Seven facts about former Fed chairman Alan Greenspan

June 22 (Reuters) - Seven ‌facts about ​former ​Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan, who died on Monday at age 100:

* Greenspan grew up ‌a Benny Goodman fan and before taking ⁠up economics he studied clarinet for two years at New York's ‌Juilliard School and played ‌saxophone with a touring jazz band.

* Greenspan and NBC News correspondent Andrea Mitchell dated for 12 ​years before marrying in 1997.

* Greenspan was notorious for speaking cryptically and once said, "I guess I ⁠should warn you, if I turn out to be particularly clear, you've ​probably misunderstood what I said."

* His first wife introduced Greenspan to Ayn Rand, the "Atlas Shrugged" ​novelist known for her philosophy ‌of individualism, and they became close friends.

* The bathtub served as Greenspan's auxiliary office. ⁠He said it was during his daily morning baths, which sometimes lasted two hours, that he had his ⁠best ideas, using the tub time to read reports and write ​speeches. "Immersed in my bath, I'm as happy as Archimedes as I contemplate the world," he wrote in his memoir.

* After ‌he retired from the Federal Reserve, Penguin Press paid $8.5 million for his memoir, which ‌at the time was the second-largest advance paid ⁠for a non-fiction book.

* ‌In his last ​year at the Fed, Greenspan had a salary of about $180,000.

(Compiled by Bill TrottEditing by Diane ‌Craft)

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