[muawiyah]

Nicholas Murray Butler had an incredibly productive career but in the end we remember him only for his close affiliation with the Progressives (who came up with the disastrous Kellog Briand treaty which allowed Japan to "build up" it's Navy to equal that of the US while forcing the Brits out of the Pacific) and the fact that he turned out to be soft on Nazism.

Guy was a big loser and may not have had the best interests of the United States in mind.

Columbia seems to attract more than its fair share of second-rate school administrators.

[Strategerist]

(who came up with the disastrous Kellog Briand treaty which allowed Japan to "build up" it's Navy to equal that of the US while forcing the Brits out of the Pacific)

You're really confusing treaties. The Kellogg-Briand treaty supposedly outlawed war, but had nothing to do with naval forces.

The Naval Treaties were the Washington and London Naval treaties. Neither treaty that allowed Japan to build equal forces to the US. In some cases Congress refused to even authorize building up to the treaty limits, and of course Japan eventually in 1934 withdrew from the treaties.

And I have no idea what you're talking about regarding the Brits being "forced out of the Pacific." The British couldn't afford to compete in the worldwide naval race and couldn't keep strong forces in the Pacific in any event, because they didn't have enough forces and their priority was the North Atlantic and Mediterranean.