e. The impeachment materials are 15 cu. ft.\n in extent and include: narratives about the Watergate\n break-in and related events, and about the bombing of\n Cambodia; interview transcripts and recorded testimony\n of persons involved in Watergate activities; general\n impeachment inquiry materials(committee notebooks,\n personal notes, etc.); reports on White House\n Surveillance activities; Department of Justice/ITT\n Litigation; Milk Producers Cooperatives investigations;\n papers re the Judiciary Committee's \"Fragile Coalition\";\n general correspondence and memoranda; and printed\n materials. (See also, the series of constituent\n correspondence that precedes the impeachment materials.\n Butler kept an audio diary during the impeachment\n process, and these cassette recordings are included\n here, as are his written notes from this time. Also\n present are partial transcripts of an oral history\n project on the \"Fragile Coalition\" conducted in\n 1974.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eUnrevised and unedited\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe \n \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003ePrinted Materials\u003c/emph\u003eare primarily government documents\n from the period of the impeachment of\n Richard M. Nixon. Below is an enumeration of the titles present from donor gifts 1980-1983. Titles from additions, 1985-2015 are present in these boxes, but not yet listed below.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBook I: December 2, 1971 - June 17,\n 1972\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBook I: June 19, 1972 - March 1, 1974 \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eBook II: June 17, 1972 - February 9,\n 1973\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBook III: June 20, 1972 - March 22,\n 1973\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBook IV: March 22, 1973 - April 30,\n 1973\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAppendix: Political Matters Memoranda \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eI: Presidential Statements \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eII: Papers in Criminal Cases \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eIII: Supplementary Documents \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eIV: Political Matters memoranda\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eExecutive Session Hearings Before the Select\n Committee on Presidential Campaign Activities\n of the United States Senate, November\n 13,14,15,16, December 4, 11, 1973.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere are three distinct audio recording projects documenting the days of the House\n Judiciary Committee Nixon Impeachment proceedings in July 1974. The first was part audio\n diary and part interviews involving Rep. Butler and reporter Wayne Woodlief. This project \n ran from May to early August 1974, with most of the recordings being from July. The recordings\n of most of these sessions -- some are missing; it is thought to be few, but there is no definitive \n way of knowing -- are in audio cassettes housed in box 55. There is a user set of CDs of these \n recordings in that box, and there are digital audio files of these tapes housed in Box on the Washington and Lee University \n network. There is also an incomplete set of transcripts for this project in box 54. Woodlief \n spoke of trying to produce a book at least partially based on these tapes. He sent such a proposal\n to Butler on July 10, 1975. The only printed product to emerge from these recordings, however, was \n an extensive article in the July 27, 1975 edition of The \u003ctitle render=\"italic\"\u003eRoanoke Times\u003c/title\u003e, \n also published in the \u003ctitle render=\"italic\"\u003eVirginian-Pilot\u003c/title\u003e of the same date.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe second recordings were much more limited in scope. On July 31, 1974, Butler sat down with\n Thomas Mooney, a Judiciary Committee attorney, to record on audiotape, their recollection of \n events as they unfolded on July 22-24. Their primary aim seems to have been capturing the \n drafting of the articles of impeachment. There are transcripts -- again just how complete cannot\n be determined, but not any recordings themselves.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe third project was the most ambitious. It was an attempt to record the Nixon Impeachment memories\n of all of the members of the so-called Fragile Coalition, those Democratic and Republican members of \n the House Judiciary Committee who held the swing votes on impeachment. They came together to draft \n articles of impeachment on which they could all vote \"yes\".\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe organizers of this project were Thomas Mooney Sr., Stephen Lynch, and Father Donald Shea, longtime chair\n of the history department at St. Joseph College (Indiana). Mooney was a St. Joseph College alumnus and friend\n of Father Shea. The project was funded by St. Joseph College, and other private funds were solicited, as well.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe project had two parts. In the first part, the organizers interviewed members of the coalition \n individually in their Washington Congressional offices in June 1975. This was followed by a retreat on Hilton Head \n Island, SC in July 1975. Extensive aide memoire printed materials were gathered and given to each member of the coalition \n in advance. The recordings made there were in panel format only, with all of the Fragile Coalition members present.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere are no recordings from this project in the Butler papers. There are transcripts -- once again, there is no\n telling how complete -- from both the individual interviews and the Hilton Head panels. There is a third category of\n transcripts, those with interviewees' corrections handwritten on transcriptions. These corrected copies are from both the \n individual and group sessions. Some of these transcripts were sent to Butler and the Powell Archives by the University\n of Maine's Fogler Library which houses the papers of Fragile Coalition member William Cohen.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eUnlike the printed materials that are found throughout the Impeachment series, these books and magazines\n are not government documents. There are copies of \u003ctitle render=\"italic\"\u003eTime, Newsweek,\u003c/title\u003e and\n \u003ctitle render=\"italic\"\u003eLife\u003c/title\u003e magazines from the time of the impeachment. There are also books and \n a college thesis giving retropective views on that period.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe \n \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eBankruptcy Materials\u003c/emph\u003eare 18\n cu. ft. of papers documenting Butler's work in the\n drafting and passage of the legislation popularly known\n as the Bankruptcy Reform Act of 1978. Forms of materials\n present include: minutes of the Bankruptcy Commission,\n markup books on various versions of bankruptcy bills,\n memoranda, briefing materials, meetings transcripts,\n hearing transcripts, conference materials, Congressional\n Record Notebooks, audio tapes of markup sessions, and\n supplemental information on bankruptcy legislation with\n relevant testimony.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis material was arranged by Butler's office into\n three major components: 1)general materials in\n ring-binder notebooks to which Roman Numerals were\n assigned; 2)\"Supplemental Materials: ... \" filed in\n \"books\" numbered 1-45; and, 3) Ken Klee's research\n materials. The arrangement of these materials is not\n easily grasped, but the donor has provided a \"road map.\"\n A Butler document from around 1980 entitled \"The\n Narrative History of the Bankruptcy Act Revision\"\n provides a concise, informal legislative history of the\n Bankruptcy Reform Act of 1978 from Mr. Butler's\n perspective. It also discusses the creation and\n arrangement of these records and includes references to\n the Roman numeral numbering scheme employed by Butler's\n staff. This narrative is found in the first folder of\n the first box of bankruptcy materials(box 57). A second\n helpful narrative entitled \"The Establishment of the\n Commission\" states the reasons that impelled Congress to\n establish the Commission on Bankruptcy in June of 1970.\n This can be found in box 71 in the folder titled \"Mun.\n 5.\" Ken Klee's article on bankruptcy legislative (box\n 72) may also be of use in understanding events leading\n up to the 1978 act. The article is entitled, \"Congress\n and the Bankruptcy Act of 1976,\" and appeared in volume\n 61 of the \n \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eAmerican Bar Association\n Journal\u003c/title\u003e(October, 1975).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe \n \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003egeneral materials\u003c/emph\u003ehave been\n removed from the ring-binders, but the folders that now\n hold them are labeled with the Roman numeral\n corresponding to the binder in which they were formerly\n housed. Everything from 1971 research materials to the\n printed public law version of the 1978 Bankruptcy Reform\n Act can be found here. Books and pamphlets printed by\n the Government Office of Printing are found in Roman\n numeral sections I and III-IX. Included here are the\n Commission on Bankruptcy Laws Report, H.R. 10792, H.R.\n 16643, Hearings on H.R. 31 and H.R. 32, Hearings on S.\n 235, S. 236, H.R. 6, and oversized side-by-side\n comparisons of VI (H) and XIII of H.R. 31 and 32 and S.\n 2266 and H.R. 8200 (stored in box 75).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAll of the \"Supplemental Legislation and Testimony\"\n is contained in 45 \"books\" and includes correspondence,\n notes and paste-ups of various sections of proposed\n versions of the bankruptcy bill. Section \"F,\" of XLIII\n \"Conference Materials\" (Box 61, Folder 9 from the\n general materials described above) contains the index to\n the 45 books. Much of the contents are reiterations of\n information from the \"Roman numeral\" notebooks arranged\n for quick reference. Testimony is arranged by bill\n section.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe Ken Klee's bankruptcy files were created while\n Klee served as associate counsel for the Subcommittee on\n Civil and Constitutional Rights of the House Committee\n on the Judiciary. They are 4 cu. ft. in extent and are\n divided into three sections: uniform bankruptcy file,\n municipal bankruptcy file (MUN), and bankruptcy act\n subject files. An index to Klee's files is contained in\n Section \"E\" of XLIII \"Conference Materials\" (Box 61,\n Folder 9). The Uniform Bankruptcy Files are arranged\n numerically beginning with the number 102 and contain\n statements, testimonies, correspondence, memoranda,\n drafts and other relevant materials regarding the\n proposed bankruptcy rules. The Municipal Bankruptcy File\n is arranged numerically. The files are designated MUN\n with a corresponding number. These files also contain\n drafts, testimonies, statements, memorandums and\n reports. Klee's Bankruptcy Subject Files are arranged\n alphabetically. Included here (under 'g') is general\n correspondence from 1973-1978.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e#I - LII\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e(A) \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eMarch 19-June 14, 1971 \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eSeptember 15,16-November 15, 1971 \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eDecember 13-January 30,31, 1972 \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eApril 10-May 1, 1972 \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eJune 12-September 11-12, 1972 \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eOctober 9-10, 1972 \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eNovember 13-14, 1972 \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eDecember 4-5, 1972\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e(B) \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eDecember 4-5, 1972 \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eJanuary 15-16, 1973 \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eFebruary 22-24, 1973 \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eMarch 15-17, 1973 \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eApril 12-14, 1973 \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eJune 7-12, 1973\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e(A) \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e(B) \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e(C)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e(A) \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e(B) \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e(C)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e(E) \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e(F) \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e(G) \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e(H) -- Side-by-Side of H.R. 31 and H.R.