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Oral history transcript, Donald J. Cronin, interview 8 (VIII), 5/16/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • /oh Cronin -- VIII -- 8 Senator did not, and wisely not, because at his age then he--being a senator from Alabama, he was a target. G: Later in June you had the assassination of Robert Kennedy out in Los Angeles. Do you remember that? C: I do. I
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
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 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 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