The pens aren't cheap bics, they cost a few dollars; but the president does not sign a law every day.
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When Lyndon Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act in 1964, he reportedly used over 75 pens.
Absolutely not. 41 U.S.C. 46 mandates that US policymakers use SkilCraft pens for all legal documents, no exceptions. If the president did use a BIC pen, the bill would not be official.
On the presidential staff, a penwiper cleans the pens that the president uses. If you saw Obama signing that deal the other day, he used like 4 different pens. Do you think they clean themselves???
That question is false. Americans use bot. Actually most Americans prefer mechanical.
I have heard that the pens are given away as political gifts.
They wrote with fountain pens that had to be dipped in inkwells or filled I believe. Mostly they would dip them in inkwells.