\n 32 (2 copies) September 2, 1975. In oversize\n carton 49.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e(A) \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e(B) \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e(C)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e(A) \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e(B)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e(A)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e(B) \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e(C)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e(A) \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e(B)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSource 13 260;263 \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eSource 14 322-323 \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eSource 15 336 \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eSource 20 412-415 \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eSource 23A 502 \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eSource 50 549;554-555 \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eSource 30 587-588 \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eSource 31 595-596 \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eSource 33 612-613\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBooks for S. 2266 and H.R. 8200; H.R. 31 and H.R. 32\n \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePublished by San Diego Urban League,\n Inc.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEnclosed copy of RRRA and RRRRA\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eLegal Services Corporation\n Act\u003c/emph\u003epapers consist of one cu. ft. of materials\n concerning the authorization of funding for this entity\n for the fiscal years 1982-1984. Included here are: the\n authorization bill, itself; correspondence; \"discussion\n papers\"; press clippings; transcripts of testimony and\n hearing proceedings. (The one file of material about the\n re-authorization of the Department of Justice follows\n the Legal Services papers.)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe \n \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eVoting Rights Act Extension\u003c/emph\u003eseries comprises Butler's legislative papers as a member of the House Judiciary Committee during the consideration of the extension of this Act.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe \n \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eNational Bankruptcy Review\n Commission\u003c/emph\u003epapers are from Butler's service as a\n member of that body from 1995-1997. These 16 cu. ft. of\n materials include: correspondence; meeting minutes;\n memoranda and documents distributed to commission\n members; and the report of the commission and drafts of\n that report.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBox 91 includes audio cassette of\n \"discharge/reaffirmation hearing,\" 1997.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBicentennial of American Revolution Flag; Bicentennial Medal, 1976; American College of Bankruptcy Commendation plaque, March 14, 1998.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNavy hat, brass buttons, insignia, pins and dog tags.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eContents: 24\"x36 inch photo of Butler, c. 1961; House Concurrent Resolution 672, July 1, 1976; Washington and Lee University Honorary Doctor of Laws Diploma, June 1, 1978; Birthday card from staff, June 2, 1973; National Small Business Association Certificate of Recognition, October 1978; certificate, Governor George Allen (Virgini) naming Butler to Governor's Advisory Council on Self-Determination and Federalism, November 14, 1994.\u003c/p\u003e"],"scopecontent_heading_ssm":["Scope and Content Information","Scope and Content\n "],"scopecontent_tesim":["The \n M(anley)Caldwell Butler\n Papers consist of approximately 96 cu. ft. of materials from 1925-2006. Most of the papers cover the periods 1972-1982 and 1995-1997. The papers are divided\n into seventeen series: June Nolde Butler papers; correspondence and subject files; military service; appointment calendars; campaigns; scrapbooks, clippings and photos; speeches; newsletters, press\n releases, radio reports and weekly reports; voting record;\n constituency correspondence; confirmation of Gerald R. Ford as\n Vice President; impeachment of President\n Richard M. Nixon; Bankruptcy Reform Act of 1978;\n Legal Services Corporation; re-authorization of the Department of Justice\n for the Fiscal Year 1982; Voting Rights Act extension; the National Bankruptcy Review\n Commission, 1995-1997; and Artifacts, 1944-1998. With the exceptions of the first six series and National\n Bankruptcy Review Commission materials, these papers were\n generated during Butler's terms as U. S. Representative for\n the 6th Congressional District of Virginia, 1972 -1982 (93rd\n Congress - 97th Congress).","The refinement levels of processing are mixed. The gradual donation of materials over a period \n of 40 years is chiefly the cause. The Nixon Impeachment and Bankruptcy Reform Act of 1978 materials \n are mostly described down to the folder level. The National Bankruptcy Review Commission materials arrived largely self-arranged. \n Most other areas of the colleciton, however, are largely unprocessed beyond being sorted into tentative series.","This is particularly true of additions made in 2018 through the estate of Butler's son, James. This has resulted in a temporary \n box renumbering in boxes 1-7. There is also a box of artifacts added at the end of all of the papers.","Biographical materials,general correspondence, correspondence with parents and siblings,Letters, \n invitations, menus, calendars, subject files, photos, clippings, artifacts, photos scrapbook (1933-1950)\n and correspondence (1947-1950) with her future husband, M Caldwell Butler","Nixon Impeachment historical studies; Correspondence re publication of book, Stonewall Jim;\n GOP Gala, 2001; certificates of award and merit; records of naval service; education records \n and related materials.","Subjects include: United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit; \n National Bankruptcy Review Commission; Sarah Butler Memorial; Sam Garrison Bar Discipline; \n Bankruptcy Law; Watergate/Impeachment; Susan Aheron; Butler for Governor; Newspaper Items; \n Legal Services Corporation; The Miller Center; and Virginia Cares.","Correspondence, subject files, surveys, election returns, and memorabilia","In addition to campaign and general coverage, these scrapbooks treat: editorials mentioning Butler; economic conferences; farm conferences; HUD and FMHA conferences; Lynchburg Weather Station; minority business conferences.","Most of these appear to have been kept by his Congressional Office Staff. They document his day-to-day official activities.","These also document his official activities.","The recordings range from appearances on Face the Nation to local forums.","There is a variety of publications on a variety of mainly political topics. forms of materials include trade books, government documents, brochures, and magazinies. ","Speeches (1964-2001; bulk 1973-1982) are also\n arranged chronologically. The audience, occasion, and\n location are usually noted. From January 1976 onward, a\n topical index is present in addition to the\n chronological listings that are available for all of the\n years. Some nine speeches are missing from the original\n inventory, while others not on that listing were found\n during processing and added to the finding aid.","Newsletters (1973-1981)were\n generated by Congressman Butler's staff to keep citizens\n of the Sixth District of Virginia informed on issues\n before the House, and on the activities of his office.\n The newsletters(N:) are arranged chronologically with an\n alphabetical reference index that has been updated\n through October 1, 1982. This index includes references\n to Radio Reports(RR#) and Weekly Reports(WR#). News\n (Press) Releases (1972-1982), Radio Reports (1973-1978),\n and Weekly Reports (1979-1982) are arranged\n chronologically and their indices provide brief\n summaries of the topics discussed.","The \n Members Personal Voting\n Record covers the period 1973-1982 (93rd Congress\n First Session to the 97th Congress Second Session). Each\n Congress' voting record is divided into two sessions. A\n cumulative record for each Congress is also present.\n Included here are: roll numbers, dates, daily record\n page number, description, and members response. Each\n record contains a roll call subject guide and an index\n to the voting record. Although Butler began his\n congressional term with the 92nd Congress, there is no\n personal voting record for this time.","The \n Constituency Correspondence is\n almost exclusively from the period of the impeachment of\n Richard M. Nixon. The letters are divided into those\n favoring impeachment and those opposed to this action.\n There is also correspondence in reaction to the pardon\n of Nixon by President Gerald R. Ford.","Materials concerning the \n Confirmation of Gerald R. Ford as\n Vice President include: correspondence, memoranda,\n a briefing book, and transcriptions of testimony and\n proceedings during the hearings.","Ford medical and financial records are closed.","Congressman Butler sat on the House Judiciary\n committee that investigated and voted on the \n impeachment of President Richard M.\n Nixon . The impeachment materials are 15 cu. ft.\n in extent and include: narratives about the Watergate\n break-in and related events, and about the bombing of\n Cambodia; interview transcripts and recorded testimony\n of persons involved in Watergate activities; general\n impeachment inquiry materials(committee notebooks,\n personal notes, etc.); reports on White House\n Surveillance activities; Department of Justice/ITT\n Litigation; Milk Producers Cooperatives investigations;\n papers re the Judiciary Committee's \"Fragile Coalition\";\n general correspondence and memoranda; and printed\n materials. (See also, the series of constituent\n correspondence that precedes the impeachment materials.\n Butler kept an audio diary during the impeachment\n process, and these cassette recordings are included\n here, as are his written notes from this time. Also\n present are partial transcripts of an oral history\n project on the \"Fragile Coalition\" conducted in\n 1974.","Unrevised and unedited","The \n Printed Materials are primarily government documents\n from the period of the impeachment of\n Richard M. Nixon. Below is an enumeration of the titles present from donor gifts 1980-1983. Titles from additions, 1985-2015 are present in these boxes, but not yet listed below.","Book I: December 2, 1971 - June 17,\n 1972","Book I: June 19, 1972 - March 1, 1974 \n Book II: June 17, 1972 - February 9,\n 1973","Book III: June 20, 1972 - March 22,\n 1973","Book IV: March 22, 1973 - April 30,\n 1973","Appendix: Political Matters Memoranda \n I: Presidential Statements \n II: Papers in Criminal Cases \n III: Supplementary Documents \n IV: Political Matters memoranda","Executive Session Hearings Before the Select\n Committee on Presidential Campaign Activities\n of the United States Senate, November\n 13,14,15,16, December 4, 11, 1973.","There are three distinct audio recording projects documenting the days of the House\n Judiciary Committee Nixon Impeachment proceedings in July 1974. The first was part audio\n diary and part interviews involving Rep. Butler and reporter Wayne Woodlief. This project \n ran from May to early August 1974, with most of the recordings being from July. The recordings\n of most of these sessions -- some are missing; it is thought to be few, but there is no definitive \n way of knowing -- are in audio cassettes housed in box 55. There is a user set of CDs of these \n recordings in that box, and there are digital audio files of these tapes housed in Box on the Washington and Lee University \n network. There is also an incomplete set of transcripts for this project in box 54. Woodlief \n spoke of trying to produce a book at least partially based on these tapes. He sent such a proposal\n to Butler on July 10, 1975. The only printed product to emerge from these recordings, however, was \n an extensive article in the July 27, 1975 edition of The Roanoke Times , \n also published in the Virginian-Pilot of the same date.","The second recordings were much more limited in scope. On July 31, 1974, Butler sat down with\n Thomas Mooney, a Judiciary Committee attorney, to record on audiotape, their recollection of \n events as they unfolded on July 22-24. Their primary aim seems to have been capturing the \n