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Oral history transcript, Donald J. Cronin, interview 2 (II), 12/4/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Association] shall control our crowd but not any members of Congress. So here you had a proposition whereby in 1962 you had effectiveness and safety involved. As I think I mentioned to you at one point in time in our first session, we had problems
  • to the polio vaccine; 1962 amendments to the Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act; opposition to health legislation from the American Medical Association (AMA); the defeat of the Capeheart Amendment; raising minimum wage to one dollar an hour in 1955; Hill's attitude
Oral history transcript, Donald J. Cronin, interview 7 (VII), 4/17/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • 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
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
Oral history transcript, Donald J. Cronin, interview 4 (IV), 2/15/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Cronin -- IV -- 12 changed now. I think the ABA [American Bar Association] does a lot of ranking and rating now that's a little different from the way it used to be. But we had some at the time with a judgeship bill
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