Theodore Roosevelt actually said...

And again I wish to thank you for these splendid gifts which will commemorate as pleasant a forty-eight hours as any President ever spent since the White House was built.

Context

Remarks Accepting the Gift of a Horse and Saddle in Cheyenne, Wyoming

05/31/1903

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