You can get a President to say anything you want, but Ronald Reagan has a large number of Reagan relatives buried on Crane Hill overlooking Seymour ~ and they didn't get to do that by 'splainin to the locals that they were Soumi and not Sa'ami! (as if any of them knew anything about any of that eh).
NOTE: First place I've encountered an Orthodox/Russian cross on a really old grave in Southern Indiana was in a pioneer cemetery on Crane Hill. There are several such burial grounds there. I do believe all the log cabins have been taken down and relocated elsewhere.
He has no finnish roots (Ronald Reagan).
The legacy of the 17th century "Forest Finns" lives on in the border areas of Norway and Sweden By some curious historical accident, George W. Bush may have his roots in Finnish Savo
Helsingin Sanomat / First published in print 19.10.2008