18-01  Robert Miller

I was present with Col. K.D. Nichols (Chief of Operations Manhattan Project), and Col. Alan Johnson (Assistant District Engineer at Syracuse) when they spoke to Daniel Bell then Undersecretary of the Treasury in August of 1942 at West Point when the 14.700 tons of Silver was borrowed.

biography:

Native of Richmond, Illinois, graduated from Roosevelt High School in Saint Lewis 1926 and studied Engineering at Washington University. Federal service began in June of 1930 with the Army Corps of Engineers, St. Louis District. Worked in Flood Control surveys and construction on the Illinois and Mississippi Rivers, and was in the Northeast in 1935 to do similar work in New York and Maine. I was assistant to the Resident Engineer during construction of the Arkport Dam and while assigned to Syracuse and Binghamton district offices was Chief of the Specifications Section. Received Army Commission as Captain in 1942 and retired as Major in 1946. Joined AEC Supply Division in 1947 became Deputy Director in 1951 and was appointed Director in 1961.