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Before he made her squirm, Larry Summers made Sarah C. Goodin ’06 shake. You know—her ass. Three years ago, Summers had just become Harvard University President. He had not yet alienated a large portion of the faculty with remarks about innate differences between the sexes, nor had he inspired a rally at which activists likened his antics to the patriarchical oppression of final clubs...
...liked to say at the time, just a freshman—like the members of the Class of 2006. It was in one of the definitive moments of that freshman year that Goodin got down with the President. On Jan. 8, 2003, Summers set what would become an annual tradition by hosting a freshman study break in Annenberg...
...hadn’t given special attention to any freshman—“Let me be very clear,” he said, “There was no individual student with whom I danced for more than 15 seconds.”—Goodin remembers her 15 seconds well. FM dialed her red phone for a little reminiscing about a time when the only thing CBS News, which covered the study break, wanted of Summers was to see him get down on the dance floor...
...Goodin: We were on the dance floor and somebody pushed me from behind. I just started dancing. Part of my goal was to freak him out a little bit. He continued to dance with other girls after I gave up. At some point one of his aides pulled him aside and basically told him, “Dancing with young girls is really inappropriate.” He stopped dancing...
Donors were especially reluctant to commit to Quayle for fear he could never win the general election. Several advisers had urged him to run instead for Indiana Governor in 1996. On the Sunday before Quayle withdrew, Goodin faxed him a long memo on campaign strategy. ``That memo gave him a lot to think about,'' says Goodin. ``If he was going to make a move on fund raising, he had to move fast.'' At that point, says Goodin, Quayle had not held a single fund raiser. ``One of the options clearly was dropping out of the race.'' Quayle later told...