Boris Yeltsin Quotes
One could see that what you are writing was that today's meeting was a disaster. Now, for the first time, I can tell you that you are a disaster.
Boris Yeltsin, 1931-2007, Mayor, Moscow (Russia), President, Russian Republic, Addressing reporters in the United States, October 1995
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In those days the party bosses picked the Vice Presidential nominee, and they picked Nixon. As the President got to know his running made, his dislike developed. In Nixon’s entire tenure as Vice President he was never invited to the private presidential quarters of the White House for a meeting or a social occasion. Eisenhower, who loved golf and played with many politicians of both parties and many celebrities would never play golf with Nixon. In part, these types of snubs and insults, were the forerunner of the later Nixon hatred of the American establishments that was revealed by the Nixon tapes.
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Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin was a Russian and former Soviet politician who served as the first President of Russia from 1991 to 1999. A member of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1961 to 1990, he later stood as a political independent, during which time he was viewed as being ideologically aligned with conservatism and Russian nationalism.
