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On the Money

NPR

Published December 11, 2002 at 12:00 AM EST

Host Bob Edwards talks with John Ferguson, Director of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing. Ferguson is responsible for putting the treasury secretary's signature onto U.S. paper currency. Now that Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill has resigned, Ferguson is getting ready to put a new name on the dollar bill.

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