[For context, it’s worth nothing that President McKinley’s wife basically thought he was the greatest man to ever walk the earth, and if you weren’t praising him, she probably didn’t want to hear it.]
When a young Englishwoman admitted at a White House dinner party that much as she liked America, she still loved England best and preferred living there, Mrs. McKinley looked at her severely and exclaimed: “Do you mean to say that you would prefer England to a country ruled over by my husband?”
Source:
Boller, Paul F. "Ida Saxton McKinley." Presidential Wives. New York: Oxford UP, 1988. 192. Print.
Original Source Listed:
Foraker, I Would Live it Again, 259.
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