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Acknowledgments I WOULD LIKE TO OFFER my thanks to those persons and institutions that helped me assemble the information that went into this book. lowe a large debt of gratitude to the late Charleston Gazette publisher W. E. "Ned" Chilton, who authorized the use of records and £les at the Gazette , and editor James E. Haught, who pOinted me in the right direction when I was trying to locate the information I needed from those £les. I also must thank the historians who helped me along the way, most notably John G. Morgan, author ofWest Virginia Governors, and Otis K. Rice, author ofWest Virginia: A History. I relied heavily on the historical data so ably prepared in earlier years by Drs. Charles H. Ambler and Festus P. Summers; on 'West Virginia State and Local Government," a treatise begun by Dr. Carl M. Frashure and completed in 1963 by a West Virginia University Bureau of Government research team ofpolitical science professors composed ofClaude J. Davis, Eugene R. Elkins, Mavis M. Reeves, William R. Ross, and Albert L. Sturm; and various editions of the West Virginia Blue Book, without which no writer could assemble the necessary information for a book of this genre. Special thanks go to the late Theodore H. White for the delightful passage about West Virginians in his book, The Making ofthe President, 1960. I found him as charming as he discovered the people of this state to be when he interviewed me during the 1960 presidential campaign. I also utilized the work of those in Washington who prepared the report, "Rivers and Harbors- Flood Control 1962 (Guyandot River Basin, W.Va.)," and of those who prepared the House of Representatives report on "Right-ofWay Acquisition Practices in West Virginia" in 1962. xx AFFLICTING THE COMFORTABLE I am particularly indebted to some very helpful people in the public libraries at Clarksburg, Charleston, and Elkins, as well as at West Virginia University , the West Virginia Division of Culture and History's Archives and History Library, and the United States District Court for Northern West Virginia. Finally, special thanks go to my wife, Margaret, whose encouragement was so essential during my years of research and writing; to my Pulitzer Prizewinning brother, Charles, for doing a sharp read of the manuscript; to Evelyn Harris, political science professor at the University of Charleston and an expert on government affairs, often recruited as a member of special study groups at the state Capitol, for an exhaustive review of my manuscript; and to my daughter Margo, former associate editor of Goldenseal magazine, who toiled uncomplainingly over preparation of the manuscript and who served as editor in trying to give the finished product better continuity and what is hoped to be improved objectivity. ...