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Much of the career of '''Michael Johns''' has been spent working in corporate health care. He has worked for the pharmaceutical transnational [[Eli Lilly]], in the health care practice of a leading Philadelphia consulting firm and, since 2000, as vice president of [[Gentiva Health Services]], a Fortune 1000 corporation. As part of Gentiva senior management, Johns helped lead a quintupling of the company's market capitalization and one of the largest corporate health care acquisitions in recent years [http://www.biospace.com/news_story.cfm?StoryID=7420415&full=1]. He also has defended the interests of publicly-traded companies, including as a founding member of the influential CEO Council.

In January 2001, during Johns's tenure at Gentiva, his employer lost an Ohio-based age-discrimination suitfiled in 1998 against the company's former parent company. Damages Because Gentiva had indemnified their former parent company as part of a previous split-off from the parent company, an Ohio jury levied damages of $30m were awarded against Gentiva by the jury. A report at the time quoted Johns as saying, "We are not pleased - and in fact, are shocked - at the size of the jury verdict" [http://www.homecaremag.com/mag/medical_suit_cost_gentiva/]; the case was subsequently settled for an undisclosed sum[http://gentiva.com/news/read_press.asp?pressid=160].

Indeed, Johns was an enthusiastic advocate for the [[Contras]]contras. In a 1988 article for [[The World and I]], Johns he described the Contras contras as "the largest armed resistance movement since the Mexican Revolution", and went on to describe them as "Nicaragua's democratic resistance". [http://www.worldandicollege.com/special_report/1988/july/college-resource14220.asp]

Johns has worked at the conservative [[Heritage Foundation]] and with leading figures on the American right. However, he has also been tapped by moderate Republicans, including former New Jersey Governor [[Thomas H. Kean]], U.S. Senator [[Olympia Snowe]] and former President [[George H.W. Bush]] (for whom he served as a White House speechwriter). In the first Bush White House, he helped define and advocate some of the policies that have come to be known as "compassionate conservatism," focusing on outreach to low and middle-income Americans and non-traditional Republican constituencies. ==Michael Johns's visit to a UNITA training camp in Angola==

==Supporting Reagan's Policy in Angola== During the late 1980s and early 1990s, Johns was a key player in securing continued United States support for the UNITA rebels of [[Jonas Savimbi]]. On at least one occasion, Johns visited a UNITA training camp in the Angolan bush. The visit was revealed in an article by Johns about Angola, that was quoted by [[Dan Burton]] (R -Indiana) in the House of Representatives in 1989. In it Johns says, "Savimbi told conservative leader [[Howard Phillips]] and me last March during a visit to Savimbi's headquarters in the Angolan bush, 'there are a lot of loopholes in [the Angola/Namibia agreement]. The agreement is not good at all.'" [http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?r101:E26OC9-320:] In October 1990, Representative Don Ritter (R-Pennsylvania) used an analysis by Michael Johns to support his opposition to HR 5422. This resolution sought to cut aid to UNITA. In his analysis, Johns wrote "In Angola, where a civil war has raged for 15 years between the country's Soviet-backed Marxist regime and an American-supported resistance movement, peace and freedom are now within sight." He concluded: "American assistance to UNITA continues to be the only hope for peace and freedom in Angola." [http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/D?r101:14:./temp/~r101emd8uh::] In the event, following its electoral failure in 1992 UNITA resumed its armed insurgency, which was only brought to an end by the death of Savimbi in an ambush in February 2002 [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UNITA].

*Inducted into University of Miami's Iron Arrow Honor Society [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_Arrow_Honor_Society], 1984.

* [[Jonas Savimbi]]

*[http://www.worldandi.com/specialreport/1988/february/Sa13957.htm "Cambodia at a Crossroads,"] by Michael Johns.

*''Hmong Studies Journal'' cites "Acts of Betrayal," by Michael Johns, ''[[National Review]]'', October 23, 1995 [http://members.aol.com/hmongstudiesjrnl/HSJ-v2n2_Research.html]. * "[http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=1999%40ccnysci.UUCP&output=gplain "Ethiopian Regime Looks West for Helping Hand,"], ''The Christian Science Monitor," May 16, 1989.