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A more widespread phenomenon is to remember printed pages, or precise conversations or debates that took place over several days ~ or even years.

You access things pretty much the way Ms. Henner does ~ and as you dig down ~ more like "drift down" through it ~ you see it.

People who write extensive bodies of regulations or laws usually have access to someone who can do this ~ frequently they can do it themselves.

Just like a DVD the scenes pop up that are associated with the rules, etc., and you can look around to see who was there and report back on who said what and what the arguments were.

Henner's thing is more detailed since it's like she has the dates associated with the material. The rule writers link up more with the structural development or etiology of the rule development than with outside references like dates.

Frankly I gave up trying to remember it all when I was about 10 or 11 years of age. Used to reflect on all my memories working my way backward to the age of 4 when there'd be a big skip over to 2 ~ there is no age 3 in my own structure, so I wouldn't make it in any sort of competition with Henner.

The amount of energy expended making the reviews to keep current, and arrange coherent links must be incredible. One of my cousins at 2 removes does something like Henner does ~ but she focuses on marriages and divorces in the United States ~ all of them. She's not terribly well structured beyond that. Bill Clinton had met me about 1973. One day I saw him at the Jerry's Pizza on US 1 in Alexandria (in Fairfax county) as I was driving down the road in my van. I looked over just as he looked at me (while he was stroking the breasts of a hooker he'd gotten pinned up against a black pick up he'd borrowed) and waved like he knew me.

Simply amazing. BTW, that was back in 1992 when the Democrats rented a partially completed office building a few blocks away just over Beacon Hill to use for their Presidential Campaign headquarters.

I am sure Bill remembers that moment as clearly as anything Ms. Henner can remember.

Bill will never be in her class of half a dozen people because much of his material is UNSTRUCTURED, or simply organized relationally to women he's dealt with one way or the other.