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it up to where when they took one last shot there'd be a much better chance of passage. And I think that worked. (Interruption) G: Any insights on the issue of whether to provide block grants to state education agencies or categorical grants

dead, and [was a] senator announced against Senator Hill. After the fact Jim Allen got me to one side and told me after he was elected that he merely stepped in there to block other entries into the race, but that if Lister Hill had decided to run he

Oral history transcript, Donald J. Cronin, interview 5 (V), 3/14/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

for the Montgomery Fair, which was about two blocks from where I lived at the time. She was a seamstress as I remember for the Montgomery Fair. I don't remember the chronology of that whole boycott but, you see, we were out of session maybe a couple of months, so
Wallace blocking entrance to the University of Alabama in 1963; the 1965 Selma to Montgomery march; Selma mayor Joseph Smitherman; Hill's opinion of the racial unrest; concern about how all legislative issues could relate to civil rights; the purpose

a fellow named Price was with Senator [Edward J.] Thye, and they were very big in the Alaska statehood movement and he took me along with him. I think it was down at the Mayflower Hotel here where you're staying. I remember they had a huge block of ice

Oral history transcript, Donald J. Cronin, interview 6 (VI), 3/29/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

of his heroes; education was one of his advocacies. I knew none of this. As the new kid on the block, I fixed up a statement. Without knowing it, I just happened to hit it pretty right. But I found not too long thereafter, and included in that statement

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