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Acknowledgments
Throughout the development of this project, I benefitted from the support and assistance of numerous organizations and individuals. In particular, I wish to thank Westminster College, my professional home for the past seven years, for its ongoing support. Over the past five years, this support has taken the form of a summer research grant, a semester of sabbatical, and several conference travel grants. Drs. Chuck Tripp and Gretchen Siegler, two of my Westminster faculty colleagues, deserve special mention for taking over my advising and administrative responsibilities while I was on sabbatical in the spring of 2009. The Quinney Law Library at the University of Utah, with its helpful staff and robust government documents collection, helped me get this project off the ground. The archivists at the National Archives facility in College Park, Maryland, were patient and generous with their time, providing much-needed assistance to a first-time archival