The one pedigreed reformer in the senior leadership, Russian Finance Minister Fyodorov , was in Washington at the time and was apparently taken completely by surprise.

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There, apparently the bulk of them proved so completely unobjectionable as to be almost immediately forgotten.

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At the time that I was apparently drunkenly proposing I was in fact performing in a completely different town with a large public audience.

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