Overview
Donovan Johnson, often called Don, is an administrator at the New Liberals Institute in Current Affairs. He is described as a tall, well-built, dark-skinned black man in a slate suit and tie when Calvin Munn first meets him.
Donovan is Calvin’s main NLI manager. He gives Calvin room to build the American Vitality identity but also resists Calvin’s attempts to split his time and later fires him for hiding the Martingale reelection work.
Biography
Donovan contacts Calvin to arrange NLI’s first meeting and shows him the partly furnished Fifth Avenue office. He negotiates Calvin’s flat-rate part-time role and later supervises the pitch that turns into American Vitality.
As Calvin gains leverage from Rebecca Sedki’s trust fund and outside political connections, Donovan becomes less able to control him. When Donovan learns from Natalie Blanchard that Calvin has been working heavily on Martingale’s campaign, he calls Calvin and fires him for nondisclosure.