Four sources familiar with Johnson's meetings told CNN the ambassador hosted official gatherings at a posh men's-only club in London, the centuries-old, exclusive White's. Eventually Johnson was told by another diplomat at the embassy in late that he had to stop holding those meetings, three of the sources said.
None of the embassy's female diplomats would have been able to attend. Three sources said Johnson has described women in offensive and diminishing ways. Pompeo says more rights don't mean more justice as he unveils human rights report. According to one source, at certain public events, Johnson would start his remarks by quipping about how many pretty women were present -- reducing them to decorative objects in a way a source described as "just sort of cringeworthy.
Two sources said the ambassador indicated he preferred working with women, but he suggested that was because women were cheaper and worked harder than men. He would also comment on the way that the women in the embassy were dressed, two sources told CNN. Those sources said that it was a struggle to get Johnson on board with an event for International Women's Day, which is also widely commemorated at embassies worldwide.
One source said he asked why he had to do "a feminist event. A team at the embassy tried to get Johnson to do an event around gender-based violence in November , this source said, to which the ambassador replied that he was not interested because he's "not a woman.
Speaking at a reception a few days after an event on breast cancer research the embassy held in collaboration with Estee Lauder in October , Johnson opened his remarks by saying, "There was a prettier crowd here a few days ago with the ladies in pink and the breast cancer people," according to that source. The 'Deep State'. Johnson's way of operating and the language he used reflected the President's deep distrust of the bureaucracy that supports the executive branch and serves administrations of both parties.
Johnson would say the embassy needed more Republicans in senior positions and described staff there as members of a so-called "Deep State," one of the sources said. Lukens, a career diplomat who served as the ambassador's deputy chief of mission, told GQ Magazine in that after he praised former President Barack Obama for managing a delicate issue in the US relationship with Senegal in remarks to British students in the fall of , Johnson summarily dismissed him.
Johnson accused Lukens of being "a traitor" because of the speech, two sources said, and his ouster was a hit on embassy morale. Diplomats demand Pompeo act on accusations of border mistreatment of minority officers. Among its steps, the bureau said it was committed to holding "toxic leaders accountable through counseling and coaching, as well as refer for formal discipline, when warranted," according to the internal memo seen by CNN.
Ambassador to the United Kingdom. Ambassador Johnson also promoted robust cyber security policies to safeguard the exchange of US intelligence with international partners. Following his diplomatic service, Ambassador Johnson returns to his first passion—football—and resumes his role as chairman of the Jets. During his service abroad, Johnson's brother, Christopher, filled the role of chairman. With President Hymie Elhai, these three comprise the organization's unified approach to build the Jets into a sustained, winning franchise.
Johnson said he gave his brother no advice when he turned over the reins, because Christopher knew what to do. He had been involved with the team since Woody bought it -- he was, in fact, one of the biggest proponents of Woody buying the team in the first place.
That left Woody to watch games on television, usually in the middle of the night, pacing, cheering and screaming alone in the ambassador's residence so he wouldn't wake anybody up. Being an ambassador was so all-consuming for him -- "The job is pretty much every 15 minutes. There's big opportunities and big problems," he said -- that he said it was not hard for him to be disconnected from the team and he talked to his brother about the Jets only very infrequently.
I didn't know what was happening day to day. That might have been for the best. The Jets bottomed out last season, winning just two games, but somehow still angering fans who wanted them to be even worse, so they could have the first overall draft pick and the chance to land quarterback Trevor Lawrence , who was selected by the Jacksonville Jaguars, one spot ahead of the Jets' Zach Wilson.
Johnson returned from London earlier this year, after Christopher had already turned the franchise's page by hiring Robert Saleh as the head coach, pairing him with general manager Joe Douglas, whom Christopher hired in , and team president Hymie Elhai, who had been elevated to that job by Christopher a couple months after Douglas was hired. Johnson said there is plenty of crossover between running a team and running an embassy.
It's all management, and it's all about getting buy-in from the most important people so that everybody is pulling in the same direction. That did not always appear to be how things were functioning in London. Last summer, the State Department's internal watchdog wrote a report that said Johnson had "sometimes made inappropriate or insensitive comments on topics generally considered Equal Employment Opportunity EEO -sensitive, such as religion, sex, or color.
The story made for a few days of ugly headlines back home, but Johnson does not want to discuss details on the record, beyond saying his wife was furious that he was accused and the allegations go against everything he has been about.
He considered them so baseless he has not addressed the accusations with players or coaches. Even in strictly football terms, successful management hasn't been much easier to attain.
A series of shotgun marriages, consultant-advised hires and which-way-is-the-wind-blowing decisions created a franchise that felt perpetually out of sync, with competing agendas sometimes scuttling any hope of progress.
The view from across the pond gave Johnson enough distance to recognize when there wasn't synergy -- his word -- between players and coaches, perhaps more sharply than he would have detected them at close range. In the months since he has returned, Johnson has seen what he believes is a culture change brought about by the brain trust his brother put in place. He has sat in on the morning team meetings Saleh conducts, where the coach delivers brief messages -- life lessons, Johnson calls them -- about things like what it means to be a professional.
What Johnson describes seeing and hearing in the last few months is what he believes has to exist for a team to be successful and which, even by Johnson's own admission, has not been in place for the Jets.
I'm energized. I just think there's harmony in the building I hadn't seen for the first 15 years that I see now. A lot is due to Hymie and Joe and Robert and wanting to include everybody. And realizing that the business side and game-day operations and the marketing side and the media side is all one and the same. It's not them and us. It's the New York Jets and everybody is included, including the groundskeepers. He continued: "If you look at teams that have been successful, all have similar paths to success.
One is continuity. It's hard to do. If things start going off track it's ours to change. That's something you shoot for -- get a team together, particularly getting management and coaching together. I wouldn't have made changes if I had it right.
I'd like to get to the point where I don't have to change. I feel optimistic where we are right now, because I've been to the morning meeting with Robert. Johnson became involved in charitable organizations full time in the s. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. His family has been affected by both lupus and juvenile diabetes, which motivated Mr. Johnson to take a role in raising funds to prevent, treat, and cure autoimmune diseases.
He has led efforts on Capitol Hill and at the National Institutes of Health to increase research funding for lupus, diabetes, and other autoimmune diseases. He also started a research foundation, the Alliance for Lupus Research , after his daughter Jaime was found to have lupus.
The price seemed high for a team with a recent history of game losses, and which finished with a record in Based on the Jets' recent [ when? However, after the project's defeat in , Johnson announced the Jets would move to a new Meadowlands Stadium opening day 10 April co-owned with the Giants.
Johnson served on the NFL Commissioner search committee in which a list of candidates to succeed Paul Tagliabue was narrowed down to the final choice of Roger Goodell. In August , Johnson was asked to testify before a Senate panel about his participation in a sham tax shelter.
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