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Oral history transcript, Donald J. Cronin, interview 2 (II), 12/4/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

recollection of the Albert Beeson nomination to be National Labor Relations Board--? C: Not really. G: It was a close, partisan vote. C: I remember it, but you asked me do I have any working recollection; not really. G: Okay. I wanted to ask you
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

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

. The NEA, National Education Association, as I remember at the time was very heavy on this side of it. They saw a potential problem in letting this go beyond the public schools. So that this historically was always a question, always a problem. And one
The origin of the National Defense Education Act (NDEA); education legislation and separation of church and state; student loan forgiveness for public and private school teachers; Senator Lister Hill's interest in education; working with Congressman

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

mobilized the nation's sense of loss after Kennedy to press for key legislation that he was interested in, like the civil rights bill of 1964? C: I don't think so. I don't recall any overt effort to accomplish that through that means. I don't think so. G

Oral history transcript, Donald J. Cronin, interview 4 (IV), 2/15/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

my sword against my own people" statement but he eventually scrapped that in favor of staying with the people. So Lyndon Johnson was able to move away somewhat from some of that heritage and in the process move more onto the national scene than
1960 Democratic National Convention; Alabama citizens' opinion of John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon; the Kennedy/Nixon debate in Tuscaloosa, Alabama; LBJ's and Lady Bird Johnson's 1960 campaign trip through Alabama; LBJ's ambition; LBJ as vice

Oral history transcript, Donald J. Cronin, interview 1 (I), 9/14/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

that election, the people out ringing the doorbells, knocking on doors throughout the state were the medical auxiliary people, the Women's Auxiliary of the AMA [American Medical Association], that sort of thing. This was because Senator Hill had been for some
and financial influence; the American Medical Association's (AMA) opposition to health care legislation that Hill supported; Robert Taft's involvement in the Hill-Burton Act; Hill's relationship with other senators and with LBJ in the 1950s; LBJ's performance

histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Cronin -- VII -- 3 maybe in this year, in this particular year--of going to the White House. We had our Administrative Assistants' Association and I had taken over as president of that during those

much in favor of waterway development. Again, I come to the proposition, is it because the waterways helped develop a system that was essential to the people or--a little bit of the chicken and the 4 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org

with George Wallace and so a good many people took that entry to be George Wallace's man running against Lister Hill. I used the word "gargantuan" for the Senator. Continually it was on his mind back [during] the summer before [the] announcement date deadline

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