I was interviewed for about an hour and a half yesterday by a film crew that is making a documentary for PBS on Alexander Hamilton. The interviewee before me was Henry Paulson, the U.S. Treasury Secretary. My interview was in a private home in Georgetown in D.C., but they had to go to Paulson’s office for his interview. The interviewer said Paulson had framed $10,000 and $100,000 bills in his office. If you’re not accustomed to carrying cash like this around with you, you might be interested to know that Salmon P. Chase, Lincoln’s treasury secretary, is on the $10,000 bill, and Woodrow Wilson, the first president to preside over the newly-established Fed, is on the hundred grand note.

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