Theodore Roosevelt’s favorite pocket watch, which he carried around the world and wore in the White House, was returned Thursday to the president’s former home on Long Island decades after it was stolen from a mansion in Buffalo.
The watch itself is “fairly pedestrian,” with an “inexpensive coin silver case,” the F.B.I.
It was a present from Roosevelt’s sister, Corinne Roosevelt Robinson, and he cherished it.
“You could not have given me a more useful present than the watch; it was exactly what I wished,” he wrote in a letter to her.
Tweed Roosevelt, Teddy’s great-grandson, learned about the watch this Tuesday, when the Park Service contacted him about its recovery, he said.
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