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the vault was opened.
In the meantime, “I think they had to have cash and they got it hum a bank in Culpeper,” remembers her sister, Louise Miller Vaughn, who lives in Connecticut. “That was Daddy’s life, that bank. He loved it.”
The Vietnam War was going on during Mr. Miller’s presidency of the bank. The U.S. became involved in the war in Vietnam in 1964 and over the years, many young men from the county served in that war. A ceasefire was signed in 1973.
In 1974, the nation’s economy was in the worse recession in 40 years and at the same time, there was such a severe gas shortage, that gas pumps were usually empty and closed by noon.
Again, Rappahannock National Bank weathered the storm, and according to bank officials, “there were no noticeable changes.”
Bill Fletcher remembers a day shortly after he went on the board of directors in 1979 and he was sitting at the bank with another director, George Miller, and an airline pilot came in making $100,000 a year, “which was more than the president made and nobody I knew was making over $20,000 or $30,000,” Mr. Fletcher said.
“He wanted to borrow $20,000. He had a zero net worth. He borrowed on everything he owned. He had bought a house and two Mercedes.
“George Miller looked over at me and said, “It’s not what
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