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James A. Miller; Doctor Treated Eisenhower, Westmoreland

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James A. Miller, 71, the first black division surgeon in the California National Guard and a physician who attended Dwight D. Eisenhower during the President’s 1955 hospitalization for a heart attack. He later was personal physician to Gen. William Westmoreland and worked on the commission for the 1984 Olympic Games in Los Angeles. While in the military he helped establish hospitals in Korea, Thailand and Vietnam. On Feb. 11 in Inglewood from a lung ailment.

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