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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
of church and state in the South; initiation of the National Defense Education Act (NDEA), changes made to the Act and how it was passed; Senator Lister Hill's support for reciprocal trade; Hill's and Estes Kefauver's involvement in a 1955 bill relating

out. I believe there was a committee appointed that held an investigation and the committee came up with what I'm going to call a "slap-on-the-wrist" sort of thing. And I think it all went by the wayside. But that's right. Francis Case was a major-domo
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 1 (I), 9/14/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

as Democrat; he had the kind of rapport whereby they would pretty well work out all the various conditions of the piece of legislation. Again, this was the hard, conscientious worker that Hill was. But pretty much by the time it came out of committee, it would

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

Kennedy came out surprisingly well in the state. G: He did carry the state. C: He carried the state. G: Looking at the earlier phase of the campaign, the primaries and conventions, did you attend the Democratic Convention in Los Angeles? C
1960 Democratic National Convention; Alabama citizens' opinion of John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon; the Kennedy/Nixon debate in Tuscaloosa, Alabama; LBJ's and Lady Bird Johnson's 1960 campaign trip through Alabama; LBJ's ambition; LBJ as vice

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 5 (V), 3/14/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

mobilized the nation's sense of loss after Kennedy to press for key legislation that he was interested in, like the civil rights bill of 1964? C: I don't think so. I don't recall any overt effort to accomplish that through that means. I don't think so. G

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

of Taft-Hartley. As I remember--and again, you would have check [inaudible]--but as I remember it we probably voted to maintain the right-to-work law as is, being a right-to-work state. But as national chairman of the committee, which goes beyond the state
The origin of the National Defense Education Act (NDEA); education legislation and separation of church and state; student loan forgiveness for public and private school teachers; Senator Lister Hill's interest in education; working with Congressman

, and we couldn't get through to get into Maryland because the National Guard had been called out and everything, every circle, every entrance was barricaded and blocked off. I finally showed them identification and said I worked up in the Senate and we

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