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. In 1958 you had a big Democratic majority elected in the Senate. How did that change the politics within the Senate? C: In 1958 there would have been a tremendous influx--I remember 1958. There would have been a tremendous influx of new Democrats
of a Democratic majority in the Senate in 1958 and how that changed the character of the Senate; LBJ's relationships with Bill Knowland and Everett Dirksen; LBJ's reputation in the Senate; the Senate majority leader's power; Senate Rule Twenty-Two allowing

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

on in as much detail as you can. Let me ask you first generally about foreign policy during the [Dwight D.] Eisenhower years and how bipartisan it was. The Democrats controlled Congress through much of that time and the Republicans--many of them--had a more

particular years you're talking about. I don't remember which one that was. And we went to the White House, and there, Republicans or Democrats, I had to literally go up and nudge them to go up and shake hands with and be seen with the President of the United
of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA); an alliance between Republicans and Southern Democrats in the Senate, and Everett Dirksen's influence on that alliance; Tommy Corcoran; the Hill-Burton Act and ESEA legislation that favored poorer states.

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

was what I'm going to call the Hill-Sparkman political boss of Alabama. But you must remember that all of this was in the days before the Republican Party, for all practical purposes, so that the head of the Democratic Part--the political head, let's say

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

really--because it looked up to this stage of the game impossible--one really along with the fact that the Senator's father had been a famous physician and so on and was the first fellow in North America to suture the human heart, in Wetumpka, Alabama

and convey to the United States of America all rights, title, and interest in the tape recordings and transcripts of the personal interviews conducted with my late husband Donald J. Cronin, on September 14, 1989; December 4, 1989; December 14, 1989; February
Factors that led to Lister Hill's decision to not run for re-election in 1968; Cronin's reaction to LBJ's 1968 announcement that he would not run for re-election; public opinion regarding Vietnam; Hill's support for the administration's actions

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