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President William Howard Taft said it during a luncheon at the Cliff House in 1911. He made it in connection with the approaching Pan Pacific Exposition in SF that marked the opening of the Panama Canal. Many took it as a sign that the city was recovering from the 1906 earthquake and fire.

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