Lyndon Johnson's Camel Driver - UI Podcast #043

Useless Information Podcast

Airwave Media Podcast Network

Society & Culture, Comedy, History

4.6 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 14 April 2011

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

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. Retrosponsor: Squibb Dental Creme. https://uselessinformation.org/lyndon-johnsons-camel-driver-podcast-43/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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