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Miller: Another one was President Eisenhower, who was a general 

 at the time. They just pulled off their boots and 

 they slept right on that couch right there. I met 

 all the various high dignitaries and continued daily 

 to get my education. This was my pay of course, for 

 I had only a dollar a year with no other emoluments 

 whatever. 



Baum: How did you make a living? 



Millers I had all those years — my big problem of course was 

 to retain what the sheriff had gotten. This was one 

 of the best-paid jobs in the United States, as sheriff 

 of this county. There was salary, there was prison 

 food, there was civil mileage and state mileage and 

 all types of emoluments. This former sheriff had 

 seen to it in all his life to gather for himself, 

 and he was a great fellow to help people. For 

 instance, if they'd come in and say the roof of 

 their church was leaking he'd give them a new roof, 

 or another colored group would come in and say they 

 needed a paint job, he'd paint their church. He 

 would up almost broke by doing it. He had a lot 

 of income but he gave much of it away. 



