Martin Johnson

… etary Thompson keeps pushing the President to appoint me and the President defers to Clay Johnson, Director of White House Personnel, who has actually never interviewed me. I get word indirectly from Scott Whitaker, Bob Charrow and others that there really is a politica …

… as sequestered in “the bunker” for security reasons) and tells me that he spoke with Clay Johnson today and Johnson told him that he was going to recommend someone else and not me to the President. Thompson was clearly very angry and sad. I am more convinced now that th …

… o to the Annual Alphalfa Dinner at the Capitol Hilton as a Guest of Robert Wood (“Woody”) Johnson IV.. Amazing scene! Virtually every important government official (the entire Cabinet, military leaders, etc) was there. At the reception, I met Barbara Bush who was very w …

… Club dinner in Washington, D.C. Spent time speaking with President Bush, Karl Rove, Clay Johnson, Donna Shalala, Tim Russert, Sam Donaldson, John Neroponte, Cokie Roberts, etc. The topic was often concern and dismay on the part of people (non-White House) that Bush was …

… and Ray McGrath, Scott Evertz of the White House, Congresswomen Barbara Lee (D-CA) and EB Johnson (D-TX), Michael Miller of NSC, Anne Peterson of USAID, Bill Roper and others. April 25-30, 2002 – During the trip to South Africa, I spent about 1 ½ hours at dinner trying …

… Had nice chats with John Gordon (chief of HSC), Tom Ridge, Josh Bolten, Carol Kuntz, Clay Johnson and many others.

… e late afternoon, I showed around the NIH Michael Gerson who was with Miss America Nicole Johnson Baker and her husband Scott Baker. He was visiting the NIH to look around and get a feel for the place. We presented an HIV-infected IL-2 patient (Terry Brown) and discusse …

… retaries today on Pandemic Flu. Briefed Sec. of VA Jim Nicholson, EPA Administrator Steve Johnson and Treasury Secretary Snow. Got an e-mail from Fran Townsend of HSC who mentioned that the President has mentioned that he always feels more comfortable when he knows that …

… IH Director. This is what I agreed upon with Tommy Thompson 6 years ago, but the WH (Clay Johnson) blocked it and said that I could take one or the other. I picked NIAID Director. I actually do not think that doing both jobs would work, mainly because people would jump …

… . Interesting evening with a lot of friendly discussions about the Obama transition. Clay Johnson of OMB was there and said a few words about the Bush Administration and told the large dinner crowd that we are leaving the government and the country better than we found …

Gave my Nifty-Fifty Lecture on a “Career in Public Service” TO Walter Johnson High School in Bethesda. It was fun since the students were so engaged with me.

… l (filmed for TV) was on the science and real world of HIV/AIDS. My co-panelist was Magic Johnson. It was a fun experience. He is a wonderful guy with an amazingly infectious smile. He commented to the audience during the panel that he wanted to go on a “road show” with …

Interesting telephone call with Paul Stoffels today. Paul is CEO of Johnson and Johnson that owns Janssen Pharmacueticals as well as Crucell. He is excited about the Dan Barouch HIV candidate using Adenovirus 26/35 + MVA boost and wants to develop …

… ng today. Paul Stoffels, Chief Scientific Officer of Janssen research Foundation, part of Johnson & Johnson called me months ago asking to have a meeting since he wanted to support and develop the Ad26 vector – HIV mosaic insert vaccine candidate of Dan Barouch. I have …

… 963. However, as we know, sadly he was assassinated on November 23, 1963. Pres. Lyndon B. Johnson went ahead and conferred the medals one month after the death of Pres. Kennedy. He conferred the Medal to Pres. Kennedy post-humously and gave it to Jacqueline Kennedy who …

… sxs. Sylvia asked me to be on conference call discussing this with Lisa Monaco, Sec. Jay Johnson of DHS, Leslie Dach, Jennifer Palmieri of White House Comms and NSC Rand Beers and Ned Price. Decision on first call was to find out the clinical judgment of the hospital s …

Jey Johnson, Secertary of DHS, announces that all flights from Liberia, Sierra leone and Guinea must now enter the USA at one of the 5 designated airports (O’Hare, Newark, IAD, JFK and …

… dministrator Rajiv Shah, Attyorney General Eric Holder, Amb. Samantha Power, DHS Sec. Jeh Johnson, Amb. Powell from the Department of State, Presidential Counsel Eggleston, Valerie Jarrett, Larry Kerr, among others. The discussions centered around modifying the guidelin …

… Anthony Fauci, Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease • Jeh Johnson, Secretary of Homeland Secretary • Denis McDonough, Assistant to the President and Chief of Staff • Shaun Donovan, Director of the Office of Management and Budget • Amb. Sa …

… e able to be done by Skype or Face Time. However, Ron Klain thinks that the POTUS and Jeh Johnson want actual physical presence of monitor (health official, nurse, etc.). Trying to reconcile. Had important conversation with Jen Cohn of MSF Switzerland who kindly got on …

