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Lyndon Johnson's Camel Driver - UI Podcast #043
Season 4 · Episode 43

Lyndon Johnson's Camel Driver - UI Podcast #043

U.S. Vice President Lyndon Johnson invites camel driver named Bashir Ahmad to the United States.

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April 14, 201128m 30s

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Show Notes

On May 20, 1961, then-US Vice President Lyndon Johnson was on a goodwill tour of Asia. While pressing the flesh in Karachi, Pakistan, Johnson had a casual conversation with a camel driver named Bashir Ahmad. The next thing you know, Bashir was on his way to the United States in the feel-good news story of 1961. 

Also, find out what everyday product Hyman Lipman invented, the Florida councilman frightened by a snake, the New York Aquarium's April Fool problem, and Smell-o-vision. 

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