Cochran and Pierpoint were not just selectively hearing the grumblers either. In a detailed official investigation of the swine flu affair a year later, Richard E. Neustadt and Harvey Fineberg interviewed all the participants and verified for themselves the same surprising lack of support for the program. They report that they “ranged across the list of Ford’s political advisors, covering them thoroughly, we believe, from top to bottom, without finding an enthusiast among them.”
