Oral history transcript, Donald J. Cronin, interview 2 (II), 12/4/1989, by Michael L. Gillette

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 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 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 toward the Southern Manifesto in 1956; challenging the Supreme Court in regard to racial integration.