… awsuit against Pres. Obama, me, Thomas Friedman, Secretary Burwell, and DHH Secretary Jeh Johnson for promoting terrorism and discrimination. They are accusing us of colluding with president Obama who is a Muslim citizen of Kenya and trying to destroy African countries …

… chaired by Barbara Mikulski with Richard Shelby as Ranking Minority. Sylvia Burwell, Jeh Johnson (DHS), Michael Lumpkin (DoD), Heather Higginbottom (DoS) testified and then accompanying witnesses went to the Table. Tom Frieden and I were the “accompanying” witnesses fo …

… the trip since my back is hurting badly and also because the president of Liberia (Ellen Johnson Sirleaf) is visiting HHS and I need to be there to help greet her. Measles still in the press. Will discuss live tonight on BBC TV with Katty Kay

… at IAD. Went to Humphrey Building today at 8:00 AM to meet with Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf. Hosted by Sylvia Burwell. Her staff included Liberian Minister to the USA, among others. On our side was Peggy Hamburg, Cliff Lane, Francis Collins, Tom Kenyon (CD …

… Great guests including Vernon Jordan and his wife Ann; David Petraeus and wife Molly, Jim Johnson and his date Heather (?), Buffy Cafritz. Interesting discussions by Jordan on the political arena of Hilary Clinton and her candidacy. Petraeus spoke about the ISIS treat, …

… ad meeting at HHS in Room 305A in Humphrey Building with the Presidents of Liberia (Ellen Johnson Sirleaf), Sierra Leone (Ernest Koroma) and Guinea (Alpha Conde) to discuss the status of the Ebola outbreak. Much good will with expressions of cooperation and collaboratio …

… t Journal. President Obama gave good comedy show followed by Saturday Night Live’s Cecily Johnson. She was not particularly funny, but OK.

… about 25 minutes saying that we left out the UK because of Trumps relationship with Boris Johnson. She is completely incorrect. UKwas not part of Schengen. She did not care. She said that I have lost all of my credibility now by saying that I said this was a public heal …

… this looks in public. The modern exception- illustrating-the-rule might have been Lyndon Johnson, with enough of the Sun King in his makeup to enjoy having people humble themselves before him. But holding a public adulation-fest? If George W. Bush had heard, say, Karl …

… reat success. In afternoon, HHS (with Paul Mango, Alex Azar, Bob Kadlec, Peter Marks, Bob Johnson, Francis Collins, Bruce Tromberg) presented our new vaccine strategic plan to the TF led by Deb Birx. Deb immediately tore everything apart (somewhat overly done). Poor Pet …

… Harrison Ford And Lincoln Project Back Anthony Fauci, Advocate Firing Donald Trump By Ted Johnson, Dominic Patten

… came, And he whistled, and shouted, and called them by name: “Now Pfizer! Now Sanofi! Now Johnson & Johnson! “On Moderna! On BioNTech! On Adaptive and Amgen! To the top of the porch! To the top of the wall! Now vaccinate, vaccinate, vaccinate all!” As a virus expelled b …

… came, And he whistled, and shouted, and called them by name: “Now Pfizer! Now Sanofi! Now Johnson & Johnson! “On Moderna! On BioNTech! On Adaptive and Amgen! To the top of the porch! To the top of the wall! Now vaccinate, vaccinate, vaccinate all!” As a virus expelled b …

… Kutcher, Amy Poehler, Lily Tomlin, Sophia Bush, Matthew McConaughey, Steve Buscemi, Magic Johnson, Joan Baez, and many others. It was very moving. Situation unchanged. Still outrage that Trump is messing up the relief bill. Harmony Foundation gave me: Top US doctor amon …

… .7 variant; BBC Radio; “What a Day” podcast; CNN Sports TV with Charles Barkley and Ernie Johnson; Univision TV interview; Axios TV for HBO – update with Margaret Talev Nice article in Vogue: For Dr. Anthony Fauci and Dr. Christine Grady, Love Conquers All By Michelle R …

… 0/510,800 Big topic on the Sunday shows (see below) was the EUA Issued by the FDA for the Johnson and Johnson adeno virus vaccine. Also, there is concern that I expressed about easing up on prevention modalities since the decreasing slope up infections is starting to sh …

… izer), Alex Gorsky (J & J). PRESS: CNN “New Day” with John Berman; Interview with Carolyn Johnson of the Washington Post; Instagram with Eugenio Derbez (Mexican-American entertainer) Historical comparison of the vaccine efforts of Trump versus Biden in NY Times article …

… the Press” with Chick Todd; ABC “This Week” with George Stephanopoulos; MSNBC with Joshua Johnson; Wall Street Journal: China, Fauci and the Origins of Covid Did the virus come from a Chinese lab funded by the celebrated doctor’s U.S. government institute?

… scredit me Cases continue to climb: PRESS: MSNBC – “The Reid Out”; Peacock MSNBC – Joshua Johnson; CBS Evening news; NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt;

… ial Board; Zoom Call with Michael Spector for his adio-book; MSNBC peacock TV with Joshua Johnson