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Chaim87:
Stories of Rav Aharon dealing with him as needed are not relevant to the facts of who he was and the damage he caused (still ongoing) to American Jewry. In this very thread, people still bring up his “Kol Dodi Dofek” piece as if its halacha liMoshe miSinai when in fact it’s actually baseless and emotional at best. Regardless, it’s clear that Rabbi Soloveichik had tremendous influence, and the gedolim acted accordingly.

But if you want to tell over stories, you could tell over the one about giyus banos, when Rav Aharon tried to get Rabbi Dr. Soloveichik to condemn the wicked Zionists for trying to shmad all the girls and therefore destroy Klal Yisrael. Rav Aharon said imagine that in this room were not you, but your grandfather Rav Chaim Brisker and not me but my father-in-law Rav Isser Zalman, etc. What would your grandfather say. Rabbi Dr. Soloveichik would have none of that and wished him a good day and left.