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United States - Signed with a loop

PRESIDENT Barack Obama joked on Thursday that he considered taking back his offer to make White House chief of staff Jack Lew his next Treasury secretary after seeing his loopy, illegible signature. The Treasury secretary's signature appears on US currency.

"I had never noticed Jack's signature, and ... when this was highlighted yesterday in the press, I considered rescinding my offer to appoint him," Obama said to laughter from dignitaries gathered for the announcement of Lew's promotion.



 

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