they'd do it with robert e. lee, they did it with everybody. and so these forgeries are still floating all over the country. worse were people who exploited others in the name of making money off of george washington. and the first of those was p.t. barnum. a lot of people don't realize that p.t. barnum made his name, made his original fortune off of george washington. what he did in the 1830s is he went off to kentucky, and he found an elderly slave named joyce heff. he bought her, brought her back to the east coast, and he coached her. told her you are now 161 years old. [laughter] you were george washington's nanny. and you're going to get up on stage in new york city, in philadelphia and other major cities, and you're going to talk about what it was like to be with young george on the farm at mount vernon. so he coached her with stories like the cherry tree, other stories from parson weems, put her up on the stage and then had her give her spiel over and over. he worked her 12 hours a day, 16 hours a day up to 20 hours a day. eventually, sh