Boris Yeltsin got so drunk during a 1995 visit to Washington that Secret Service agents found him a few hundred feet from the White House clad only in his underwear and trying to hail a cab — because, he explained, he wanted a pizza.
That is one of the stories in Bill Clinton’s book about his time in the White House, it may make good copy and is certainly a good yarn but I don’t for a second believe it to be true.
The supposed Yeltsin incident came after one of the former Russian President’s late-night drinking sessions. On the night in question, he was staying at Blair House, the guest quarters for foreign leaders visiting Washington, which sits directly across from the White House in Pennsylvania Avenue.
He managed to give his Secret Service detail the slip. Frantically looking for him, they found him in his underwear on Pennsylvania Avenue trying to get a taxi. He explained in slurred words that he wanted a pizza.
Considering that American Presidents are the most closely guarded people in the world, and having the then second most powerful man in the world visiting I would have thought a fly could not have got out of the accommodation that night without being seen let alone a drunk Russian in Y fronts.
Also what about Yeltsins own security detail was there no-one outside his door, that is basic security, also there would have been guards on every exit and CCTV covering every inch of Blair house.
So nice try Bill, I will allow you a little artistic licence for being so entertaining whist in office but that wont make me buy your book, explain how you got rid of Hilary each time you wanted to cheat with Monica and that might shift a few extra copies.
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