drafting of the articles of impeachment. There are transcripts -- again just how complete cannot\n be determined, but not any recordings themselves.","The third project was the most ambitious. It was an attempt to record the Nixon Impeachment memories\n of all of the members of the so-called Fragile Coalition, those Democratic and Republican members of \n the House Judiciary Committee who held the swing votes on impeachment. They came together to draft \n articles of impeachment on which they could all vote \"yes\".","The organizers of this project were Thomas Mooney Sr., Stephen Lynch, and Father Donald Shea, longtime chair\n of the history department at St. Joseph College (Indiana). Mooney was a St. Joseph College alumnus and friend\n of Father Shea. The project was funded by St. Joseph College, and other private funds were solicited, as well.","The project had two parts. In the first part, the organizers interviewed members of the coalition \n individually in their Washington Congressional offices in June 1975. This was followed by a retreat on Hilton Head \n Island, SC in July 1975. Extensive aide memoire printed materials were gathered and given to each member of the coalition \n in advance. The recordings made there were in panel format only, with all of the Fragile Coalition members present.","There are no recordings from this project in the Butler papers. There are transcripts -- once again, there is no\n telling how complete -- from both the individual interviews and the Hilton Head panels. There is a third category of\n transcripts, those with interviewees' corrections handwritten on transcriptions. These corrected copies are from both the \n individual and group sessions. Some of these transcripts were sent to Butler and the Powell Archives by the University\n of Maine's Fogler Library which houses the papers of Fragile Coalition member William Cohen.","Unlike the printed materials that are found throughout the Impeachment series, these books and magazines\n are not government documents. There are copies of Time, Newsweek, and\n Life magazines from the time of the impeachment. There are also books and \n a college thesis giving retropective views on that period.","The \n Bankruptcy Materials are 18\n cu. ft. of papers documenting Butler's work in the\n drafting and passage of the legislation popularly known\n as the Bankruptcy Reform Act of 1978. Forms of materials\n present include: minutes of the Bankruptcy Commission,\n markup books on various versions of bankruptcy bills,\n memoranda, briefing materials, meetings transcripts,\n hearing transcripts, conference materials, Congressional\n Record Notebooks, audio tapes of markup sessions, and\n supplemental information on bankruptcy legislation with\n relevant testimony.","This material was arranged by Butler's office into\n three major components: 1)general materials in\n ring-binder notebooks to which Roman Numerals were\n assigned; 2)\"Supplemental Materials: ... \" filed in\n \"books\" numbered 1-45; and, 3) Ken Klee's research\n materials. The arrangement of these materials is not\n easily grasped, but the donor has provided a \"road map.\"\n A Butler document from around 1980 entitled \"The\n Narrative History of the Bankruptcy Act Revision\"\n provides a concise, informal legislative history of the\n Bankruptcy Reform Act of 1978 from Mr. Butler's\n perspective. It also discusses the creation and\n arrangement of these records and includes references to\n the Roman numeral numbering scheme employed by Butler's\n staff. This narrative is found in the first folder of\n the first box of bankruptcy materials(box 57). A second\n helpful narrative entitled \"The Establishment of the\n Commission\" states the reasons that impelled Congress to\n establish the Commission on Bankruptcy in June of 1970.\n This can be found in box 71 in the folder titled \"Mun.\n 5.\" Ken Klee's article on bankruptcy legislative (box\n 72) may also be of use in understanding events leading\n up to the 1978 act. The article is entitled, \"Congress\n and the Bankruptcy Act of 1976,\" and appeared in volume\n 61 of the \n American Bar Association\n Journal (October, 1975).","The \n general materials have been\n removed from the ring-binders, but the folders that now\n hold them are labeled with the Roman numeral\n corresponding to the binder in which they were formerly\n housed. Everything from 1971 research materials to the\n printed public law version of the 1978 Bankruptcy Reform\n Act can be found here. Books and pamphlets printed by\n the Government Office of Printing are found in Roman\n numeral sections I and III-IX. Included here are the\n Commission on Bankruptcy Laws Report, H.R. 10792, H.R.\n 16643, Hearings on H.R. 31 and H.R. 32, Hearings on S.\n 235, S. 236, H.R. 6, and oversized side-by-side\n comparisons of VI (H) and XIII of H.R. 31 and 32 and S.\n 2266 and H.R. 8200 (stored in box 75).","All of the \"Supplemental Legislation and Testimony\"\n is contained in 45 \"books\" and includes correspondence,\n notes and paste-ups of various sections of proposed\n versions of the bankruptcy bill. Section \"F,\" of XLIII\n \"Conference Materials\" (Box 61, Folder 9 from the\n general materials described above) contains the index to\n the 45 books. Much of the contents are reiterations of\n information from the \"Roman numeral\" notebooks arranged\n for quick reference. Testimony is arranged by bill\n section.","The Ken Klee's bankruptcy files were created while\n Klee served as associate counsel for the Subcommittee on\n Civil and Constitutional Rights of the House Committee\n on the Judiciary. They are 4 cu. ft. in extent and are\n divided into three sections: uniform bankruptcy file,\n municipal bankruptcy file (MUN), and bankruptcy act\n subject files. An index to Klee's files is contained in\n Section \"E\" of XLIII \"Conference Materials\" (Box 61,\n Folder 9). The Uniform Bankruptcy Files are arranged\n numerically beginning with the number 102 and contain\n statements, testimonies, correspondence, memoranda,\n drafts and other relevant materials regarding the\n proposed bankruptcy rules. The Municipal Bankruptcy File\n is arranged numerically. The files are designated MUN\n with a corresponding number. These files also contain\n drafts, testimonies, statements, memorandums and\n reports. Klee's Bankruptcy Subject Files are arranged\n alphabetically. Included here (under 'g') is general\n correspondence from 1973-1978.","#I - LII","(A) \n March 19-June 14, 1971 \n September 15,16-November 15, 1971 \n December 13-January 30,31, 1972 \n April 10-May 1, 1972 \n June 12-September 11-12, 1972 \n October 9-10, 1972 \n November 13-14, 1972 \n December 4-5, 1972","(B) \n December 4-5, 1972 \n January 15-16, 1973 \n February 22-24, 1973 \n March 15-17, 1973 \n April 12-14, 1973 \n June 7-12, 1973","(A) \n (B) \n (C)","(A) \n (B) \n (C)","(E) \n (F) \n (G) \n (H) -- Side-by-Side of H.R. 31 and H.R.\n 32 (2 copies) September 2, 1975. In oversize\n carton 49.","(A) \n (B) \n (C)","(A) \n (B)","(A)","(B) \n (C)","(A) \n (B)","Source 13 260;263 \n Source 14 322-323 \n Source 15 336 \n Source 20 412-415 \n Source 23A 502 \n Source 50 549;554-555 \n Source 30 587-588 \n Source 31 595-596 \n Source 33 612-613","Books for S. 2266 and H.R. 8200; H.R. 31 and H.R. 32\n ","Published by San Diego Urban League,\n Inc.","Enclosed copy of RRRA and RRRRA","Legal Services Corporation\n Act papers consist of one cu. ft. of materials\n concerning the authorization of funding for this entity\n for the fiscal years 1982-1984. Included here are: the\n authorization bill, itself; correspondence; \"discussion\n papers\"; press clippings; transcripts of testimony and\n hearing proceedings. (The one file of material about the\n re-authorization of the Department of Justice follows\n the Legal Services papers.)","The \n Voting Rights Act Extension series comprises Butler's legislative papers as a member of the House Judiciary Committee during the consideration of the extension of this Act.","The \n National Bankruptcy Review\n Commission papers are from Butler's service as a\n member of that body from 1995-1997. These 16 cu. ft. of\n materials include: correspondence; meeting minutes;\n memoranda and documents distributed to commission\n members; and the report of the commission and drafts of\n that report.","Box 91 includes audio cassette of\n \"discharge/reaffirmation hearing,\" 1997.","Bicentennial of American Revolution Flag; Bicentennial Medal, 1976; American College of Bankruptcy Commendation plaque, March 14, 1998.","Navy hat, brass buttons, insignia, pins and dog tags.","Contents: 24\"x36 inch photo of Butler, c. 1961; House Concurrent Resolution 672, July 1, 1976; Washington and Lee University Honorary Doctor of Laws Diploma, June 1, 1978; Birthday card from staff, June 2, 1973; National Small Business Association Certificate of Recognition, October 1978; certificate, Governor George Allen (Virgini) naming Butler to Governor's Advisory Council on Self-Determination and Federalism, November 14, 1994."],"userestrict_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThere are no restrictions.\u003c/p\u003e"],"userestrict_heading_ssm":["Use Restrictions"],"userestrict_tesim":["There are no restrictions."],"language_ssim":["English"],"total_component_count_is":567,"online_item_count_is":0,"component_level_isim":[0],"sort_isi":0,"timestamp":"2026-05-20T15:09:15.002Z"}]}},"label":"Breadcrumbs"}}},"links":{"self":"https://arvasarchive.org/catalog/vilxwl_vilxwl00003_c11_c04"}},{"id":"vilxwl_vilxwl00003_c16_c02_c01_c07","type":"Item","attributes":{"title":"105a: Statement of Judge Joe\n lee \n July 10, 1975","breadcrumbs":{"id":"https://arvasarchive.org/catalog/vilxwl_vilxwl00003_c16_c02_c01_c07#breadcrumbs","type":"document_value","attributes":{"value":{"ref_ssi":"vilxwl_vilxwl00003_c16_c02_c01_c07","ref_ssm":["vilxwl_vilxwl00003_c16_c02_c01_c07"],"id":"vilxwl_vilxwl00003_c16_c02_c01_c07","ead_ssi":"vilxwl_vilxwl00003","_root_":"vilxwl_vilxwl00003","_nest_parent_":"vilxwl_vilxwl00003_c16_c02_c01","parent_ssi":"vilxwl_vilxwl00003_c16_c02_c01","parent_ssim":["vilxwl_vilxwl00003","vilxwl_vilxwl00003_c16","vilxwl_vilxwl00003_c16_c02","vilxwl_vilxwl00003_c16_c02_c01"],"parent_ids_ssim":["vilxwl_vilxwl00003","vilxwl_vilxwl00003_c16","vilxwl_vilxwl00003_c16_c02","vilxwl_vilxwl00003_c16_c02_c01"],"parent_unittitles_ssm":["M. 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Caldwell Butler Papers \n 1945-2006","This collection\n consists of ca. 93 cubic feet of materials.","The Ford medical and financial records are closed.","Manley Caldwell Butler was born June 2, 1925 in Roanoke,\n Virginia, where he lived most of his life until his death on \n July 28, 2014. Following service in the Navy in World War II,\n he received his A.B. from the University of Richmond\n in 1948 and his J.D. from the University of Virginia Law\n School in 1950. Butler married June Nolde in 1950. This union\n produced four sons: Manley, Henry, James and Marshall.","Butler served as the City of Roanoke Representative in\n 1960-1961. In 1962 he was elected to the Virginia House of\n Delegates. He was elected Minority Leader in 1966, a position\n he held until 1972 when he was elected to the 92nd U.S.\n Congress from the 6th District of Virginia. Butler served the\n 6th District for a decade. While serving on the Judiciary\n Committee, Butler participated in the impeachment action\n against President Richard M. Nixon during the summer of 1974.