Skip to main content

Discover Our Collections

8 results

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

, 1990 INTERVIEWEE: DONALD J. CRONIN INTERVIEWER: Michael L. Gillette PLACE: Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 1, Side 1 G: Mr. Cronin, we talked about the late 1950s last time and Lyndon Johnson as majority leader. Let's talk a little bit about

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

in terms of how they dealt with Congress? C: Well, I think simply here that again it's--we'll never know whether or not the same contributions would have flowed at the end of the same period of time. There's just no way we can ever measure that except

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

/exhibits/show/loh/oh Cronin -- I -- 2 eye because of my activities and activeness on the campus. And in so catching Foots' eye then came the time I was graduating and--it happened to coincide. Foots was looking for somebody to send to Washington. I agreed

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

Oral history transcript, Donald J. Cronin, interview 3 (III), 12/14/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

in July of 1953, so I really hadn't been around a whole long time at that particular point in time. But the natural gas bill was one that we received an awful lot of correspondence on, but one that I really wasn't involved in. G: This was the point

Oral history transcript, Donald J. Cronin, interview 7 (VII), 4/17/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

these things you just enumerated--minimum wage and the whole nine yards--these really didn't come up in that period of time. So while I don't remember--which is the honest answer to the question you've asked--I doubt that it would have made a whole lot

Oral history transcript, Donald J. Cronin, interview 8 (VIII), 5/16/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

in that day in time. And the more we talked, and we talked an awful lot about it, I kept using that word, "It will take a gargantuan effort. You can do it but I would have had to have left out of here a week ago now." Then two weeks ago now, and so on and so

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

where we really hammered out a draft of the National Defense Education Act. At that time it was limited to, and only to, engineering, the sciences. I don't remember in categories exactly how it was spelled out, but that's the way it was. This expansion