“The Standby A Wireless Journey Toward the Birth of Radio”
“During the four critical years that de Forest was promoting wireless telegraphy and wireless telephone, Mr. Butler was Sancho to Dr. de Forest’s Don Quixote, Friday to Dr. de Forest’s Robinson Caruso, and Boswell to Dr. de Forest’s Samuel Johnson.
His loyalty to his mentor and the future of wireless transmission were absolute.”
Seymore Rothman -A review of the unpublished manuscript. The Toledo Blade, 1995
“In those very early days of radio, your grandfather (despite his meager education) was one of the few people who understood that Lee de Forest was trying to do something very important. And, based on this understanding, your grandfather wanted to be a part of it. That prescience proved to be fateful for both men in ways they could not foresee. It took a very special man to work with him so loyally, so steadfastly, and with such purposefulness.”
Bart Lee. CHRS (California Historic Radio Society)
“I was struck by how modest and humane your grandfather was! He worked for a genius, but that work demanded thick-skinned equanimity that the genius himself would be unlikely to recognize. It was a true gift to history that your grandfather wrote his interesting and truly informative memoir, and a gift to him and to history that you published it.”
Judith Mears. CHRS