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Date: 24 December 1971
Special to The New York Times
Amb C H Phillips of UN delegation makes oral protest to Thant over disaccreditation of Nationalist Chinese correspondents
Joseph Edmund Johnson, Baron Johnson of Marylebone (born 23 December 1971) is a British politician and peer who was Minister of State for Universities, Science, Research and Innovation from 2015 to 2018, and from July to September 2019. A member of the Conservative Party, he was Member of Parliament (MP) for Orpington from 2010 to 2019. He currently sits in the House of Lords. His older brother, Boris Johnson, was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom between 2019 and 2022.
Johnson was appointed Director of the Number 10 Policy Unit in 2013 by Prime Minister David Cameron. He became Minister of State for the Cabinet Office in 2014 and Universities Minister in 2015. Following the January 2018 cabinet reshuffle, Johnson served as Minister of State for Transport and Minister for London; he resigned in November the same year, citing the failure of the Brexit negotiations to achieve what had been promised by the Vote Leave campaign and his wish to campaign for a referendum on the Brexit withdrawal agreement. In July 2019, he became part of his brother's Cabinet, again as Minister of State for Universities. Johnson and his brother became the third set of brothers to have served simultaneously in Cabinet – following Edward and Oliver Stanley in 1938, and David and Ed Miliband in 2007 – with Johnson being the first to serve as the brother of an incumbent prime minister.
In September 2019, he resigned from the Cabinet and announced that he would stand down as an MP at the 2019 United Kingdom general election. In July 2020, he was elevated to the House of Lords in the 2019 Dissolution Honours. He is Chairman of the House of Lords Select Committee on Education for 11–16 year olds.
Since leaving Government, Johnson has focused on the role of technology in widening access to education. He was appointed non-executive chairman at Tes in December 2019. He is also now chairman of Access Creative College, the largest independent provider of further education and training for the creative industries, and of FutureLearn, the global digital learning platform. He is also a senior fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School, and President's Professorial Fellow at King's College London. He has since returned to his work as a journalist at outlets including the Financial Times.
Johnson resigned his directorship after 8 months service, at Elara Capital PLC on the 1 February 2023. His resignation statement, (by email) acknowledged recognition that his former role "requires greater domain expertise in specialised areas of financial regulation than I anticipated and, accordingly, I have resigned from the board."
Lesen Sie mehr...Der 23. Dezember 1971 war ein Donnerstag unter dem Sternzeichen ♑. Es war der 356. Tag des Jahres. Präsident der Vereinigten Staaten war Richard M. Nixon.
Wenn Sie an diesem Tag geboren wurden, sind Sie 54 Jahre alt. Ihr letzter Geburtstag war am Dienstag, 23. Dezember 2025, vor 152 Tagen. Ihr nächster Geburtstag ist am Mittwoch, 23. Dezember 2026 in 212 Tagen. Sie haben 19.876 Tage gelebt oder ungefähr 477.039 Stunden oder ungefähr 28.622.397 Minuten oder ungefähr 1.717.343.820 Sekunden.
Date: 24 December 1971
Special to The New York Times
Amb C H Phillips of UN delegation makes oral protest to Thant over disaccreditation of Nationalist Chinese correspondents
Date: 23 December 1971
By CRAIG R. WHITNEYSpecial to The New York Times
Craig WHITNEYSpecial
News about what US and S Vietnamese troops are doing is becoming harder and, in many cases, impossible to obtain through official information channels; halt of news briefings by Amers noted; Amers say that since S Vietnamese bear more and more of the burden of mil action, they should speak for themselves; S Vietnamese reptd as not being very specific in briefings and getting less so; newsmen can find out about Vietnamese mil activities by field reptg, but Saigon has issued ground rules that provide for revocation of a newsman's visa if he repeatedly or extensively repts 'sensitive' mil information before it has been released officially; news of recent loss of 4 US planes coming first from Hanoi, not Saigon and Washington, cited as example of news situation
Date: 24 December 1971
Special to The New York Times
Internatl Press Inst protests ouster of Nationalist Chinese correspondents at UN; holds it cannot be justified by Assembly vote on China representation issue; ouster protested by J Lengyel, head of UN Correspondents Assn in Geneva; US Amb Phillips protests orally to Thant
Date: 23 December 1971
ASNE pres C A McKnight protests ouster of newsmen Tang and Lin
Date: 24 December 1971
By MARTIN TOLCHIN
Martin TOLCHIN
NYC Mayor Lindsay, in yr-end news conf, says that narcotics is 1 of areas that did not fulfill his prophecy that '71 would be 'Yr of Delivery'; says that while there has been no visible net gains in either drug traffic or rehabilitative efforts, there is no program anywhere that is comparable to city's drug program
Date: 24 December 1971
Special to The New York Times
McGovern proposes that all Amers, regardless of other income, get monthly payment from Govt as means of ending poverty; criticizes infrequency of Nixon's press confs; urges Pres press confs be held at least twice a mo and that monthly Cabinet meetings be open to press
Date: 24 December 1971
By TERENCE SMITHSpecial to The New York Times
Sec Rogers says that despite recently increased US air activity, Nixon is determined to continue US troops withdrawal
Date: 24 December 1971
United Tenn Bancshares Corp extends its tender offer until Dec 31 for Nashville City Bank & Trust Co shares, even though it has already recd enough shares to complete acquisition of bank
Date: 24 December 1971
Special to The New York Times
US officials in Washington say they were not informed in advance about Hope's private efforts on behalf of Amer POWs, but say he is free to pursue them; Sec Rogers says US officials in Bangkok helped Hope arrange trip to Vientiane
Date: 23 December 1971
informed sources say that GB and EEC have agreed on Jan 6 as date for Brit entry into EEC; say that both sides agreed that all remaining outstanding problems should be settled at meeting of deputy negotiators then; signing of treaty of accession set for Jan 22