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Miller: This led, of course, to the fact that when the 

 Second World War came and I was in better shape, 

 financially and every other way, at the end of my 

 second term for sheriff, after the eight years, I 

 chose not to run again and I chose to accept a pos- 

 ition for a dollar a year to go to Washington as 

 area coordinator of civilian defense of Contra 

 Costa County for Northern California, This was my 

 way of paying back my country and my people for the 

 way they had helped me. 



So I devoted several years in Washington, back 

 and forth, getting flour and food and steel and 

 schools and sewers, and everything that was neces- 

 sary here to help win the war, in this area. Of 

 course, I increased my education. I hobnobbed with 

 all the biggest people of the nation and the world. 

 Many of the highest people in the whole nation 

 slept right in this house, my home. When the war 

 came along I was sheriff here and immediately they 

 came through to see how well we had our country 

 protected, and one of the men who came through and 

 stayed right here was Doolittle, General Doolittle. 



