Darn! I was thinking Theodore Roosevelt about the boxer question . . . I should have gone for it! Also on the subject of TR, I'm surprised at that comment about McKinley, especially considering that the latter was assassinated. People generally don't speak ill of the dead, and besides, it violates the later "Reagan rule" of never speaking badly about another Republican.
TR made the statement in 1898. McKinley was shot three years later in 1901.