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Alexander Butterfield - Wikipedia

Between 1946–49 he was assigned by the U.S. Army to Yale University, where he also taught, to begin the first USAF ROTC program. From 1950–52 he transferred to Colorado Springs to establish Air Defense Command. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander…

Butterfield also oversaw all FBI investigations requested by the White House, which included routine background checks of potential employees as well as politically motivated investigations.

Butterfield also oversaw installation of the taping system which Nixon ordered for the White House. On February 10, 1971,

Butterfield worked with the Secret Service to install five hidden microphones in Nixon's desk in the Oval Office, two in lamps on the mantel over the fireplace, two in the cabinet room, and on all telephone lines in the Lincoln Sitting Room and Oval Office.[23] According to

Butterfield, the system was highly secret, its existence known only to Nixon, Haldeman, Higby, and the three or four Secret Service technical staffers who installed it. In April 1971, Nixon ordered the taping system installed in his private office in the Executive Office Building

In March 1973, Butterfield was confirmed as administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration, and left the White House. By late 1972, Butterfield felt his job no longer challenged him, and he informally told President Nixon that he wanted to leave. Nixon offered him a

position in the State Department, but Butterfield was not interested in it. Nixon then suggested the Federal Aviation Administration, and Butterfield agreed Now 89, Butterfield lives in La Jolla, where more people seem to know him as the longtime companion of Audrey Geisel,

Dr. Seuss’ widow, than as an important figure in one of the nation’s most famous political scandals. Butterfield came to the White House as an outsider. In late 1968, he was a colonel in the Air Force, frustrated about being assigned to a desk job in Australia, when he noticed a

newspaper article about a college acquaintance who was going to be the newly elected president’s top aide: H.R. “Bob” Haldeman.

He finally found work with a flight-service company in San Francisco, then moved to Los Angeles to run a financial holding corporation, and then

started his own business-productivity consulting firm, Armistead & Alexander, named after two ancestors who were military heroes.
He moved in 1992 to San Diego, an area he knew because he spent parts of his childhood in Coronado, the son of a Navy officer.

Nixon loyalists have vilified him, President Ford has dumped him into the recession job market, Congress has denied him the perquisites of his long military career and L. Fletcher Prouty, a retired Air Force colonel, has charged that he was the C.I.A.'s “contact man” in the

White House.