EILEEN O'CONNOR, CNN CORRESPONDENT: At the beginning, Gorbachev had promoted Yeltsin to be the head of the Communist Party in Moscow, and Yeltsin had become sort of a bigger reformer than Gorbachev, and in fact a more popular leader locally in Moscow than Mikhail Gorbachev, and that bothered Gorbachev. And also, the fact that Boris Yeltsin was enacting so many reforms, getting rid of all this dead wood in the Communist Party organization in Moscow ruffled a lot of feathers. So, at a previous party conference, Boris Yeltsin had been basically unceremoniously dumped out of the Communist Party, and I was there as he walked out of the Kremlin, and he was, you could tell, furious and also bitter. And -- but and very, though, wounded. And his pride was clearly hurt, and he was going to show Gorbachev, I think, another meaning of democracy, which was that he could get elected president of Russia and he would oppose Gorbachev, even though Gorbachev was much more powerful. And it was incredible that, even though there was all these forces within the Communist Party who were opposed to him, he still won that election. It is like going against all of the establishment figures in our own Democratic or Republic Party, or in any political party around the world, and yet, he still won it.
CNN 20: Yeltsin Elected President, May 29, 1990