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Things Really Were More Fun In Washington When Clinton Was President

by @ 5:16 pm on September 21, 2009. Filed under Foreign Affairs, Humor, Russia

After all, when was the last time you heard of something like this happening:

Boris Yeltsin got so drunk during a visit to Washington in 1995 that Secret Service agents found him standing on Pennsylvania Avenue clad only in his underwear and trying to hail a cab so he could fetch a pizza.

That was among the indiscretions revealed in a new “oral history” of Bill Clinton’s presidency, based on 79 taped interviews between Mr Clinton and the historian Taylor Branch in late night visits to the White House family quarters.

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Mr Clinton also told of how a late night drinking binge by Mr Yeltsin during a visit to Washington in 1995 almost ended in an international incident when the Russian President, dressed only in his underwear, was found in the street by US Secret Service agents.

“The next night, Yeltsin eluded security forces again when he climbed down back stairs to the Blair House basement,” the newspaper added.

“A building guard took Yeltsin for a drunken intruder until Russian and US agents arrived on the scene and rescued him.”

Can you really picture Vladimir Putin letting loose like that ?

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One Response to “Things Really Were More Fun In Washington When Clinton Was President”

  1. Scandia says:

    No guys like that any more. Remember the picture of Yeltsin letting loose on stage with some pretty women?

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