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Miller: I was doing, that I was getting a dollar a year and 

 devoting my energy to my country, that I loved, in 

 return for something I couldn't do when I was younger. 



He said, "Johnny, I'm awfully busy. Here is 

 Miss Gerling," — her name was Miss Madelyn Gerling 

 — "my private secretary, and whenever you need 

 anything she has orders from me to give you priority. 

 You take her by the hand and you go to the various 

 departments, and whatever you need for your county 

 to win the war, you have my blessings. Don't bother 

 me while the war's on if you can help it." So all 

 these various projects that I went to Washington 

 with, I got everything that I wanted for my people, 

 because I didn't want anything for myself. 



But I had a habit, a peculiar habit, of bringing 

 things from California, little tokens, and putting 

 on a little California dinner. Never tried to win 

 their confidence by giving them bourbon or Scotch 

 or steak, but always bringing a duck or some venison 

 or some elk or some moose or some type of California 

 meat, carrying it on my back and bringing it over 

 there. I brought many, many hundreds of my horse 



