Dwight Eisenhower actually said...

"President Tubman, my friends: I think it would be difficult to conceive of a social occasion in which could be symbolized more of improbable romance and sheer grandeur than we have in this room this e..."

"I feel that we meet also with a very deep affection not only for the individual whom we honor, but for the country that he represents and heads."

"And for all those reasons, I am sure that everyone here will, with real enthusiasm, rise to join me in a Toast to President Tubman of Liberia."

"We as a country have profited because of the great resources of this country, now of two million people—a people whose constitution is written largely in the pattern of our own."