(Note: This listing is incomplete.
Many organizations with which I have been affiliated in the past are not
included, and by definition those without Web pages are not listed.
URLs change, or are abandoned, from time to time. Those listed below were
correct when entered in June 1996, and when confirmed, May 19, 1998. --
N.J.)
Nicholas Johnson serves on the Executive Board, Board of Directors, or
Advisory Board of a number of non-profit organizations. Some of those with
web sites include:
Hightower and Associates,
Jim Hightower is extremely bright, compassionate, and very, very funny
-- and one of the few radio commentators left of Rush Limbaugh
Although there is no formal relationship, the following are some of the
web sites for other organizations with which he currently has some tie,
or has worked, or otherwise supported in one way or another, in the past:
Adbusters, a publication
and project of The Media Foundation
Advocacy Institute,
which provides all-purpose counsel to public interest organizations, was
started by former FTC Chair Michael Pertschuk and former Common Cause President
David Cohen. This site contains current and back copies of the Institute's
publication, "Tobacco News."
AlterNet, a project of the Institute
for Alternative Journalism
American Bar Association, to which
Nicholas Johnson belongs, runs a program called CEELI
(for Central and East European Law Initiative), for which he worked on
media law with the Parliament of Georgia (Former Soviet Union), during
February-March 1998.
American Radio Relay League is the national
association of radio amateurs (or "ham radio operators") with which the
Iowa City Amateur Radio Club
is affiliated. Nicholas Johnson is the "extra class" operator of
amateur radio station N0EAJ and a member of both organizations.
Association of Progressive Communications,
which includes online services such as PeaceNet, and maintains at its web
site the "Institute for Global Communications Progressive Directory" with
links to numerous progressive organizations
(Nicholas Johnson served in the Administration of President Jimmy Carter
as a Presidential Advisor for the 1979 White House Conference on Libraries
and Information Sciences (WHCLIS). There does not seem to be a web site
for the National Commission on Libraries and Information Sciences (NCLIS),
but any web search engine will produce sites for a number of its publications.
Democratic National Committee.
Nicholas Johnson formerly served as a Presidential appointee in the administrations
of Democratic Presidents Johnson and Carter, and on the board of the DNC's
Harriman Communications Center. He has run in Democratic primaries for
the U.S. Senate and House from Iowa, served on the Executive Committee
of the Johnson County [Iowa] Democrats, and as Precinct Co-Chair for Johnson
County Precinct 1.
Johnson,
President Lyndon B. provided Nicholas Johnson (no relation) with his
first two Presidential appointments, as U.S. Maritime Administrator and
Commissioner, Federal Communications Commission. This link goes to the
LBJ Library in Austin, Texas, where some of the papers relating to those
terms of service are housed.
(David Loundy was an outstanding Law of Electronic Media student at the
UI College of Law who has gone on to make a career of his expertise in
the field. His web site is one of the best available sources of "E-Law"
-- both that which has been written by him and links to sources elsewhere.
He and Nicholas Johnson have co-authored a two-volume casebook, Law of
Electronic Media in a Cyberspace Age, first used at the UI College of Law,
Fall 1996.)
Maritime Administration (MARAD (where
Nicholas Johnson served as U.S. Maritime
Administrator from 1964-1966 during the Administration of President
Lyndon B. Johnson -- at which time MARAD was a part of the U.S. Department
of Commerce)
(Among Ralph Nader's many commendable qualities is one that is often overlooked:
the absence of ego and need for "control" that enables him not only to
come up with innovative solutions for social ills, and imaginative ways
to attract talent and fund organizations, but the psychological ability
to spin them off, once they are up and running. "essential.org" is one
of his creations that maintains this site which provides a collection of
links to a partial listing of the dozens of organizations that are in his
debt for one reason or another. Other sites include the unofficial Ralph
Nader for President Page, and a sampling of Ralph
Nader's Writings -- which are pages maintained by others.)
PC DOC,Gregory P. Johnson,
the Personal Computer Doctor, is Nicholas Johnson's son
United States Supreme Court
(Nicholas Johnson served as law clerk to Supreme Court Justice Hugo L.
Black, 1959-1960)
Wired Magazine, including full text
of Nicholas Johnson article
World Academy of
Art and ScienceWorld Academy of Art and Science, Harlan Cleveland,
President (Nicholas Johnson is a "Fellow" of the Academy, and served on
its Executive Committee 1993-97)
Nicholas Johnson has been associated with a number of universities over
the course of his lifetime.
He was literally born on a university campus, the University
of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics in Iowa City, Iowa, the son of Edna and
Wendell Johnson (for whom the Wendell
Johnson Speech and Hearing Clinic is named). He was an early entrant,
at age 2, in the University of Iowa's
experimental schools: the Iowa Child Welfare Research Clinic, University
Elementary School, and University High School ("U-High") -- where he delivered
the last commencement address in 1972. (Each of these institutions is now
closed).
From 1986-1991 he was a member of the faculty of Western Behavioral Sciences
Institute, and its International Executive Forum (online computer adult
education), which in its later years was affiliated with the University
of California, San Diego.