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...Soon after news of Summers’ remarks first broke in a front-page Boston Globe article on Jan. 17, 2005, staffers in the president??€™s office quietly secured both tapes, according to three people familiar with the events in Mass. Hall last year. The recordings were not to be played to anyone, save for a select group of the president??€™s senior staff and an assistant assigned to secretly prepare a transcript...
...generally true, although the PowerPoint presentations of all but one other speaker were available on the website of the National of Bureau of Economic Research, which hosted the two-day conference and had made one of the two recordings of Summers’ speech. But in any event, the president??€™s office controlled the tapes, and releasing them was Mass. Hall’s prerogative...
...Summers and his staff managed to avoid the issue, for the most part, in the first days of the controversy, focusing instead on the president??€™s public statements and whether he should apologize. But in the weeks to come, calls for the transcript among professors and the media would reach a fevered pitch and test the limits of Mass. Hall’s defiance...
...Summers approached a confrontation with the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, his senior staff plotted a strategy to keep the president??€”and the president??€™s remarks on women in science—as far from the limelight as possible, according to three people familiar with the strategy. It would only partially succeed...
...Summers’ reluctance to flatly apologize, even in the face of his staff’s recommendations, led many in Mass. Hall to believe that he was taking his cues from people outside the president??€™s office...