Original upload date: Wed, 12 Jan 2011 00:00:00 GMT
Archive date: Tue, 21 Dec 2021 03:52:11 GMT
September 12, 1989. Boris Yeltsin visits Johns Hopkins on his first trip to the U.S.
In 1989 Boris Yeltsin came to Baltimore as part of an eleven-city tour with The Johns Hopkins University as hos
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t. This visit would later be considered a public relations disaster.
Yeltsin's behavior was reported as erratic and unpredictable (apparently he spent quite a boisterous night at the Nichols House), seemingly to slur his words during this appearance.
The videotape, recorded at a press conference on the Homewood Campus, found its way back to the homeland and was broadcast to an amazed Soviet public, adding to an already tarnished reputation and growing discontent.
