This study is an expanded and revised version of a chapter written
for a book entitled, The Presidential Election and Transition, 1960-
1961, published in 1961 by the Brookings Institution of Washington,
D. C. I want to thank Professor Paul T. David, editor of this book,
for his valuable criticism and help in preparing the chapter manu-
script.

Portions of the data in this study were collected by Congressional
Quarterly, Inc. and made available to the Citizens' Research Founda-
tion. I wish to thank Mr. Thomas Schroth, editor of Congressional
Quarterly, for his cooperation.

Special appreciation is due Mr. Joseph Baird, finance chairman
of the New York Citizens for Kennedy-Johnson, for providing lists of
contributors and other information regarding that organization.

Additional information was obtained in personal interviews, through
correspondence and by telephone. Many finance managers and others
preferred to remain annonymous. For this reason, I regretfully can-
not name the many persons who graciously provided information.

Alexander Heard and Wayles Browne, Jr. read the complete manu-
script and parts of it in several revised forms. Both were always ready
with valuable advice based on their previous work in the field of
money in politics--Professor Heard book, The Costs of Democracy,
is well-known as an authoritive work, and Dr. Browne was Chief
Statistician to the Senate Subcommittee on Privileges and Elections
during the preparation of the Gore Committee Report.

Mrs. Joan Levinson, Mrs. Erika Gurr, and Mr. Ted Gurr helped
with typing, correspondence, filing and library work. My assistant,
Miss Joan C. Potter, was helpful in many ways but especially with
statistical computations. I want to thank the New Jersey Citizenship
Clearing House for providing an Intern, Mr. Edward Katz, who dil-
igently prepared the material on allocations to candidates.

I always appreciate the cooperation and encouragement received
from officers and members of the Board of Trustees of the Citizens'
Research Foundation.

I dedicate this study to my wife, Nancy, whose devotion to my work
is exceeded only by her devotion to her family.

None of those who were so helpful are responsible for errors of
ommission or commission; for those, as for interpretations, the author
bears sole responsibility.

Herbert E. Alexander

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