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Oral history transcript, Donald J. Cronin, interview 7 (VII), 4/17/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . While I haven't always agreed with the action taken, whether it be Roosevelt or whomever, I've always felt that they had information I didn't have and I had to go ahead and salute and say, "Sir," and hope for the best. So that looking back, I don't
Oral history transcript, Donald J. Cronin, interview 2 (II), 12/4/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • it was initiated as a defense issue? C: Yes, sir. That particular bill--I don't know if we've gotten into this in the past. G: Not yet. The National Defense Education-- C: The National Defense Education Act, that particular bill. We got back in late October
Oral history transcript, Donald J. Cronin, interview 4 (IV), 2/15/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • and, as I said earlier to you, I don't recall if that's during the vice presidency, but around that period of time. G: Conceivably, the presidency or the vice presidency. C: Yes, G: sir. Did Johnson try to retain some of his prerogatives as majority
Oral history transcript, Donald J. Cronin, interview 1 (I), 9/14/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • -- I -- 5 G: So was your primary responsibility that of Alabama, looking after the home state political needs? C: Primarily. Of course that included Alabama--what I'm going to call casework, what I'm going to call Alabama projects. If we had
Oral history transcript, Donald J. Cronin, interview 8 (VIII), 5/16/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , Jr. and the riots here in Washington. Tell me about that. Is that a vivid memory in your--? C: Well, the riots are a vivid memory in that at that time--of course, working in the legislative branch, we were entitled to keep our home state plates
Oral history transcript, Donald J. Cronin, interview 5 (V), 3/14/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • or whatever this thing went on. And this is what they called the bus boycott, which was much closer to home than any of these other incidents you're talking about. That's where it really all began, and that's where the whites then stood back and mobilized
Oral history transcript, Donald J. Cronin, interview 6 (VI), 3/29/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Powell as the chairman of the House Education and Labor Committee. What was it like to work with Powell on things like this? C: We really didn't. We didn't have that much rapport with Adam Clayton Powell. Powell stayed in trouble at home a good bit