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Oral history transcript, Donald J. Cronin, interview 7 (VII), 4/17/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • here with Lyndon Johnson that was taken that particular night. But we had a briefing with [Secretary of State] Dean Rusk, [Robert] McNamara--the Secretary of Defense--to tell us about Vietnam policies, the very thing you're asking about. And we walked
Oral history transcript, Donald J. Cronin, interview 5 (V), 3/14/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • --and in this case some of the advocates [opponents?] of civil rights legislation--Russell Long--really read that signal right, because I think the time had come, I think because of World War II and [President Harry] Truman's order insofar as the armed forces. I
Oral history transcript, Donald J. Cronin, interview 4 (IV), 2/15/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • never had any problem with it. I don't have that language in front of me now, but it was so watered-down. And I looked at things more like a lawyer I suppose than a layman does, but as you read it, it really said nothing. It was like, "Anybody who smokes
Oral history transcript, Donald J. Cronin, interview 8 (VIII), 5/16/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • : There were those who primarily, as I remember at the time, were aligned with the health effort who encouraged Lister Hill to run. Senator Hill was extremely closed-mouthed in that regard, and I was too. I could pretty well read, I felt, the signs that he
Oral history transcript, Donald J. Cronin, interview 2 (II), 12/4/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • grant program--but I've been away from there for a number of years, but I still read the papers and I know of no federal grant program that's ever done that since. G: To what extent did Lyndon Johnson and the Democrats in the Senate cooperate
Oral history transcript, Donald J. Cronin, interview 6 (VI), 3/29/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • didn't hand it to me with instructions. I knew what he was saying: "Read through before I even consider it and see if it's clean on the racial end; see if I can afford to introduce it. See if I can afford to be a sponsor. And then we'll go to the merits