As Raisa says, jet lag is impartial, hitting capitalists and Marxist-Leninists alike. Still, it was worth it. Raisa upstaged Nancy, and they’re saying I upstaged Ron. Imagine! In the White House, singing “Russian Nights.”
My mentor, Yuri Vladimirovich, would have been proud of me—although he was no slouch himself. It takes genius for the former chairman of our Committee of State Security to get Western media people to believe he is at heart a “closet liberal.” In another way, too, the old man was a genius: psychiatric treatment for “dissidents.” But I think even he would admit that I’ve hit the big time, as our new capitalist friends would say. The Iron Lady herself said all the right things when we met for lunch on my way to the main citadel.
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