Thurlow Weed’s Marvellous Memory

Concerned that he lacked a native facility for remembering  names and appointments, and believing that “a politician who sees a man once should remember him forever,” Weed consciously trained his memory. He spent fifteen minutes every night telling his wife, Catherine, everything that had happened to him that day, everyone he had met and the exact words spoken. The nightly mnemonics worked, for Weed soon became know as a man with a phenomenal recall. Gifted with abundant energy, shrewd intelligence, and a warm personality, he managed to carve our a brilliant career as a printer, editor, writer, publisher, and, eventually, as powerful politic boss, familiarly know as “the Dictator”.