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According to Maxwell House lore, President Theodore Roosevelt was visiting Andrew Jackson at Jacksonâs estate, The Hermitage, on October 21, 1907. During this visit, he was served Maxwell House coffee, and he reportedly said that it was âgood to the last drop.â Owners Leon T. Cheek and John Neal heard President Rooseveltâs bold statement, and they adopted it as their corporate slogan. Itâs a nice story, but itâs one that has never been historically proven.
The subject of this post is a peculiar association of Maxwell House with Theodore Teddy Roosevelt. Remember the Maxwell House slogan, Good to the Last Drop? Of course you do, who could forget? Well, it is often claimed that Teddy Roosevelt, in 1907, coined the slogan after the coffee was served to him at the Hermitage, a famous Nashville resort that was originally Andrew Jackson's home.