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'''Clay Johnson III''' has served as Deputy Director for Management at the [[Office of Management and Budget]] since 2003. Prior, he served as Assistant to the President for Presidential Personnel and Deputy to the Chief of Staff in the [[Bush administration|first administration ]] of President [[George W. Bush]]. <ref>[http://www.whitehouse.gov/government/cjohnson-bio.html Bio: Clay Johnson III,] Deputy Director for ManagementOffice of Management and Budget, WhiteHouse.gov, accessed August 27, 2007.</ref>

Johnson served is rumored to be the replacement as Governor George WDirector of [[U.S. Bush's chief Department of staff in Austin from June 1999Homeland Security|Homeland Security]] for [[Michael Chertoff], and had been his appointments director from 1995-99. Johnson was CEO of the Dallas Museum of Art from 1992-94 and President of the Horchow Collectionwho is, a mail order catalogue division of Neiman Marcushimself, from 1983-91; he was marketing director 1981-82. Johnson has also worked rumored to be the replacement for Frito-Lay and Wilson Sporting Goods. Johnson and Bush were classmates at both Yale University and Attorney General [[Phillips Academy in AndoverAlberto Gonzales]], who resigned August 27, 2007, effective September 17, 2007. <ref>[http://wwwthinkprogress.gwu.eduorg/2007/08/~action27/buildbioclay-johnson-dhs/ "CNN: Bush Plans To Install Inexperienced, Bush Loyalist Clay Johnson At Homeland Security,"] ''Think Progress'', August 27, 2007.html]</ref>

Johnson and George W. Bush share a long relationship. They were classmates at both Yale University and [[Phillips Academy in Andover]], Massachusetts. Johnson was Governor Bush's chief of staff in Austin, Texas, from June 1999. He had served as his appointments director from 1995-99.<ref name="GWU">[http://www.gwu.edu/~action/buildbio.html "Building the New Administration. ...White House Staff 'Starting Lineup' Biographies A to Z,"] George Washington University, last accessed August 27, 2007.</ref> ==Controversy==*Budget accountability: In June 2005, Comptroller General [[David M. Walker]] and Johnson "testified that federal spending growth looms as a major problem".<ref>Keith Miller and Alison Acosta Fraser, [http://www.heritage.org/Research/Budget/wm774.cfm "Awakening to the Need for Budget Accountability,"] [[Heritage Foundation]], June 24, 2005.</ref>*[[Chickenhawk]]: "While volunteering for active-duty military service was unusual in 1966, it was practically unheard of by 1968. A Bush roommate, Clay Johnson III, could think of only one close Yale acquaintance who served in Vietnam."<ref> Michael Dobbs and Lois Romano, [http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A36801-2004Oct15?language=printer "For the Candidates, Vietnam Choices Linger,"] ''Washington Post'', October 16, 2004.</ref>*Data security and breach notification policy::*"Having a proper breach notification system is important, but the OMB would certainly prefer that breaches not happen in the first place. To that end, Johnson suggests a policy not often heard in government or business: reduce the volume of information collected 'to the minimum necessary.'"<ref>Nate Anderson, [http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070524-shock-and-awe-federal-government-to-collect-less-personal-data.html "Federal government to collect less data, safeguard it better,"] ''ars technica'', May 24, 2007.</ref>:*[[Social Security]] number breaches.<ref>Stephen Barr, [http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/05/23/AR2007052301546.html "OMB Moves to Safeguard Social Security Numbers,"] ''Washington Post'', May 24, 2007.</ref> ==Profiles=="Johnson was CEO of the Dallas Museum of Art from 1992-94 and President of the Horchow Collection, a mail order catalogue division of Neiman Marcus, from 1983-91; he was marketing director 1981-82. Johnson has also worked for Frito-Lay and Wilson Sporting Goods."<ref name="GWU"/> ==Resources and articles=====Related SourceWatch Resourcesarticles===*[[Bush administration cronyism and incompetence]]