Bloomberg reported that the White House, which directed the investigation, didn't authorize interviews with either Ford or Kavanaugh.
In the end, I was authorized to interview only one other person: Hossein Shariatmadari, an adviser to Khamenei, and the editor-in-chief of Kayhan, the daily newspaper that speaks for Iran's clerical establishment.
He declined to comment and refused to authorize an interview with Mr. Will, now 33.
He said that because Merrill would not authorize an interview, he did not want to be identified and risk jeopardizing the package, which provided him with 67 weeks of pay on a $101,000 salary, and the ability to stay on the company health plan, paying out of pocket about $400 more per month than he did when he was with the company.
"I assessed Rush, and I saw he had a problem he couldn't control," Strumwasser told me in a phone interview authorized by Limbaugh.
He personally authorizes all interviews with his players and assistant coaches.
Cheney's principal cardiologist, Dr. Jonathan Reiner, advised his patient that "it would not be unreasonable for an otherwise healthy 71-year-old man to expect to live another 10 years" with a transplant, saying in a family-authorized interview that he considered Cheney to be otherwise healthy.
(They spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to give interviews).
(He declined my repeated requests for one when I was working on a book about the company, "Private Empire," which came out in 2012, although he authorized some background interviews with other ExxonMobil executives).
In interviews authorized by their generously self-deprecating boss, employees describe him as trusting and appreciative, full of off-the-wall ideas about how to turn around the business, and dramatically clueless about the harsh realities of the restaurant industry.
He authorized only two interviews (Goodman 1980 , 2005, did not write an autobiography, and rejected the invitation to be honored with a volume in the prestigious Schilpp Library of Living Philosophers (Elgin 2000a: 2000a
