[Tex/LaTex] Disappearing Footnote

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Goals: I would like to have the title, author, date, and the table of content on the same page. I also want the capability of being able to have a footnote to the author.

What I have done so far: I came up with the following hack. It works except for the footnote. (This is my first ever hack and therefore, it is probably pretty amateurish, may be something I should not be doing in the first place.)

I am open to any other method as long as I can achieve the stated goals with hyperref working. (It would be also nice if I can have control over the fonts used.)

\documentclass[12pt]{report}
\usepackage{lipsum}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[ocgcolorlinks, hypertexnames]{hyperref}


\makeatletter
\renewcommand{\tableofcontents}[1]{%
\begin{center}%
    \renewcommand\thefootnote{\@fnsymbol\c@footnote}%
    \let \footnote \thanks
    {\huge\bfseries \@title \par}%
    \vskip 2em%
    {\large
     \lineskip .75em%
      \begin{tabular}[t]{c}%
        {\bfseries \@author}
      \end{tabular}\par}%
      \vskip 1em%
    {\large \@date \par}%     
  \section*{\center{#1}}
  \end{center}\par
    \@starttoc{toc}%
      }
\makeatother

\renewcommand{\thechapter}{}
\renewcommand{\chaptername}{}

\title{This is a test}
\author{John Doe\footnote{where is the foot note?}}

\begin{document}
\tableofcontents{Table of Contents}
\chapter{Preface}
 \lipsum[1]
\chapter{First Thing}
  \lipsum[2]
  \chapter{Second Thing}
  \lipsum[3]
   \chapter{Third Thing}
  \lipsum[4]
\end{document}

The first page of the output is given below.
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Best Answer

Do you need report?

If you could switch to article you could do it with 'standard'. But you must change chapter to section, section to subsection...

\documentclass[12pt]{article}
\usepackage{lipsum}

%some additional requested format changes
\usepackage{sectsty}
\setcounter{secnumdepth}{0}
\sectionfont{\huge\bfseries}

\title{This is a test}
\author{John Doe\footnote{where is the foot note?}}

\begin{document}
\maketitle
\tableofcontents
\clearpage

\section{Preface}
 \lipsum[1]
\section{First Thing}
  \lipsum[2]
  \section{Second Thing}
  \lipsum[3]
  \section{Third Thing}
  \lipsum[4]

\end{document}
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