The Disaster and How Some Escaped
On the curious life of Archibald Butt, confidant to President Taft and tragic victim of the sinking Titanic.
As much as the narrative of Butt’s heroism meant to the family, to the White House, to the military, it seems all too cinematic. The reality is that the experience was probably a great annoyance to him, right up until the moment it became a nightmare.