\n In the aftermath of Nixon's resignation, Butler was involved\n in the confirmation hearings of Gerald R. Ford and Nelson\n Rockefeller to serve as President and Vice President\n respectively. Butler was a principal architect of the\n Bankruptcy Reform Act of 1978. He was also a member of the\n Committee on Government Operations. In retirement, Butler\n served on the National Bankruptcy Review Commission in the\n years 1995-1997. ","A partner in the firm of Woods, Rogers \u0026 Hazelgrove of\n Roanoke, Virginia from 1983-1998, Mr. Butler held memberships\n in the American Bar Association, the Virginia State Bar, the\n Roanoke Bar Association, the American College of Bankruptcy,\n the Raven Society, the Order of the Coif, and the Board of\n Directors of Dominion Bank Shares Corp of Roanoke. He was also\n a Fellow of the American Bar Foundation and a Director of the\n American Bankruptcy Institute. His fraternal organization\n affiliations include Phi Beta Kappa, Tau Kappa Alpha, Omicron\n Delta Kappa and Phi Gamma Delta.","The \n M(anley)Caldwell Butler\n Papers consist of approximately 96 cu. ft. of materials from 1925-2006. Most of the papers cover the periods 1972-1982 and 1995-1997. The papers are divided\n into seventeen series: June Nolde Butler papers; correspondence and subject files; military service; appointment calendars; campaigns; scrapbooks, clippings and photos; speeches; newsletters, press\n releases, radio reports and weekly reports; voting record;\n constituency correspondence; confirmation of Gerald R. Ford as\n Vice President; impeachment of President\n Richard M. Nixon; Bankruptcy Reform Act of 1978;\n Legal Services Corporation; re-authorization of the Department of Justice\n for the Fiscal Year 1982; Voting Rights Act extension; the National Bankruptcy Review\n Commission, 1995-1997; and Artifacts, 1944-1998. With the exceptions of the first six series and National\n Bankruptcy Review Commission materials, these papers were\n generated during Butler's terms as U. S. Representative for\n the 6th Congressional District of Virginia, 1972 -1982 (93rd\n Congress - 97th Congress).","The refinement levels of processing are mixed. The gradual donation of materials over a period \n of 40 years is chiefly the cause. The Nixon Impeachment and Bankruptcy Reform Act of 1978 materials \n are mostly described down to the folder level. The National Bankruptcy Review Commission materials arrived largely self-arranged. \n Most other areas of the colleciton, however, are largely unprocessed beyond being sorted into tentative series.","This is particularly true of additions made in 2018 through the estate of Butler's son, James. This has resulted in a temporary \n box renumbering in boxes 1-7. There is also a box of artifacts added at the end of all of the papers.","Biographical materials,general correspondence, correspondence with parents and siblings,Letters, \n invitations, menus, calendars, subject files, photos, clippings, artifacts, photos scrapbook (1933-1950)\n and correspondence (1947-1950) with her future husband, M Caldwell Butler","Nixon Impeachment historical studies; Correspondence re publication of book, Stonewall Jim;\n GOP Gala, 2001; certificates of award and merit; records of naval service; education records \n and related materials.","Subjects include: United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit; \n National Bankruptcy Review Commission; Sarah Butler Memorial; Sam Garrison Bar Discipline; \n Bankruptcy Law; Watergate/Impeachment; Susan Aheron; Butler for Governor; Newspaper Items; \n Legal Services Corporation; The Miller Center; and Virginia Cares.","Correspondence, subject files, surveys, election returns, and memorabilia","In addition to campaign and general coverage, these scrapbooks treat: editorials mentioning Butler; economic conferences; farm conferences; HUD and FMHA conferences; Lynchburg Weather Station; minority business conferences.","Most of these appear to have been kept by his Congressional Office Staff. They document his day-to-day official activities.","These also document his official activities.","The recordings range from appearances on Face the Nation to local forums.","There is a variety of publications on a variety of mainly political topics. forms of materials include trade books, government documents, brochures, and magazinies. ","Speeches (1964-2001; bulk 1973-1982) are also\n arranged chronologically. The audience, occasion, and\n location are usually noted. From January 1976 onward, a\n topical index is present in addition to the\n chronological listings that are available for all of the\n years. Some nine speeches are missing from the original\n inventory, while others not on that listing were found\n during processing and added to the finding aid.","Newsletters (1973-1981)were\n generated by Congressman Butler's staff to keep citizens\n of the Sixth District of Virginia informed on issues\n before the House, and on the activities of his office.\n The newsletters(N:) are arranged chronologically with an\n alphabetical reference index that has been updated\n through October 1, 1982. This index includes references\n to Radio Reports(RR#) and Weekly Reports(WR#). News\n (Press) Releases (1972-1982), Radio Reports (1973-1978),\n and Weekly Reports (1979-1982) are arranged\n chronologically and their indices provide brief\n summaries of the topics discussed.","The \n Members Personal Voting\n Record covers the period 1973-1982 (93rd Congress\n First Session to the 97th Congress Second Session). Each\n Congress' voting record is divided into two sessions. A\n cumulative record for each Congress is also present.\n Included here are: roll numbers, dates, daily record\n page number, description, and members response. Each\n record contains a roll call subject guide and an index\n to the voting record. Although Butler began his\n congressional term with the 92nd Congress, there is no\n personal voting record for this time.","The \n Constituency Correspondence is\n almost exclusively from the period of the impeachment of\n Richard M. Nixon. The letters are divided into those\n favoring impeachment and those opposed to this action.\n There is also correspondence in reaction to the pardon\n of Nixon by President Gerald R. Ford.","Materials concerning the \n Confirmation of Gerald R. Ford as\n Vice President include: correspondence, memoranda,\n a briefing book, and transcriptions of testimony and\n proceedings during the hearings.","Ford medical and financial records are closed.","Congressman Butler sat on the House Judiciary\n committee that investigated and voted on the \n impeachment of President Richard M.\n Nixon . The impeachment materials are 15 cu. ft.\n in extent and include: narratives about the Watergate\n break-in and related events, and about the bombing of\n Cambodia; interview transcripts and recorded testimony\n of persons involved in Watergate activities; general\n impeachment inquiry materials(committee notebooks,\n personal notes, etc.); reports on White House\n Surveillance activities; Department of Justice/ITT\n Litigation; Milk Producers Cooperatives investigations;\n papers re the Judiciary Committee's \"Fragile Coalition\";\n general correspondence and memoranda; and printed\n materials. (See also, the series of constituent\n correspondence that precedes the impeachment materials.\n Butler kept an audio diary during the impeachment\n process, and these cassette recordings are included\n here, as are his written notes from this time. Also\n present are partial transcripts of an oral history\n project on the \"Fragile Coalition\" conducted in\n 1974.","Unrevised and unedited","The \n Printed Materials are primarily government documents\n from the period of the impeachment of\n Richard M. Nixon. Below is an enumeration of the titles present from donor gifts 1980-1983. Titles from additions, 1985-2015 are present in these boxes, but not yet listed below.","Book I: December 2, 1971 - June 17,\n 1972","Book I: June 19, 1972 - March 1, 1974 \n Book II: June 17, 1972 - February 9,\n 1973","Book III: June 20, 1972 - March 22,\n 1973","Book IV: March 22, 1973 - April 30,\n 1973","Appendix: Political Matters Memoranda \n I: Presidential Statements \n II: Papers in Criminal Cases \n III: Supplementary Documents \n IV: Political Matters memoranda","Executive Session Hearings Before the Select\n Committee on Presidential Campaign Activities\n of the United States Senate, November\n 13,14,15,16, December 4, 11, 1973.","There are three distinct audio recording projects documenting the days of the House\n Judiciary Committee Nixon Impeachment proceedings in July 1974. The first was part audio\n diary and part interviews involving Rep. Butler and reporter Wayne Woodlief. This project \n ran from May to early August 1974, with most of the recordings being from July. The recordings\n of most of these sessions -- some are missing; it is thought to be few, but there is no definitive \n way of knowing -- are in audio cassettes housed in box 55. There is a user set of CDs of these \n recordings in that box, and there are digital audio files of these tapes housed in Box on the Washington and Lee University \n network. There is also an incomplete set of transcripts for this project in box 54. Woodlief \n spoke of trying to produce a book at least partially based on these tapes. He sent such a proposal\n to Butler on July 10, 1975. The only printed product to emerge from these recordings, however, was \n an extensive article in the July 27, 1975 edition of The Roanoke Times , \n also published in the Virginian-Pilot of the same date.","The second recordings were much more limited in scope. On July 31, 1974, Butler sat down with\n Thomas Mooney, a Judiciary Committee attorney, to record on audiotape, their recollection of \n events as they unfolded on July 22-24. Their primary aim seems to have been capturing the \n drafting of the articles of impeachment. There are transcripts -- again just how complete cannot\n be determined, but not any recordings themselves.","The third project was the most ambitious. It was an attempt to record the Nixon Impeachment memories\n of all of the members of the so-called Fragile Coalition, those Democratic and Republican members of \n the House Judiciary Committee who held the swing votes on impeachment. They came together to draft \n articles of impeachment on which they could all vote \"yes\".","The organizers of this project were Thomas Mooney Sr., Stephen Lynch, and Father Donald Shea, longtime chair\n of the history department at St. Joseph College (Indiana). Mooney was a St. Joseph College alumnus and friend\n of Father Shea. The project was funded by St. Joseph College, and other private funds were solicited, as well.","The project had two parts. In the first part, the organizers interviewed members of the coalition \n individually in their Washington Congressional offices in June 1975. This was followed by a retreat on Hilton Head \n Island, SC in July 1975. Extensive aide memoire printed materials were gathered and given to each member of the coalition \n in advance. The recordings made there were in panel format only, with all of the Fragile Coalition members present.","There are no recordings from this project in the Butler papers. There are transcripts -- once again, there is no\n telling how complete -- from both the individual interviews and the Hilton Head panels. There is a third category of\n transcripts, those with interviewees' corrections handwritten on transcriptions. These corrected copies are from both the \n individual and group sessions. Some of these transcripts were sent to Butler and the Powell Archives by the University\n of Maine's Fogler Library which houses the papers of Fragile Coalition member William Cohen.","Unlike the printed materials that are found throughout the Impeachment series, these books and magazines\n are not government documents. There are copies of Time, Newsweek, and\n Life magazines from the time of the impeachment. There are also books and \n a college thesis giving retropective views on that period.","The \n Bankruptcy Materials are 18\n cu. ft. of papers documenting Butler's work in the\n drafting and passage of the legislation popularly known\n as the Bankruptcy Reform Act of 1978. Forms of materials\n present include: minutes of the Bankruptcy Commission,\n markup books on various versions of bankruptcy bills,\n memoranda, briefing materials, meetings transcripts,\n hearing transcripts, conference materials, Congressional\n Record Notebooks, audio tapes of markup sessions, and\n supplemental information on bankruptcy legislation with\n relevant testimony.","This material was arranged by Butler's office into\n three major components: 1)general materials in\n ring-binder notebooks to which Roman Numerals were\n assigned; 2)\"Supplemental Materials: ... \" filed in\n \"books\" numbered 1-45; and, 3) Ken Klee's research\n materials. The arrangement of these materials is not\n easily grasped, but the donor has provided a \"road map.\"\n A Butler document from around 1980 entitled \"The\n Narrative History of the Bankruptcy Act Revision\"\n provides a concise, informal legislative history of the\n Bankruptcy Reform Act of 1978 from Mr. Butler's\n perspective. It also discusses the creation and\n arrangement of these records and includes references to\n the Roman numeral numbering scheme employed by Butler's\n staff. This narrative is found in the first folder of\n the first box of bankruptcy materials(box 57). A second\n helpful narrative entitled \"The Establishment of the\n Commission\" states the reasons that impelled Congress to\n establish the Commission on Bankruptcy in June of 1970.\n This can be found in box 71 in the folder titled \"Mun.\n 5.\" Ken Klee's article on bankruptcy legislative (box\n 72) may also be of use in understanding events leading\n up to the 1978 act. The article is entitled, \"Congress\n and the Bankruptcy Act of 1976,\" and appeared in volume\n 61 of the \n American Bar Association\n Journal (October, 1975).","The \n general materials have been\n removed from the ring-binders, but the folders that now\n hold them are labeled with the Roman numeral\n corresponding to the binder in which they were formerly\n housed. Everything from 1971 research materials to the\n printed public law version of the 1978 Bankruptcy Reform\n Act can be found here. Books and pamphlets printed by\n the Government Office of Printing are found in Roman\n numeral sections I and III-IX. Included here are the\n Commission on Bankruptcy Laws Report, H.R. 10792, H.R.