# Multipe pens used when presidents sign bills

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [March 23, 2010, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/multipe-pens-used-when-presidents-sign-bills/533489 "2010-03-23T15:59:18Z")\
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**Author:** ![dtilque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d6d6ee/32.png) [@dtilque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dtilque)\
**Post date:** [March 25, 2010, 8:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/multipe-pens-used-when-presidents-sign-bills/533489/41 "2010-03-25T08:32:11Z")

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> [@J\_Cubed](#):
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> And the current record seems to be 40 by Clinton.

According to this [Time magazine article](http://www.time.com/time/politics/article/0,8599,1974490,00.html) Johnson used more than 75 to sign the Civil Rights Act of 1964. That may have been the one I remember hearing about as a kid. However, the same article says that the practice goes back at least as far as FDR (perhaps answering my question above.)

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**Author:** ![njtt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ecd19e/32.png) [@njtt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/njtt)\
**Post date:** [March 25, 2010, 11:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/multipe-pens-used-when-presidents-sign-bills/533489/42 "2010-03-25T11:47:08Z")

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> [@Simplicio](#):
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> [Here’s the signature](http://www.flickr.com/photos/whitehouse/4458527284/in/set-72157623676571910/). Actually looks pretty good, considering, except for the mildly retarded look “O”.

Damn! No Hussein!

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