Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - Bayan da ta kasance tare da Jam'iyyar Democrat tun lokacin da ta fara zabe, don Franklin D. Roosevelt, a 1968 Butterworth ya zama shugaban yakin neman zaben shugaban kasa ga Eugene McCarthy na Connecticut kuma ya yi aiki a wannan shekara a matsayin wakili ga Jam'iyyar Democrat National Convention
Ka yi haƙuri. Ta yi adawa da Yaƙin Vietnam, ta halarci taron zaman lafiya kuma a 1971, Butterworth, a matsayin memba na Kwamitin Sabis na Abokan Amurka, ya yi tafiya tare da wakilai 169 zuwa Paris don tattauna sharuddan cimma zaman lafiya don kawo ƙarshen yaƙin. Ta kasance mai son zaman lafiya, tana son kawo karshen yakin nan da nan, amma bayan taron ya ji cewa idan Gwamnatin Amurka ba ta fara shirin zaman lafiya ba, tare da janyewar da aka tsara, za a tsawaita rikici. Shekaru da yawa Butterworth ya yi zanga-zanga a kowace Asabar, a West Hartford Center, a kan yaƙe-yaƙe, gami da waɗanda ke Nicaragua, Iran da Iraki, da kuma adawa da makaman nukiliya. Ta kuma yi aiki a hukumar kasa ta Kwamitin Kula da Manufofin Nukiliya, wanda aka fi sani da SANE.