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

would have let any of these circumstances interfere with that recollection and knowledge of what was going on. G: Anything on Kennedy's telephone call to Coretta King at the end of the campaign when Martin Luther King was in prison
president; LBJ's relationship with the Senate during his vice presidency and presidency; comparing LBJ and Mike Mansfield as leaders; judicial appointments of the Kennedy administration, including Luther Terry as surgeon general; cigarette warning labels

to a vote, but generally speaking I think he would have stayed with the administration. He would have defended it. G: Four or five days after this announcement, the March 31 speech that LBJ would not run, you have the assassination of Martin Luther King
involving Vietnam; the riots in Washington, D.C., following Martin Luther King, Jr.'s death; Robert F. Kennedy's death and his personality; Abe Fortas' nomination as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court; the 1968 presidential election; George Wallace's

Oral history transcript, Donald J. Cronin, interview 1 (I), 9/14/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Martin Luther King and George Wallace and so on. I think we had to decide whether or not, one, you want to stay in Congress under the circumstances and try to do whatever you can, or whether you want to join one side or the other and just admit defeat

Oral history transcript, Donald J. Cronin, interview 5 (V), 3/14/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

I'm not so sure that there was any concerted effort by the clergy and so on. You had Martin Luther King and the March on Washington. You had the black clergy involved in that and so on and so forth, and certainly that had its mark on the times. But I'm

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

versus fixed price supports? C: We had a lot of interest, of course, in Alabama because we were largely agricultural at that time you're talking about and still are largely agricultural. King Cotton had moved out beyond Texas to Arizona and those places

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