| − | After his 1972 reelection, President Nixon recruited Johnson to serve in either the [[United States Department of Housing and Urban Development]], which [[George W. Romney]] of [[Michigan]] was vacating as the secretary, or in the Farmers Home Administration. He chose the FmHA and relocated from Arkansas to Arlington, Virginia. With the inauguration of [[Jimmy Carter]] of [[Georgia]], however, Johnson lost the position and returned to private life and worked in [[Arlington, Texas|Arlington]], Texas (not Virginia). He returned to the FmHA with the inauguration of [[Ronald W. Reagan]], whom he supported in 1980, and was named the deputy administrator for program operations under [[United States Secretary of Agriculture]] [[John Block]] of [[Illinois]]. In this capacity, Johnson was often called to testify before U.S. congressional committees and developed a good working relationship with former governor and then Senator Dale Bumpers, who had unseated Rockefeller in 1970 and [[J. William Fulbright]] in 1974. | + | After his 1972 reelection, President Nixon recruited Johnson to serve in either the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development, which [[George Romney]] of [[Michigan]] was vacating as the secretary, or in the Farmers Home Administration. He chose the FmHA and relocated from Arkansas to Arlington, Virginia. With the inauguration of [[Jimmy Carter]] of Georgia, however, Johnson lost the position and returned to private life and worked in [[Arlington, Texas|Arlington]], Texas (not Virginia). He returned to the FmHA with the inauguration of [[Ronald W. Reagan]], whom he supported in 1980, and was named the deputy administrator for program operations under [[United States Secretary of Agriculture]] John Block of [[Illinois]]. In this capacity, Johnson was often called to testify before U.S. congressional committees and developed a good working relationship with former governor and then Senator Dale Bumpers, who had unseated Rockefeller in 1970 and [[J. William Fulbright]] in 1974. |
| | + | In 1990, under then President [[George Herbert Walker Bush]] and with an endorsement from then U.S. Senator [[Phil Gramm]] of Texas, Johnson became the state FmHA director, based in Temple in Bell County, Texas, a position that he held until April 1993, when the Democrat [[Bill Clinton]], the governor of Arkansas who unseated the first President Bush in 1992, replaced Johnson at the FmHA.<ref name=statement/> Thereafter, Johnson was employed through 2006 in Temple as the executive vice president of the Rural Rental Housing Association, an agency that finances housing in rural areas.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.fairhousingsolutions.com/testimonials.htm|title=Fair Housing testimonials|publisher=fairhousingsolutions.com|accessdate=August 8, 2011}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.corporationwiki.com/Texas/Temple/neal-sox-johnson/31609798.aspx|title=Neal Johnson|publisher=corporationwiki.com|accessdate=June 15, 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.fairhousingsolutions.com/testimonials.html|title=A Few Comments from Trainees at Past Sessions|publisher=fairhousingsolutions.com|accessdate=June 15, 2012}}</ref> |
| − | In 1990, under then President [[George Herbert Walker Bush]] and with an endorsement from then U.S. Senator [[Phil Gramm]] of Texas, Johnson became the state FmHA director, based in Temple in Bell County, Texas, a position that he held until April 1993, when the Democrat [[Bill Clinton]], the governor of Arkansas who unseated the first President Bush in 1992, replaced Johnson at the FmHA.<ref name=statement/> Thereafter, Johnson was employed through 2006 in Temple as the executive vice president of the Rural Rental Housing Association, an agency that finances housing in rural areas.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.fairhousingsolutions.com/testimonials.htm|title=Fair Housing testimonials|publisher=fairhousingsolutions.com|accessdate=August 8, 2011}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.corporationwiki.com/Texas/Temple/neal-sox-johnson/31609798.aspx|title=Neal Johnson|publisher=corporationwiki.com|accessdate=June 15, 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.fairhousingsolutions.com/testimonials.html|title=A Few Comments from Trainees at Past Sessions|publisher=fairhousingsolutions.com|accessdate=June 15, 2012}}</ref>
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