\n 16643, Hearings on H.R. 31 and H.R. 32, Hearings on S.\n 235, S. 236, H.R. 6, and oversized side-by-side\n comparisons of VI (H) and XIII of H.R. 31 and 32 and S.\n 2266 and H.R. 8200 (stored in box 75).","All of the \"Supplemental Legislation and Testimony\"\n is contained in 45 \"books\" and includes correspondence,\n notes and paste-ups of various sections of proposed\n versions of the bankruptcy bill. Section \"F,\" of XLIII\n \"Conference Materials\" (Box 61, Folder 9 from the\n general materials described above) contains the index to\n the 45 books. Much of the contents are reiterations of\n information from the \"Roman numeral\" notebooks arranged\n for quick reference. Testimony is arranged by bill\n section.","The Ken Klee's bankruptcy files were created while\n Klee served as associate counsel for the Subcommittee on\n Civil and Constitutional Rights of the House Committee\n on the Judiciary. They are 4 cu. ft. in extent and are\n divided into three sections: uniform bankruptcy file,\n municipal bankruptcy file (MUN), and bankruptcy act\n subject files. An index to Klee's files is contained in\n Section \"E\" of XLIII \"Conference Materials\" (Box 61,\n Folder 9). The Uniform Bankruptcy Files are arranged\n numerically beginning with the number 102 and contain\n statements, testimonies, correspondence, memoranda,\n drafts and other relevant materials regarding the\n proposed bankruptcy rules. The Municipal Bankruptcy File\n is arranged numerically. The files are designated MUN\n with a corresponding number. These files also contain\n drafts, testimonies, statements, memorandums and\n reports. Klee's Bankruptcy Subject Files are arranged\n alphabetically. Included here (under 'g') is general\n correspondence from 1973-1978.","#I - LII","(A) \n March 19-June 14, 1971 \n September 15,16-November 15, 1971 \n December 13-January 30,31, 1972 \n April 10-May 1, 1972 \n June 12-September 11-12, 1972 \n October 9-10, 1972 \n November 13-14, 1972 \n December 4-5, 1972","(B) \n December 4-5, 1972 \n January 15-16, 1973 \n February 22-24, 1973 \n March 15-17, 1973 \n April 12-14, 1973 \n June 7-12, 1973","(A) \n (B) \n (C)","(A) \n (B) \n (C)","(E) \n (F) \n (G) \n (H) -- Side-by-Side of H.R. 31 and H.R.\n 32 (2 copies) September 2, 1975. In oversize\n carton 49.","(A) \n (B) \n (C)","(A) \n (B)","(A)","(B) \n (C)","(A) \n (B)","Source 13 260;263 \n Source 14 322-323 \n Source 15 336 \n Source 20 412-415 \n Source 23A 502 \n Source 50 549;554-555 \n Source 30 587-588 \n Source 31 595-596 \n Source 33 612-613","Books for S. 2266 and H.R. 8200; H.R. 31 and H.R. 32\n ","Published by San Diego Urban League,\n Inc.","Enclosed copy of RRRA and RRRRA","Legal Services Corporation\n Act papers consist of one cu. ft. of materials\n concerning the authorization of funding for this entity\n for the fiscal years 1982-1984. Included here are: the\n authorization bill, itself; correspondence; \"discussion\n papers\"; press clippings; transcripts of testimony and\n hearing proceedings. (The one file of material about the\n re-authorization of the Department of Justice follows\n the Legal Services papers.)","The \n Voting Rights Act Extension series comprises Butler's legislative papers as a member of the House Judiciary Committee during the consideration of the extension of this Act.","The \n National Bankruptcy Review\n Commission papers are from Butler's service as a\n member of that body from 1995-1997. These 16 cu. ft. of\n materials include: correspondence; meeting minutes;\n memoranda and documents distributed to commission\n members; and the report of the commission and drafts of\n that report.","Box 91 includes audio cassette of\n \"discharge/reaffirmation hearing,\" 1997.","Bicentennial of American Revolution Flag; Bicentennial Medal, 1976; American College of Bankruptcy Commendation plaque, March 14, 1998.","Navy hat, brass buttons, insignia, pins and dog tags.","Contents: 24\"x36 inch photo of Butler, c. 1961; House Concurrent Resolution 672, July 1, 1976; Washington and Lee University Honorary Doctor of Laws Diploma, June 1, 1978; Birthday card from staff, June 2, 1973; National Small Business Association Certificate of Recognition, October 1978; certificate, Governor George Allen (Virgini) naming Butler to Governor's Advisory Council on Self-Determination and Federalism, November 14, 1994.","There are no restrictions.","English"],"unitid_tesim":["004"],"normalized_title_ssm":["M. 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Following service in the Navy in World War II,\n he received his A.B. from the University of Richmond\n in 1948 and his J.D. from the University of Virginia Law\n School in 1950. Butler married June Nolde in 1950. This union\n produced four sons: Manley, Henry, James and Marshall.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eButler served as the City of Roanoke Representative in\n 1960-1961. In 1962 he was elected to the Virginia House of\n Delegates. He was elected Minority Leader in 1966, a position\n he held until 1972 when he was elected to the 92nd U.S.\n Congress from the 6th District of Virginia. Butler served the\n 6th District for a decade. While serving on the Judiciary\n Committee, Butler participated in the impeachment action\n against President Richard M. Nixon during the summer of 1974.\n In the aftermath of Nixon's resignation, Butler was involved\n in the confirmation hearings of Gerald R. Ford and Nelson\n Rockefeller to serve as President and Vice President\n respectively. Butler was a principal architect of the\n Bankruptcy Reform Act of 1978. He was also a member of the\n Committee on Government Operations. In retirement, Butler\n served on the National Bankruptcy Review Commission in the\n years 1995-1997. \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA partner in the firm of Woods, Rogers \u0026amp; Hazelgrove of\n Roanoke, Virginia from 1983-1998, Mr. Butler held memberships\n in the American Bar Association, the Virginia State Bar, the\n Roanoke Bar Association, the American College of Bankruptcy,\n the Raven Society, the Order of the Coif, and the Board of\n Directors of Dominion Bank Shares Corp of Roanoke. He was also\n a Fellow of the American Bar Foundation and a Director of the\n American Bankruptcy Institute. His fraternal organization\n affiliations include Phi Beta Kappa, Tau Kappa Alpha, Omicron\n Delta Kappa and Phi Gamma Delta.\u003c/p\u003e"],"bioghist_heading_ssm":["Biographical/Historical Information"],"bioghist_tesim":["Manley Caldwell Butler was born June 2, 1925 in Roanoke,\n Virginia, where he lived most of his life until his death on \n July 28, 2014. Following service in the Navy in World War II,\n he received his A.B. from the University of Richmond\n in 1948 and his J.D. from the University of Virginia Law\n School in 1950. Butler married June Nolde in 1950. This union\n produced four sons: Manley, Henry, James and Marshall.","Butler served as the City of Roanoke Representative in\n 1960-1961. In 1962 he was elected to the Virginia House of\n Delegates. He was elected Minority Leader in 1966, a position\n he held until 1972 when he was elected to the 92nd U.S.\n Congress from the 6th District of Virginia. Butler served the\n 6th District for a decade. While serving on the Judiciary\n Committee, Butler participated in the impeachment action\n against President Richard M. Nixon during the summer of 1974.\n In the aftermath of Nixon's resignation, Butler was involved\n in the confirmation hearings of Gerald R. Ford and Nelson\n Rockefeller to serve as President and Vice President\n respectively. Butler was a principal architect of the\n Bankruptcy Reform Act of 1978. He was also a member of the\n Committee on Government Operations. In retirement, Butler\n served on the National Bankruptcy Review Commission in the\n years 1995-1997. ","A partner in the firm of Woods, Rogers \u0026 Hazelgrove of\n Roanoke, Virginia from 1983-1998, Mr. Butler held memberships\n in the American Bar Association, the Virginia State Bar, the\n Roanoke Bar Association, the American College of Bankruptcy,\n the Raven Society, the Order of the Coif, and the Board of\n Directors of Dominion Bank Shares Corp of Roanoke. He was also\n a Fellow of the American Bar Foundation and a Director of the\n American Bankruptcy Institute. His fraternal organization\n affiliations include Phi Beta Kappa, Tau Kappa Alpha, Omicron\n Delta Kappa and Phi Gamma Delta."],"prefercite_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eM. Caldwell Butler Papers, 1945-2006, Ms 004,\n Lewis F. Powell, Jr. Archives, Washington and Lee\n University School of Law, Lexington, VA\u003c/p\u003e"],"prefercite_tesim":["M. Caldwell Butler Papers, 1945-2006, Ms 004,\n Lewis F. Powell, Jr. Archives, Washington and Lee\n University School of Law, Lexington, VA"],"scopecontent_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThe \n M(anley)Caldwell Butler\n Papers consist of approximately 96 cu. ft. of materials from 1925-2006. Most of the papers cover the periods 1972-1982 and 1995-1997. The papers are divided\n into seventeen series: June Nolde Butler papers; correspondence and subject files; military service; appointment calendars; campaigns; scrapbooks, clippings and photos; speeches; newsletters, press\n releases, radio reports and weekly reports; voting record;\n constituency correspondence; confirmation of Gerald R. Ford as\n Vice President; impeachment of President\n Richard M. Nixon; Bankruptcy Reform Act of 1978;\n Legal Services Corporation; re-authorization of the Department of Justice\n for the Fiscal Year 1982; Voting Rights Act extension; the National Bankruptcy Review\n Commission, 1995-1997; and Artifacts, 1944-1998. With the exceptions of the first six series and National\n Bankruptcy Review Commission materials, these papers were\n generated during Butler's terms as U. S. Representative for\n the 6th Congressional District of Virginia, 1972 -1982 (93rd\n Congress - 97th Congress).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe refinement levels of processing are mixed. The gradual donation of materials over a period \n of 40 years is chiefly the cause. The Nixon Impeachment and Bankruptcy Reform Act of 1978 materials \n are mostly described down to the folder level. The National Bankruptcy Review Commission materials arrived largely self-arranged. \n Most other areas of the colleciton, however, are largely unprocessed beyond being sorted into tentative series.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis is particularly true of additions made in 2018 through the estate of Butler's son, James. This has resulted in a temporary \n box renumbering in boxes 1-7. There is also a box of artifacts added at the end of all of the papers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBiographical materials,general correspondence, correspondence with parents and siblings,Letters, \n invitations, menus, calendars, subject files, photos, clippings, artifacts, photos scrapbook (1933-1950)\n and correspondence (1947-1950) with her future husband, M Caldwell Butler\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNixon Impeachment historical studies; Correspondence re publication of book, Stonewall Jim;\n GOP Gala, 2001; certificates of award and merit; records of naval service; education records \n and related materials.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSubjects include: United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit; \n National Bankruptcy Review Commission; Sarah Butler Memorial; Sam Garrison Bar Discipline; \n Bankruptcy Law; Watergate/Impeachment; Susan Aheron; Butler for Governor; Newspaper Items; \n Legal Services Corporation; The Miller Center; and Virginia Cares.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence, subject files, surveys, election returns, and memorabilia\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIn addition to campaign and general coverage, these scrapbooks treat: editorials mentioning Butler; economic conferences; farm conferences; HUD and FMHA conferences; Lynchburg Weather Station; minority business conferences.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMost of these appear to have been kept by his Congressional Office Staff. They document his day-to-day official activities.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThese also document his official activities.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe recordings range from appearances on \u003ctitle render=\"italic\"\u003eFace the Nation \u003c/title\u003e to local forums.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere is a variety of publications on a variety of mainly political topics. forms of materials include trade books, government documents, brochures, and magazinies. \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eSpeeches\u003c/emph\u003e(1964-2001; bulk 1973-1982) are also\n arranged chronologically. The audience, occasion, and\n location are usually noted. From January 1976 onward, a\n topical index is present in addition to the\n chronological listings that are available for all of the\n years. Some nine speeches are missing from the original\n inventory, while others not on that listing were found\n during processing and added to the finding aid.