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THE ART OF THE POSSIBLE: The Memoirs of Lord Butler. by R. A. Butler ‧ RELEASE DATE: Oct. 10, 1972. Thrice passed over for Prime Minister, Rab Butler looks back on 40 years of ""serving the establishment with patient, if unglamorous tenacity"" and with the assurance and unassailable good humor of one who knows he was born to rule -- hence he ...
Inevitably, the interview recalled that Mr. Butler had twice been passed over for the premiership — after the Suez crisis in 1956, when Harold Macmillan was chosen to succeed Sir Anthony Eden ...
Despite his tenure of three of the four Great Offices of State, his popularity with the electorate and the truly revolutionary 1944 Education Act that bears his name, Richard Austen 'Rab' Butler narrowly missed out on the premiership on three separate occasions during his political career, earning him the sobriquet that has attached to his name ever since - The Best Prime Minister That Britain ...
Mar 9, 1982 · Britain's Lord Butler dies. GREAT YELDHAM, England -- Lord 'Rab' Butler, the British politician who died Monday at age 79, often was considered the best prime minister Britain never had. Twice he ...
Jan 1, 2001 · Anthony Howard. 3.80. 10 ratings2 reviews. Richard Austen Butler will always be remembered as the Conservative Party's 'uncrowned Prime Minister'. On the threshold of No. 10 three times in his career -- in 1953, when both Churchill and Eden were ill; in 1957, when he was almost universally expected to take over in the wake of Suez; and again in ...
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Books. RAB: The Life of R.A. Butler. Anthony Howard. J. Cape, 1987 - Biography & Autobiography - 422 pages. Richard Austen Butler will always be remembered as the Conservative Party's "uncrowned Prime Minister". On the threshold of No. 10 three times - in 1953, when both Churchill and Eden were ill; in 1957, when he was expected to take over in ...
