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Originally Posted by Cowperson
It was early, so I asked him how on earth, with all the people he must meet every day and years intervening plus the completely different circumstances, he could have possibly remembered me. While the passage of multiple decades has dulled my memory as to his complete answer, he did tell me had a system whereby he tried to remember faces and names . . . . and later, from his other colleagues, I learned it was something that made him a brilliant and popular politician, the ability to personalize even a fleeting meeting and bring it back later.
People loved him for that.
And just to show it was no fluke, he did it again with myself a few years after that as well.
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I've heard that Bill Clinton has the exact same memory (or memory trick). He, like Lougheed, seams to remember ever single person he meets, regardless of their status. Not to derail the thread, but it seams like a key trait for the really successful politicians.