Getting his begin on the Macon Telegraph, Tom Johnson additionally served as White House deputy press secretary for LBJ.
On Sept. 24, 2024, NCS CEO Mark Thompson met with former NCS president Tom Johnson on the Midtown Turner campus in Atlanta for the revealing of the NCS brand beforehand at NCS Center for greater than 25 years. (Contributed)
By Jeff Calder
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When it got here to Macon’s wealthy and poor within the Nineteen Forties and 50s, Tom Johnson’s household was on the decrease aspect of the in-between. His dad, he writes, offered “watermelons and wood” from a pickup truck; his mother, the breadwinner, clerked at their relations’ grocery retailer the place Johnson himself stocked the cabinets.
A tough-working teen, he made certain the product labels have been correctly displayed, simply as, a couple of years later, the every day notes he scribbled as President Lyndon Johnson’s deputy press secretary could be meticulously organized. Sixty years on, they might serve him effectively as a major supply for his memoir, “Driven: A Life in Public Service and Journalism from LBJ to NCS.”
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“Driven: A Life in Public Service and Journalism from LBJ to NCS” by Tom Johnson. (Courtesy of UGA Press)
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In 2015, former UGA classmate and NCS president Tom Johnson offered the Atlanta Press Club Lifetime Achievement Award to Charlayne Hunter-Gault. (Rodney Ho/AJC)
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