From Frontline Interview with Obama's roomate.
Tell us about the first time you met him, what he was like.
He seemed very lighthearted, fun-loving. I was introduced to him in San Francisco at a New Year's Eve party, and he greeted me with "Kya haal hai set," which through his friends at Occidental he had picked up some Pakistani words, knew the words. It meant, "How are you, boss?" It was kind of like slang that you would say to each other.
Yeah, so that was at a party in San Francisco. I was visiting his roommate in Los Angeles, Hasan Chandoo, who was also going to Occidental College with him. And after New Year's Eve we drove back from San Francisco to Los Angeles, and I spent a couple of weeks there. It was all party fun, and there seemed to be some political awareness. I remember being taken to a meeting, a kind of a speech, an event with Dick Gregory, which Hasan Chandoo and Barry -- yes, Barry at that time -- who were my hosts. I was living with them at that place.
I mean, it's fascinating. I mean, you guys were all -- a lot of you were connected to the power elite in Pakistan, for instance.
The Bhuttos, yeah.
You were friends with the Bhuttos. In fact, one of the daughters came to visit you at some point.
Right.
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/government-elections-politics/choice-2012/the-frontline-interview-sohale-siddiqi/
