Bikey Smith with Vice President Richard Nixon

Bikey Smith with Vice President Richard Nixon

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Byron (“Bikey”) Smith, age 8, on the lap of Vice President Richard Nixon during a trip to Washington D.C. in 1953. Byron, then a student at the Indiana School for the Blind, was in the capitol with his parents as the guest of a Chicago television show, Welcome Travelers, on which he had recently appeared.

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Byron K. Smith

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