Vote for this answer. Legend has it that on a visit to Nashville in 1907, President Teddy Roosevelt declared that Maxwell House coffee was good to the last drop.. One hundred years after President Roosevelt's declaration, that familiar slogan remains the brand's promise to its customers. There is reasonable doubt that Roosevelt ever actually said this, but Maxwell House themselves claimed he did and used it in ads. 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?