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 evening.

Context

Toasts of the President and the President of Liberia

10/17/1954

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