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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
Foreign policy during the Dwight Eisenhower administration; Robert Taft and the Hill-Burton Act; partisanship in the Senate during the Eisenhower administration; the Bricker Amendment; support for organized labor in southern states; separation

in that at the time. G: [Dwight D.] Eisenhower, citing this episode, vetoed the legislation. Any insights on that and how that affected the situation in your state? C: You're talking about tidelands oil? 1 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org
The natural gas bill of 1956; Senator Lister Hill's reputation for being pro-labor; labor legislation in the 1950s; President Eisenhower's 1958 veto of the rivers and harbors bill; Alaskan statehood; Eisenhower as president; the election

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

emphasized over and over, not only in 1963 and 1964 but back prior to that when Eisenhower came up with his civil rights bill back in 1957 or 1958, along in there--we always made the legal argument along with the moral. But the main emphasis was on the legal

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

. But in that point in time--I think up to this period you're talking about when civil rights really heated up in like 1956 under Eisenhower; they didn't really heat up then, but the public psychology was that they had heated up. So actually the 1957 Civil Rights Act

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