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When the president signs a bill and makes it a law he frequently uses a number of pens. He only makes a small part of his signature with each pen. Then he can give the pen to a person and that person can brag this pen was used to sign such and such a bill into law. If the law means anything to a person, then the pen has special significance.

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Traditionally, a U.S. president uses several pens while signing legislation or executive orders so that they can be presented as keepsakes to presidential aides, key congressmen or proponents of the bills. For instance, when President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964, one of the recipents of a pen was the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

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