Theodore Roosevelt’s stolen pocket watch recovered by FBI after 37 years [Video]

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Special agents from the National Park Service (NPS), in coordination with FBI Investigators, recently recovered a presidential timepiece after it was last seen in a public display in 1987.

The historic pocket watch had been missing for 37 years due to theft. It was taken during the object’s transition from the Sagamore Hill National Historic Site to the Theodore Roosevelt Inaugural Historic Site in Buffalo, New York.

The invaluable silver pocket watch was gifted to then-future President Theodore Roosevelt by his sister Corinne and brother-in-law Douglas Robinson in 1898, according to the NPS in a media release.

MEET THE AMERICAN WHO FOUNDED THE AMERICAN LEGION, THEODORE ROOSEVELT JR., PRIVILEGED TO FIGHT AND TO SERVE

The 126-year-old keepsake is inscribed “THEODORE ROOSEVELT FROM D.R. AND C.R.R.”

Roosevelt was given the watch while impatiently waiting in …