Remember Mitt Romney’s gaffe about having “binders full of women” during his 2012 presidential run?

Those binders were real, and they’ve recently been uncovered by The Boston Globe.

A former Romney aide recently shared the files with the Globe. They are two white three-ring binders that are filled with more than 200 covers and resumes, along with notes, according to the Globe.

The binders first appeared in mainstream political culture in 2012 during the first debate between then-President Barack Obama and Romney. When asked about closing wage gaps, Romney spoke about his governorship.

“I went to a number of women’s groups and said, ‘Can you help us find folks?’ and they brought us whole binders full of women,” he said at the time, according to the Globe.

The binders actually date back to 2002 when Romney first became governor of Massachusetts. He received all the information from the Massachusetts Government Appointments Project, which corralled information on women interested in serving in the government, the Globe reported.

“It was a response to a desire on the part of the Romney administration to access a pool of talent,” Linda Rossetti, who worked with the coalition, told the Globe. “They drummed up what was an inelegant way to get at this pool of talent.”

Read more at The Boston Globe.