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Samuel Miller, 40 acres on Edisto.

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limited by state law. Now

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here's the original Morgan building right on

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the corner of this big block with

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an ad for a movie called Dumb Money in the

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Window. It was built

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on the same location, 23 Wall Street. I'm

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standing with John Fullerton at the corner

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of Wall Street and Broad, right

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across from the New York Stock Exchange. This

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is the iconic Morgan building. It never had the name Morgan

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on it because if you didn't

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know, you didn't need to know. You

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had an office in here? Yeah. My

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first job out of the training program was I was

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sitting right above those flags on the fifth floor. Now

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in his early 60s, John is living

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a very different life than what he

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imagined when he was a fast rising

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star at J.P. Morgan. I think I

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was one of the youngest M.D.s ever

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promoted at the bank at the time. M.D.

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for managing director. He

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earned that title before his...