We don’t know if it rates a “Wow,” but White House documents covering meetings and phone calls between Bill Clinton and Boris Yeltsin have been released and posted online.
Wow. Without fanfare, a comprehensive archive of White House documents covering nearly all of Bill Clinton’s meetings and phone calls with Boris Yeltsin from 1993-1999 has been declassified and is now online. https://t.co/OyW6R2bqUX 1/ pic.twitter.com/sMZanglzjs
— Andrew S. Weiss (@andrewsweiss) August 30, 2018
Andrew Weiss goes on quite a bit exploring the contents of the archives, but the whole thing reminded NBC News’ Andrea Mitchell of one particular anecdote.
Food was a thing for them: Some of us watched @BillClinton take Yeltsin to lunch at Filomena's in Georgetown and consume 1000's of calories not counting the cake box they brought back to the White House. @MaureenDowd checked the menu and calculated the calorie count @nytimes https://t.co/GiHW9RJMea
— Andrea Mitchell (@mitchellreports) August 30, 2018
She would.
— Girl Geek for Gavelmania (@girlgeek_rva) August 30, 2018
So Maureen Dowd was fact-checking the calorie count? And we’re just finding this out now? What was it?
Soooo, y'all have been this annoying for a while. https://t.co/dcIf7zw4UZ
— Cuffy (@CuffyMeh) August 30, 2018
You know they both probably consider Clinton’s poor diet the biggest of his scandals.
https://twitter.com/EF517_V3/status/1035297474133540865
Great job, Andrea! This is precisely the type of hard hitting news that America wants to hear. ?
— OregonMuse (@OregonMuse) August 30, 2018
https://twitter.com/Rbrbndgrl/status/1035290116145799169
MoDo always focused on the REAL news!
— Dennis P. O'Brien (@npanxx) August 30, 2018
Hard hitting report, there. Calorie count ?♂️
— Still like beer ? (@UVIL1991) August 30, 2018
It’s nice to remember the days before “fake news” had taken root and only pros like this were on the job.
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— Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) June 5, 2018
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