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eNewsletters\u003c/emph\u003e(1973-1981)were\n generated by Congressman Butler's staff to keep citizens\n of the Sixth District of Virginia informed on issues\n before the House, and on the activities of his office.\n The newsletters(N:) are arranged chronologically with an\n alphabetical reference index that has been updated\n through October 1, 1982. This index includes references\n to Radio Reports(RR#) and Weekly Reports(WR#). News\n (Press) Releases (1972-1982), Radio Reports (1973-1978),\n and Weekly Reports (1979-1982) are arranged\n chronologically and their indices provide brief\n summaries of the topics discussed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe \n \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eMembers Personal Voting\n Record\u003c/emph\u003ecovers the period 1973-1982 (93rd Congress\n First Session to the 97th Congress Second Session). Each\n Congress' voting record is divided into two sessions. A\n cumulative record for each Congress is also present.\n Included here are: roll numbers, dates, daily record\n page number, description, and members response. Each\n record contains a roll call subject guide and an index\n to the voting record. Although Butler began his\n congressional term with the 92nd Congress, there is no\n personal voting record for this time.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe \n \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eConstituency Correspondence\u003c/emph\u003eis\n almost exclusively from the period of the impeachment of\n Richard M. Nixon. The letters are divided into those\n favoring impeachment and those opposed to this action.\n There is also correspondence in reaction to the pardon\n of Nixon by President Gerald R. Ford.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMaterials concerning the \n \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eConfirmation of Gerald R. Ford as\n Vice President\u003c/emph\u003einclude: correspondence, memoranda,\n a briefing book, and transcriptions of testimony and\n proceedings during the hearings.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFord medical and financial records are closed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCongressman Butler sat on the House Judiciary\n committee that investigated and voted on the \n \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eimpeachment of President Richard M.\n Nixon\u003c/emph\u003e. The impeachment materials are 15 cu. ft.\n in extent and include: narratives about the Watergate\n break-in and related events, and about the bombing of\n Cambodia; interview transcripts and recorded testimony\n of persons involved in Watergate activities; general\n impeachment inquiry materials(committee notebooks,\n personal notes, etc.); reports on White House\n Surveillance activities; Department of Justice/ITT\n Litigation; Milk Producers Cooperatives investigations;\n papers re the Judiciary Committee's \"Fragile Coalition\";\n general correspondence and memoranda; and printed\n materials. (See also, the series of constituent\n correspondence that precedes the impeachment materials.\n Butler kept an audio diary during the impeachment\n process, and these cassette recordings are included\n here, as are his written notes from this time. Also\n present are partial transcripts of an oral history\n project on the \"Fragile Coalition\" conducted in\n 1974.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eUnrevised and unedited\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe \n \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003ePrinted Materials\u003c/emph\u003eare primarily government documents\n from the period of the impeachment of\n Richard M. Nixon. Below is an enumeration of the titles present from donor gifts 1980-1983. Titles from additions, 1985-2015 are present in these boxes, but not yet listed below.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBook I: December 2, 1971 - June 17,\n 1972\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBook I: June 19, 1972 - March 1, 1974 \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eBook II: June 17, 1972 - February 9,\n 1973\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBook III: June 20, 1972 - March 22,\n 1973\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBook IV: March 22, 1973 - April 30,\n 1973\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAppendix: Political Matters Memoranda \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eI: Presidential Statements \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eII: Papers in Criminal Cases \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eIII: Supplementary Documents \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eIV: Political Matters memoranda\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eExecutive Session Hearings Before the Select\n Committee on Presidential Campaign Activities\n of the United States Senate, November\n 13,14,15,16, December 4, 11, 1973.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere are three distinct audio recording projects documenting the days of the House\n Judiciary Committee Nixon Impeachment proceedings in July 1974. The first was part audio\n diary and part interviews involving Rep. Butler and reporter Wayne Woodlief. This project \n ran from May to early August 1974, with most of the recordings being from July. The recordings\n of most of these sessions -- some are missing; it is thought to be few, but there is no definitive \n way of knowing -- are in audio cassettes housed in box 55. There is a user set of CDs of these \n recordings in that box, and there are digital audio files of these tapes housed in Box on the Washington and Lee University \n network. There is also an incomplete set of transcripts for this project in box 54. Woodlief \n spoke of trying to produce a book at least partially based on these tapes. He sent such a proposal\n to Butler on July 10, 1975. The only printed product to emerge from these recordings, however, was \n an extensive article in the July 27, 1975 edition of The \u003ctitle render=\"italic\"\u003eRoanoke Times\u003c/title\u003e, \n also published in the \u003ctitle render=\"italic\"\u003eVirginian-Pilot\u003c/title\u003e of the same date.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe second recordings were much more limited in scope. On July 31, 1974, Butler sat down with\n Thomas Mooney, a Judiciary Committee attorney, to record on audiotape, their recollection of \n events as they unfolded on July 22-24. Their primary aim seems to have been capturing the \n drafting of the articles of impeachment. There are transcripts -- again just how complete cannot\n be determined, but not any recordings themselves.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe third project was the most ambitious. It was an attempt to record the Nixon Impeachment memories\n of all of the members of the so-called Fragile Coalition, those Democratic and Republican members of \n the House Judiciary Committee who held the swing votes on impeachment. They came together to draft \n articles of impeachment on which they could all vote \"yes\".\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe organizers of this project were Thomas Mooney Sr., Stephen Lynch, and Father Donald Shea, longtime chair\n of the history department at St. Joseph College (Indiana). Mooney was a St. Joseph College alumnus and friend\n of Father Shea. The project was funded by St. Joseph College, and other private funds were solicited, as well.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe project had two parts. In the first part, the organizers interviewed members of the coalition \n individually in their Washington Congressional offices in June 1975. This was followed by a retreat on Hilton Head \n Island, SC in July 1975. Extensive aide memoire printed materials were gathered and given to each member of the coalition \n in advance. The recordings made there were in panel format only, with all of the Fragile Coalition members present.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere are no recordings from this project in the Butler papers. There are transcripts -- once again, there is no\n telling how complete -- from both the individual interviews and the Hilton Head panels. There is a third category of\n transcripts, those with interviewees' corrections handwritten on transcriptions. These corrected copies are from both the \n individual and group sessions. Some of these transcripts were sent to Butler and the Powell Archives by the University\n of Maine's Fogler Library which houses the papers of Fragile Coalition member William Cohen.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eUnlike the printed materials that are found throughout the Impeachment series, these books and magazines\n are not government documents. There are copies of \u003ctitle render=\"italic\"\u003eTime, Newsweek,\u003c/title\u003e and\n \u003ctitle render=\"italic\"\u003eLife\u003c/title\u003e magazines from the time of the impeachment. There are also books and \n a college thesis giving retropective views on that period.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe \n \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eBankruptcy Materials\u003c/emph\u003eare 18\n cu. ft. of papers documenting Butler's work in the\n drafting and passage of the legislation popularly known\n as the Bankruptcy Reform Act of 1978. Forms of materials\n present include: minutes of the Bankruptcy Commission,\n markup books on various versions of bankruptcy bills,\n memoranda, briefing materials, meetings transcripts,\n hearing transcripts, conference materials, Congressional\n Record Notebooks, audio tapes of markup sessions, and\n supplemental information on bankruptcy legislation with\n relevant testimony.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis material was arranged by Butler's office into\n three major components: 1)general materials in\n ring-binder notebooks to which Roman Numerals were\n assigned; 2)\"Supplemental Materials: ... \" filed in\n \"books\" numbered 1-45; and, 3) Ken Klee's research\n materials. The arrangement of these materials is not\n easily grasped, but the donor has provided a \"road map.\"\n A Butler document from around 1980 entitled \"The\n Narrative History of the Bankruptcy Act Revision\"\n provides a concise, informal legislative history of the\n Bankruptcy Reform Act of 1978 from Mr. Butler's\n perspective. It also discusses the creation and\n arrangement of these records and includes references to\n the Roman numeral numbering scheme employed by Butler's\n staff. This narrative is found in the first folder of\n the first box of bankruptcy materials(box 57). A second\n helpful narrative entitled \"The Establishment of the\n Commission\" states the reasons that impelled Congress to\n establish the Commission on Bankruptcy in June of 1970.\n This can be found in box 71 in the folder titled \"Mun.\n 5.\" Ken Klee's article on bankruptcy legislative (box\n 72) may also be of use in understanding events leading\n up to the 1978 act. The article is entitled, \"Congress\n and the Bankruptcy Act of 1976,\" and appeared in volume\n 61 of the \n \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eAmerican Bar Association\n Journal\u003c/title\u003e(October, 1975).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe \n \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003egeneral materials\u003c/emph\u003ehave been\n removed from the ring-binders, but the folders that now\n hold them are labeled with the Roman numeral\n corresponding to the binder in which they were formerly\n housed. Everything from 1971 research materials to the\n printed public law version of the 1978 Bankruptcy Reform\n Act can be found here. Books and pamphlets printed by\n the Government Office of Printing are found in Roman\n numeral sections I and III-IX. Included here are the\n Commission on Bankruptcy Laws Report, H.R. 10792, H.R.\n 16643, Hearings on H.R. 31 and H.R. 32, Hearings on S.\n 235, S. 236, H.R. 6, and oversized side-by-side\n comparisons of VI (H) and XIII of H.R. 31 and 32 and S.\n 2266 and H.R. 8200 (stored in box 75).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAll of the \"Supplemental Legislation and Testimony\"\n is contained in 45 \"books\" and includes correspondence,\n notes and paste-ups of various sections of proposed\n versions of the bankruptcy bill. Section \"F,\" of XLIII\n \"Conference Materials\" (Box 61, Folder 9 from the\n general materials described above) contains the index to\n the 45 books. Much of the contents are reiterations of\n information from the \"Roman numeral\" notebooks arranged\n for quick reference. Testimony is arranged by bill\n section.