While struggling to help devise an anti-inflation strategy for the nation, the Carter Administration's top financial officer has been fighting his own battle for political survival. Treasury Secretary G. William Miller has had to fend off charges, resulting from a Securities and Exchange Commission investigation, that he perjured himself during the 1978 Senate hearings preceding his confirmation as Federal Reserve Board chairman, a post he held until he moved to Treasury in July 1979. Last week Miller's prospects for survival as a member of the Administration brightened considerably. Attorney General Benjamin Civiletti announced that he saw no grounds for appointing a...
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