No, he said there were 60 states.
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/washington/2008/05/new-patriotic-o.html
Watch the video. He said he’d been to “57 states, with one left to go, and Alaska and Hawaii” he really wanted to go to, but his staff couldn’t justify it.
I stand corrected. As an illustration of the current state of education offer 10 dollars to any bright kid if he can name all 60 states. I bet he can’t do it. The most I was ever able to name without a map is 50.