THE DAILY TELEGRAPH: Barack Obama has admitted that he sometimes writes personal cheques to Americans who write him their tales of economic woe.
The US President told White House correspondent Eli Saslow that sometimes he felt drawing on his own bank account was all he could do for Americans struggling to pay their bills in the embattled American economy.
The revelation is made in Mr Saslow's new book "Ten Letters", about Mr Obama's correspondence with the American public.
"It's not something I should advertise, but it has happened," he was quoted as telling Mr Saslow in an excerpt from the book in The Washington Post.
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