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe Ken Klee's bankruptcy files were created while\n Klee served as associate counsel for the Subcommittee on\n Civil and Constitutional Rights of the House Committee\n on the Judiciary. They are 4 cu. ft. in extent and are\n divided into three sections: uniform bankruptcy file,\n municipal bankruptcy file (MUN), and bankruptcy act\n subject files. An index to Klee's files is contained in\n Section \"E\" of XLIII \"Conference Materials\" (Box 61,\n Folder 9). The Uniform Bankruptcy Files are arranged\n numerically beginning with the number 102 and contain\n statements, testimonies, correspondence, memoranda,\n drafts and other relevant materials regarding the\n proposed bankruptcy rules. The Municipal Bankruptcy File\n is arranged numerically. The files are designated MUN\n with a corresponding number. These files also contain\n drafts, testimonies, statements, memorandums and\n reports. Klee's Bankruptcy Subject Files are arranged\n alphabetically. Included here (under 'g') is general\n correspondence from 1973-1978.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e#I - LII\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e(A) \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eMarch 19-June 14, 1971 \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eSeptember 15,16-November 15, 1971 \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eDecember 13-January 30,31, 1972 \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eApril 10-May 1, 1972 \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eJune 12-September 11-12, 1972 \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eOctober 9-10, 1972 \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eNovember 13-14, 1972 \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eDecember 4-5, 1972\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e(B) \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eDecember 4-5, 1972 \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eJanuary 15-16, 1973 \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eFebruary 22-24, 1973 \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eMarch 15-17, 1973 \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eApril 12-14, 1973 \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eJune 7-12, 1973\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e(A) \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e(B) \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e(C)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e(A) \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e(B) \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e(C)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e(E) \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e(F) \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e(G) \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e(H) -- Side-by-Side of H.R. 31 and H.R.\n 32 (2 copies) September 2, 1975. In oversize\n carton 49.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e(A) \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e(B) \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e(C)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e(A) \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e(B)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e(A)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e(B) \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e(C)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e(A) \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e(B)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSource 13 260;263 \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eSource 14 322-323 \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eSource 15 336 \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eSource 20 412-415 \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eSource 23A 502 \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eSource 50 549;554-555 \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eSource 30 587-588 \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eSource 31 595-596 \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eSource 33 612-613\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBooks for S. 2266 and H.R. 8200; H.R. 31 and H.R. 32\n \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePublished by San Diego Urban League,\n Inc.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEnclosed copy of RRRA and RRRRA\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eLegal Services Corporation\n Act\u003c/emph\u003epapers consist of one cu. ft. of materials\n concerning the authorization of funding for this entity\n for the fiscal years 1982-1984. Included here are: the\n authorization bill, itself; correspondence; \"discussion\n papers\"; press clippings; transcripts of testimony and\n hearing proceedings. (The one file of material about the\n re-authorization of the Department of Justice follows\n the Legal Services papers.)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe \n \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eVoting Rights Act Extension\u003c/emph\u003eseries comprises Butler's legislative papers as a member of the House Judiciary Committee during the consideration of the extension of this Act.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe \n \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eNational Bankruptcy Review\n Commission\u003c/emph\u003epapers are from Butler's service as a\n member of that body from 1995-1997. These 16 cu. ft. of\n materials include: correspondence; meeting minutes;\n memoranda and documents distributed to commission\n members; and the report of the commission and drafts of\n that report.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBox 91 includes audio cassette of\n \"discharge/reaffirmation hearing,\" 1997.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBicentennial of American Revolution Flag; Bicentennial Medal, 1976; American College of Bankruptcy Commendation plaque, March 14, 1998.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNavy hat, brass buttons, insignia, pins and dog tags.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eContents: 24\"x36 inch photo of Butler, c. 1961; House Concurrent Resolution 672, July 1, 1976; Washington and Lee University Honorary Doctor of Laws Diploma, June 1, 1978; Birthday card from staff, June 2, 1973; National Small Business Association Certificate of Recognition, October 1978; certificate, Governor George Allen (Virgini) naming Butler to Governor's Advisory Council on Self-Determination and Federalism, November 14, 1994.\u003c/p\u003e"],"scopecontent_heading_ssm":["Scope and Content Information","Scope and Content\n "],"scopecontent_tesim":["The \n M(anley)Caldwell Butler\n Papers consist of approximately 96 cu. ft. of materials from 1925-2006. Most of the papers cover the periods 1972-1982 and 1995-1997. The papers are divided\n into seventeen series: June Nolde Butler papers; correspondence and subject files; military service; appointment calendars; campaigns; scrapbooks, clippings and photos; speeches; newsletters, press\n releases, radio reports and weekly reports; voting record;\n constituency correspondence; confirmation of Gerald R. Ford as\n Vice President; impeachment of President\n Richard M. Nixon; Bankruptcy Reform Act of 1978;\n Legal Services Corporation; re-authorization of the Department of Justice\n for the Fiscal Year 1982; Voting Rights Act extension; the National Bankruptcy Review\n Commission, 1995-1997; and Artifacts, 1944-1998. With the exceptions of the first six series and National\n Bankruptcy Review Commission materials, these papers were\n generated during Butler's terms as U. S. Representative for\n the 6th Congressional District of Virginia, 1972 -1982 (93rd\n Congress - 97th Congress).","The refinement levels of processing are mixed. The gradual donation of materials over a period \n of 40 years is chiefly the cause. The Nixon Impeachment and Bankruptcy Reform Act of 1978 materials \n are mostly described down to the folder level. The National Bankruptcy Review Commission materials arrived largely self-arranged. \n Most other areas of the colleciton, however, are largely unprocessed beyond being sorted into tentative series.","This is particularly true of additions made in 2018 through the estate of Butler's son, James. This has resulted in a temporary \n box renumbering in boxes 1-7. There is also a box of artifacts added at the end of all of the papers.","Biographical materials,general correspondence, correspondence with parents and siblings,Letters, \n invitations, menus, calendars, subject files, photos, clippings, artifacts, photos scrapbook (1933-1950)\n and correspondence (1947-1950) with her future husband, M Caldwell Butler","Nixon Impeachment historical studies; Correspondence re publication of book, Stonewall Jim;\n GOP Gala, 2001; certificates of award and merit; records of naval service; education records \n and related materials.","Subjects include: United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit; \n National Bankruptcy Review Commission; Sarah Butler Memorial; Sam Garrison Bar Discipline; \n Bankruptcy Law; Watergate/Impeachment; Susan Aheron; Butler for Governor; Newspaper Items; \n Legal Services Corporation; The Miller Center; and Virginia Cares.","Correspondence, subject files, surveys, election returns, and memorabilia","In addition to campaign and general coverage, these scrapbooks treat: editorials mentioning Butler; economic conferences; farm conferences; HUD and FMHA conferences; Lynchburg Weather Station; minority business conferences.","Most of these appear to have been kept by his Congressional Office Staff. They document his day-to-day official activities.","These also document his official activities.","The recordings range from appearances on Face the Nation to local forums.","There is a variety of publications on a variety of mainly political topics. forms of materials include trade books, government documents, brochures, and magazinies. ","Speeches (1964-2001; bulk 1973-1982) are also\n arranged chronologically. The audience, occasion, and\n location are usually noted. From January 1976 onward, a\n topical index is present in addition to the\n chronological listings that are available for all of the\n years. Some nine speeches are missing from the original\n inventory, while others not on that listing were found\n during processing and added to the finding aid.","Newsletters (1973-1981)were\n generated by Congressman Butler's staff to keep citizens\n of the Sixth District of Virginia informed on issues\n before the House, and on the activities of his office.\n The newsletters(N:) are arranged chronologically with an\n alphabetical reference index that has been updated\n through October 1, 1982. This index includes references\n to Radio Reports(RR#) and Weekly Reports(WR#). News\n (Press) Releases (1972-1982), Radio Reports (1973-1978),\n and Weekly Reports (1979-1982) are arranged\n chronologically and their indices provide brief\n summaries of the topics discussed.","The \n Members Personal Voting\n Record covers the period 1973-1982 (93rd Congress\n First Session to the 97th Congress Second Session). Each\n Congress' voting record is divided into two sessions. A\n cumulative record for each Congress is also present.\n Included here are: roll numbers, dates, daily record\n page number, description, and members response. Each\n record contains a roll call subject guide and an index\n to the voting record. Although Butler began his\n congressional term with the 92nd Congress, there is no\n personal voting record for this time.","The \n Constituency Correspondence is\n almost exclusively from the period of the impeachment of\n Richard M. Nixon. The letters are divided into those\n favoring impeachment and those opposed to this action.\n There is also correspondence in reaction to the pardon\n of Nixon by President Gerald R. Ford.","Materials concerning the \n Confirmation of Gerald R. Ford as\n Vice President include: correspondence, memoranda,\n a briefing book, and transcriptions of testimony and\n proceedings during the hearings.","Ford medical and financial records are closed.","Congressman Butler sat on the House Judiciary\n committee that investigated and voted on the \n impeachment of President Richard M.\n Nixon . The impeachment materials are 15 cu. ft.\n in extent and include: narratives about the Watergate\n break-in and related events, and about the bombing of\n Cambodia; interview transcripts and recorded testimony\n of persons involved in Watergate activities; general\n impeachment inquiry materials(committee notebooks,\n personal notes, etc.); reports on White House\n Surveillance activities; Department of Justice/ITT\n Litigation; Milk Producers Cooperatives investigations;\n papers re the Judiciary Committee's \"Fragile Coalition\";\n general correspondence and memoranda; and printed\n materials. (See also, the series of constituent\n correspondence that precedes the impeachment materials.