Theodore Roosevelt actually said...

"These stories were scurrilous and libelous in character and false in every essential particular."

"They consist simply of a string of infamous libels."

"So utterly baseless are the stories that apparently they represent in part merely material collected for campaign purposes and in part stories originally concocted with a view of possible blackmail."

"As a matter of fact, there is nothing whatever, in which this Government is interested, to investigate about this transaction."