Having been involved with the Democratic Party since she was first able to vote , for Franklin D. Roosevelt , in 1968 Butterworth became chair of the presidential campaign for Eugene McCarthy for Connecticut and served that year as a delegate to the Democratic National Convention . Opposed to the Vietnam War , she attended peace rallies and in 1971 , Butterworth , as a member of the American Friends Service Committee , traveled with 169 delegates to Paris to discuss terms to attain peace to end the war . A committed pacifist , she wanted an immediate end to the war , but after the conference felt that if the United States Government did not initiate a peace plan , with a scheduled withdrawal , the conflict would be prolonged . For decades Butterworth protested every Saturday , in West Hartford Center , against war , including those in Nicaragua , Iran and Iraq , as well as in opposition to nuclear arms . She also served on the national board of the Committee for a Sane Nuclear Policy , known simply as SANE
Democratic National Convention
1968 Democratic National Convention
Miriam Butterworth