Oral history transcript, Donald J. Cronin, interview 2 (II), 12/4/1989, by Michael L. Gillette
Title:
Oral history transcript, Donald J. Cronin, interview 2 (II), 12/4/1989, by Michael L. Gillette
Number of Pages:
19
Description:
Foreign policy during the Dwight Eisenhower administration; Robert Taft and the Hill-Burton Act; partisanship in the Senate during the Eisenhower administration; the Bricker Amendment; support for organized labor in southern states; separation of church and state in the South; initiation of the National Defense Education Act (NDEA), changes made to the Act and how it was passed; Senator Lister Hill's support for reciprocal trade; Hill's and Estes Kefauver's involvement in a 1955 bill relating to the polio vaccine; 1962 amendments to the Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act; opposition to health legislation from the American Medical Association (AMA); the defeat of the Capeheart Amendment; raising minimum wage to one dollar an hour in 1955; Hill's attitude toward the Southern Manifesto in 1956; challenging the Supreme Court in regard to racial integration.
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Interviewee:
Donald J. Cronin
Interviewer(s):
Michael L. Gillette
Specific Item Type:
Oral history
Type:
Text
Format:
Paper
Identifier:
oh-cronind-19891204-2-09-38
Date:
1989-12-04
Time Period:
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Citation
Oral history transcript, Donald J. Cronin, interview 2 (II), 12/4/1989, by Michael L. Gillette,
LBJ Library Oral Histories,
LBJ Presidential Library,
accessed April 25, 2024,
https://www.discoverlbj.org/item/oh-cronind-19891204-2-09-38