
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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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.
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