JOHNSON V. JOHNSON by Barbara Goldsmith

Author:Barbara Goldsmith [Goldsmith, Barbara]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-0-307-80036-7
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published: 2011-08-10T00:00:00+00:00

I decided, “What’s going on here? Who’s the person I fear the most?” It was Basia. So I said, “Well, I’ll find out. Might as well go right to the lion’s mouth and find out.” When we got home, I said, “Basia, the deal was that I was supposed to have this and it’s under threat. What do you think I should do?” She said, “I think that you should have it, you’ve done a fantastic job at Harbor Branch. You’re doing everything right and you should definitely have it and I’ll talk to him.” She talked to him about four minutes and he was ready to sign away anything. It was just like that. He called me into the bedroom and signed away this thing. After he signed it, he patted me on the head. Then Basia and Joyce and I sat in the living room and talked for a couple of hours while he fell asleep.

If my father had been angry at me, why would he have left me as an executor and trustee of his will? Why would he have left me property and a million dollars? It doesn’t make sense.

What does make sense is that Basia ended up with what Harbor Branch would have gotten. All that maneuvering by Basia and Nina was about cutting out Harbor Branch, a charity everyone admits my father loved. Basia’s story gives exactly the opposite impression of what actually happened.

JOYCE JOHNSON: We were visiting just literally when he was dying. My husband had asked him if he would sign. He was so reserved and hesitant and deferential to his father he could hardly bring himself to do it. And so his father signed something and said, “Yes, of course I should, and you are running this.” It all took place in about ten minutes. Now, Basia had said at the time, “After all, you are running it. You deserve this. Come on, let’s do this, we’ll get this done.” And she did. In her own officious kind of aggressive way, she got the whole thing done. Now Basia is saying my husband seized power from his father.

BASIA: His father was very sad, very angry, I could see that, but he took those papers and he signed them. Junior asked me to sign them as a witness. Immediately after the signing of the resignation, Junior was very excited. He said, “I hate that old father of mine. I hate him with all my heart, the most I can, because he should make this resignation a long time ago, at least two years ago, but he wanted all the power for himself.” I was paralyzed after what I have heard. I have heard it before, but I never treated it seriously. I never consider it serious what he was talking about his father, that he hates him.

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