Having served as chairman of the Advisory Council to President Kennedy's Committee on Equal Employment Opportunities in the early 1960s and later as an outspoken member of the National Alliance of Businessmen, G. William Miller (b. 1925) was appointed Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve by President Carter in 1977. As Fed Chairman he worked closely with the White House planning a joint assault on inflation by government, private industry, and labor groups. Appointed Secretary of the Treasury by Carter in 1979, Miller's plan was to find the fundamental causes of the country's economic problems and attack them. He got Congress to extend unemployment benefits and encourage private investment by cutting taxes for individuals.
Miller had a long-standing commitment to jobs programs and promoted good relations between Carter and the AFL-CIO. He was described as "a feisty little guy, with a boyish grin and a broken nose, and that spontaneous, optimistic American attitude that trouble is inevitable but everything is possible." Miller resigned at the end of Carter's term.
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