From The Clinton Interviews: A Drunken Boris Yeltsin On Pennsylvania Ave.

Fmr. Russian Pres. Boris Yeltsin
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In a new book recounting 79 taped interviews with President Clinton while he was in office, author Taylor Branch has bestowed us with some gems, such as this one about Boris Yeltsin’s drinking:

Yeltsin was visiting Washington in 1995 when, late at night, Secret Service agents found the Russian president stripped to his underwear and trying to hail a cab on Pennsylvania Avenue. He wanted a pizza, he slurred.

USA Today reporter Susan Page unearthed the Yeltsin bit. The Clinton Tapes: Wrestling History with the President is based on the secret interviews between old friends Branch and Clinton — the tapes of which Clinton kept hidden in his sock drawer.

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