Remember the 1990s? Things were pretty awesome back then, I think we all would agree.
The world just isn't the same anymore. Case in point:
"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."
Honestly, I'm tempted to buy Taylor Branch's new book on the Clinton years in the White House just to find out more about that particular incident. For now, I'll settle for these details:
"The 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."
Somehow, I just can't see a meeting between Obama and Medvedev (or Putin) ending like that.
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