\n Butler kept an audio diary during the impeachment\n process, and these cassette recordings are included\n here, as are his written notes from this time. Also\n present are partial transcripts of an oral history\n project on the \"Fragile Coalition\" conducted in\n 1974.","Unrevised and unedited","The \n Printed Materials are primarily government documents\n from the period of the impeachment of\n Richard M. Nixon. Below is an enumeration of the titles present from donor gifts 1980-1983. Titles from additions, 1985-2015 are present in these boxes, but not yet listed below.","Book I: December 2, 1971 - June 17,\n 1972","Book I: June 19, 1972 - March 1, 1974 \n Book II: June 17, 1972 - February 9,\n 1973","Book III: June 20, 1972 - March 22,\n 1973","Book IV: March 22, 1973 - April 30,\n 1973","Appendix: Political Matters Memoranda \n I: Presidential Statements \n II: Papers in Criminal Cases \n III: Supplementary Documents \n IV: Political Matters memoranda","Executive Session Hearings Before the Select\n Committee on Presidential Campaign Activities\n of the United States Senate, November\n 13,14,15,16, December 4, 11, 1973.","There are three distinct audio recording projects documenting the days of the House\n Judiciary Committee Nixon Impeachment proceedings in July 1974. The first was part audio\n diary and part interviews involving Rep. Butler and reporter Wayne Woodlief. This project \n ran from May to early August 1974, with most of the recordings being from July. The recordings\n of most of these sessions -- some are missing; it is thought to be few, but there is no definitive \n way of knowing -- are in audio cassettes housed in box 55. There is a user set of CDs of these \n recordings in that box, and there are digital audio files of these tapes housed in Box on the Washington and Lee University \n network. There is also an incomplete set of transcripts for this project in box 54. Woodlief \n spoke of trying to produce a book at least partially based on these tapes. He sent such a proposal\n to Butler on July 10, 1975. The only printed product to emerge from these recordings, however, was \n an extensive article in the July 27, 1975 edition of The Roanoke Times , \n also published in the Virginian-Pilot of the same date.","The second recordings were much more limited in scope. On July 31, 1974, Butler sat down with\n Thomas Mooney, a Judiciary Committee attorney, to record on audiotape, their recollection of \n events as they unfolded on July 22-24. Their primary aim seems to have been capturing the \n drafting of the articles of impeachment. There are transcripts -- again just how complete cannot\n be determined, but not any recordings themselves.","The third project was the most ambitious. It was an attempt to record the Nixon Impeachment memories\n of all of the members of the so-called Fragile Coalition, those Democratic and Republican members of \n the House Judiciary Committee who held the swing votes on impeachment. They came together to draft \n articles of impeachment on which they could all vote \"yes\".","The organizers of this project were Thomas Mooney Sr., Stephen Lynch, and Father Donald Shea, longtime chair\n of the history department at St. Joseph College (Indiana). Mooney was a St. Joseph College alumnus and friend\n of Father Shea. The project was funded by St. Joseph College, and other private funds were solicited, as well.","The project had two parts. In the first part, the organizers interviewed members of the coalition \n individually in their Washington Congressional offices in June 1975. This was followed by a retreat on Hilton Head \n Island, SC in July 1975. Extensive aide memoire printed materials were gathered and given to each member of the coalition \n in advance. The recordings made there were in panel format only, with all of the Fragile Coalition members present.","There are no recordings from this project in the Butler papers. There are transcripts -- once again, there is no\n telling how complete -- from both the individual interviews and the Hilton Head panels. There is a third category of\n transcripts, those with interviewees' corrections handwritten on transcriptions. These corrected copies are from both the \n individual and group sessions. Some of these transcripts were sent to Butler and the Powell Archives by the University\n of Maine's Fogler Library which houses the papers of Fragile Coalition member William Cohen.","Unlike the printed materials that are found throughout the Impeachment series, these books and magazines\n are not government documents. There are copies of Time, Newsweek, and\n Life magazines from the time of the impeachment. There are also books and \n a college thesis giving retropective views on that period.","The \n Bankruptcy Materials are 18\n cu. ft. of papers documenting Butler's work in the\n drafting and passage of the legislation popularly known\n as the Bankruptcy Reform Act of 1978. Forms of materials\n present include: minutes of the Bankruptcy Commission,\n markup books on various versions of bankruptcy bills,\n memoranda, briefing materials, meetings transcripts,\n hearing transcripts, conference materials, Congressional\n Record Notebooks, audio tapes of markup sessions, and\n supplemental information on bankruptcy legislation with\n relevant testimony.","This material was arranged by Butler's office into\n three major components: 1)general materials in\n ring-binder notebooks to which Roman Numerals were\n assigned; 2)\"Supplemental Materials: ... \" filed in\n \"books\" numbered 1-45; and, 3) Ken Klee's research\n materials. The arrangement of these materials is not\n easily grasped, but the donor has provided a \"road map.\"\n A Butler document from around 1980 entitled \"The\n Narrative History of the Bankruptcy Act Revision\"\n provides a concise, informal legislative history of the\n Bankruptcy Reform Act of 1978 from Mr. Butler's\n perspective. It also discusses the creation and\n arrangement of these records and includes references to\n the Roman numeral numbering scheme employed by Butler's\n staff. This narrative is found in the first folder of\n the first box of bankruptcy materials(box 57). A second\n helpful narrative entitled \"The Establishment of the\n Commission\" states the reasons that impelled Congress to\n establish the Commission on Bankruptcy in June of 1970.\n This can be found in box 71 in the folder titled \"Mun.\n 5.\" Ken Klee's article on bankruptcy legislative (box\n 72) may also be of use in understanding events leading\n up to the 1978 act. The article is entitled, \"Congress\n and the Bankruptcy Act of 1976,\" and appeared in volume\n 61 of the \n American Bar Association\n Journal (October, 1975).","The \n general materials have been\n removed from the ring-binders, but the folders that now\n hold them are labeled with the Roman numeral\n corresponding to the binder in which they were formerly\n housed. Everything from 1971 research materials to the\n printed public law version of the 1978 Bankruptcy Reform\n Act can be found here. Books and pamphlets printed by\n the Government Office of Printing are found in Roman\n numeral sections I and III-IX. Included here are the\n Commission on Bankruptcy Laws Report, H.R. 10792, H.R.\n 16643, Hearings on H.R. 31 and H.R. 32, Hearings on S.\n 235, S. 236, H.R. 6, and oversized side-by-side\n comparisons of VI (H) and XIII of H.R. 31 and 32 and S.\n 2266 and H.R. 8200 (stored in box 75).","All of the \"Supplemental Legislation and Testimony\"\n is contained in 45 \"books\" and includes correspondence,\n notes and paste-ups of various sections of proposed\n versions of the bankruptcy bill. Section \"F,\" of XLIII\n \"Conference Materials\" (Box 61, Folder 9 from the\n general materials described above) contains the index to\n the 45 books. Much of the contents are reiterations of\n information from the \"Roman numeral\" notebooks arranged\n for quick reference. Testimony is arranged by bill\n section.","The Ken Klee's bankruptcy files were created while\n Klee served as associate counsel for the Subcommittee on\n Civil and Constitutional Rights of the House Committee\n on the Judiciary. They are 4 cu. ft. in extent and are\n divided into three sections: uniform bankruptcy file,\n municipal bankruptcy file (MUN), and bankruptcy act\n subject files. An index to Klee's files is contained in\n Section \"E\" of XLIII \"Conference Materials\" (Box 61,\n Folder 9). The Uniform Bankruptcy Files are arranged\n numerically beginning with the number 102 and contain\n statements, testimonies, correspondence, memoranda,\n drafts and other relevant materials regarding the\n proposed bankruptcy rules. The Municipal Bankruptcy File\n is arranged numerically. The files are designated MUN\n with a corresponding number. These files also contain\n drafts, testimonies, statements, memorandums and\n reports. Klee's Bankruptcy Subject Files are arranged\n alphabetically. Included here (under 'g') is general\n correspondence from 1973-1978.","#I - LII","(A) \n March 19-June 14, 1971 \n September 15,16-November 15, 1971 \n December 13-January 30,31, 1972 \n April 10-May 1, 1972 \n June 12-September 11-12, 1972 \n October 9-10, 1972 \n November 13-14, 1972 \n December 4-5, 1972","(B) \n December 4-5, 1972 \n January 15-16, 1973 \n February 22-24, 1973 \n March 15-17, 1973 \n April 12-14, 1973 \n June 7-12, 1973","(A) \n (B) \n (C)","(A) \n (B) \n (C)","(E) \n (F) \n (G) \n (H) -- Side-by-Side of H.R. 31 and H.R.\n 32 (2 copies) September 2, 1975. In oversize\n carton 49.","(A) \n (B) \n (C)","(A) \n (B)","(A)","(B) \n (C)","(A) \n (B)","Source 13 260;263 \n Source 14 322-323 \n Source 15 336 \n Source 20 412-415 \n Source 23A 502 \n Source 50 549;554-555 \n Source 30 587-588 \n Source 31 595-596 \n Source 33 612-613","Books for S. 2266 and H.R. 8200; H.R. 31 and H.R. 32\n ","Published by San Diego Urban League,\n Inc.","Enclosed copy of RRRA and RRRRA","Legal Services Corporation\n Act papers consist of one cu. ft. of materials\n concerning the authorization of funding for this entity\n for the fiscal years 1982-1984. Included here are: the\n authorization bill, itself; correspondence; \"discussion\n papers\"; press clippings; transcripts of testimony and\n hearing proceedings. (The one file of material about the\n re-authorization of the Department of Justice follows\n the Legal Services papers.)","The \n Voting Rights Act Extension series comprises Butler's legislative papers as a member of the House Judiciary Committee during the consideration of the extension of this Act.","The \n National Bankruptcy Review\n Commission papers are from Butler's service as a\n member of that body from 1995-1997. These 16 cu. ft. of\n materials include: correspondence; meeting minutes;\n memoranda and documents distributed to commission\n members; and the report of the commission and drafts of\n that report.","Box 91 includes audio cassette of\n \"discharge/reaffirmation hearing,\" 1997.","Bicentennial of American Revolution Flag; Bicentennial Medal, 1976; American College of Bankruptcy Commendation plaque, March 14, 1998.","Navy hat, brass buttons, insignia, pins and dog tags.","Contents: 24\"x36 inch photo of Butler, c. 1961; House Concurrent Resolution 672, July 1, 1976; Washington and Lee University Honorary Doctor of Laws Diploma, June 1, 1978; Birthday card from staff, June 2, 1973; National Small Business Association Certificate of Recognition, October 1978; certificate, Governor George Allen (Virgini) naming Butler to Governor's Advisory Council on Self-Determination and Federalism, November 14, 1994."],"userestrict_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThere are no restrictions.\u003c/p\u003e"],"userestrict_heading_ssm":["Use Restrictions"],"userestrict_tesim":["There are no restrictions."],"language_ssim":["English"],"total_component_count_is":567,"online_item_count_is":0,"component_level_isim":[0],"sort_isi":0,"timestamp":"2026-05-20T15:09:15.002Z"}]}},"label":"Breadcrumbs"}}},"links":{"self":"https://arvasarchive.org/catalog/vilxwl_vilxwl00003_c16_c02_c01_c07"}}],"included":[{"type":"facet","id":"repository_ssim","attributes":{"label":"Repository","items":[{"attributes":{"label":"Washington and Lee University, Law School","value":"Washington and Lee University, Law School","hits":568},"links":{"self":"https://arvasarchive.org/catalog.json?f%5Bcollection%5D%5B%5D=M.+Caldwell+Butler+Papers+%0A+++++++++1945-2006\u0026f%5Brepository%5D%5B%5D=Washington+and+Lee+University%2C+Law+School"}}]},"links":{"self":"https://arvasarchive.org/catalog/facet/repository_ssim.json?f%5Bcollection%5D%5B%5D=M.+Caldwell+Butler+Papers+%0A+++++++++1945-2006"}},{"type":"facet","id":"collection_ssim","attributes":{"label":"Collection","items":[{"attributes":{"label":"M. 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