Caption: Date: 1967 Location: Dhankuta, Dhankuta Description: Carol Laise, the U.S. Ambassador to Nepal, greeting Ratna Bahadur Gurung, the Bada Hakim (Governor General) of the Kosi Zone. President Lyndon B. Johnson had named her ambassador to Nepal in 1966, a position she held until 1973. In January 1967 she married 72-year-old Ambassador at Large Ellsworth Bunker in Kathmandu. Later that year he was named Ambassador to South Vietnam and for nearly the first six years of their marriage they only saw each other monthly, via a special government flight offered by President Johnson as enticement for Bunker to accept the post. Keywords: Brian Cooke, Nepal Photo History Project, Peace Corp Photo History, People, named person
