Yeltsin grinned while Clinton cried.
The Russian president had just blurted out his unfiltered reaction to American news reporting.
It was October, 1995. Clinton and Yeltsin had just spoken at the United Nations 50th anniversary meeting.
The next day the two presidents got together at Hyde Park, New York for a bilateral meeting followed by a press conference.
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