One architectural historian has noted : " Perhaps the most notable of Johnson's work was the design for the new supervisor's office for the Tahoe National Forest, which was completed in November 1945 but never constructed . " One of Johnson's subordinates from the late 1950s recalled that, in his later years, Johnson spent much of his time " checking plans, discussing designs, and brooding about what his career might have been had he not been called to the guayule rubber project ."
