For more than a decade, defense lawyers, prosecutors, police officers, and even a state's attorney general have quietly sought him out to question him about his vexing and pivotal role in the Howell case.
Other residents sought him out for advice about their own homes.
Cristina Calderón, Keyuk's tutor, was one of her subjects, and, having heard of Keyuk's projects, Chapman sought him out in Santiago, about ten years ago.
Families who remembered his accomplishments in furthering the understanding of cystinosis at NIH sought him out with questions about the condition and "I sort of got pulled into it," he recalled.
Damaso Lopez, a longtime confidant of Guzman's, offered testimony describing how Coronel sought him out in 2014, about a month after Guzman was arrested in Mazatlan, Mexico.
What Lawson neglected to mention and which no journalist sought to quiz him about was a graph featuring prominently at the top of every page on the foundation's website, using data published by the Climatic Research Unit and the Met Office's Hadley Centre.
The fearless crusader for truth and transparency was slightly less relaxed when the free information being sought was about him.
But McCarthyism was in full swing, and soon, agents from the Federal Bureau of Investigation sought to question him about his involvement with AIMS, which was suspected of Communist leanings.
When he came back for a talk, at the encouragement of his press secretary, he immediately tried to put the conversation off the record, participants said, when they sought to ask him about his views on gay marriage.
While Mr. Cain said that he would "be happy to take questions" at the end of his remarks, he limited those questions to members of Congress, ignoring the mass of reporters who sought to ask him about the allegations of sexual harassment.
