Sources close to Mr Johnson told the BBC he was taking nothing for granted in the nomination process.
"This potentially reminds of similar events two and half to three years ago when Intel was ramping its 90nm process, from the predecessor 130nm, and did not achieve efficiency previously taken for granted in process transitions," said Whittington.
So does former professional basketball player Will Allen, who has since become a pioneer in the urban farming movement, earning a MacArthur Foundation "genius grant" in the process.
(d) It is the policy of the executive branch that, to the extent permitted by law and as practicable, State and local jurisdictions be granted a role in the process of determining the placement or settlement in their jurisdictions of aliens eligible to be admitted to the United States as refugees.
And that license was granted in a closed-door process that was restricted to a handful of politically connected American companies.
Rahim Kanani: If President Obama granted you an audience in the process of revamping the U.S. foreign aid program, what would your advice be?
Granted, it is early in the process, but telling everyone what is expected is part of creating that air of inevitability to intimidate legislators and agency staff that will have to make the call.
Granted, we had been in the process of getting rid of tons of junk and the entrance was filling up with garbage, but this smell was completely beyond the range of common garbage and, as my friend TH and I soon deduced, coming from the basement.
To start with, a future president must remove the 'foreign investor' privileges that were pushed into our 'trade' agreements starting with NAFTA by many of the 500-plus official corporate trade advisors granted a special role in the process under the then-existing Fast Track trade negotiating system.
Using income and family size, the table would inform students of their loan and grant eligibility early in the process.
