ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

I am indebted to a number of people. My wife, Joan, typed and retyped the manuscript, kept me supplied with endless cups of hot water, and urged me to go on when I would have faltered. My personal physician, Dr. Robert Ascheim, was also a great consolation.

I would also like to thank Martha Brown, Andrea Nash, Catherine Smythe, and Julia Woody of the TNT Library in Boise. I should also thank Christopher Buckley, who rendered editorial assistance in the preparation of the manuscript.

Finally, I would like to thank former President Thomas Nelson Tucker and Jessica Heath Tucker for giving me a unique opportunity of serving them during a difficult period in this nation’s history.