I read recently that President Barack Obama’s personal assistant is Katie Johnson, one of the ten people he hired at the beginning of his presidential campaign. A 2003 graduate of Wellesley College, Ms. Johnson will now take up her post outside the Oval Office, handling the President’s scheduling and whatever else Mrs. Landingham Ms. Johnson does.
I’m sure Ms. Johnson will discharge her duties with distinction, but there is something unsettling about a 28-year-old taking up the #1 Gatekeeper position for the Leader of the Free World. No grandmotherly figure with a cookie jar, the contents of which she would give or withhold at whim, and no tart-tongued, middle-aged ex-gambler charged not only with the president’s schedule, but also his health and memory? I don’t know…
Then again, perhaps Mr. Obama doesn’t need those things. After all, unlike the fictional President Bartlet, he doesn’t suffer from a chronic disease like MS. (At least he hasn’t told us so. Yet.)
Shimshonit 
Isn’t that more the Charlie position?
It’s Katie Johnson, and she is in the Mrs. Landingham position.
See http://www.boston.com/news/nation/washington/articles/2009/01/14/from_wellesley_to_organizer_in_chief/
Either Michael’s source or Wellesley Magazine has her name wrong. Whatever K-name she has, she is closer (physically) to the Oval Office than Hillary Rodham Clinton (another Wellesley alumna) managed to get.
My source is simply the article I linked to, which was from the Boston Globe back in January. But her parents are involved in Brookline politics, so I suppose I could ask them.
Michael: I found other sources online that confirm your findings. I’ve corrected her name in the post.