His highest achievement in record gathering, however, is contained in a Quicken file, where he has tracked his personal finances for 16 years, ever since he was in 11th grade.
At one of the last intimate dinners given in the Georgetown salon of Katharine Graham -- a social (which means off the record) gathering of 10 last May -- I was given the nod by the journalist-hostess to shoot questions at two Bush cabinet members about their weltanschauung.
The lawsuit, brought by activist Larry Klayman in 2013, challenges the constitutionality of the NSA's phone record gathering practices.
The Freedom Act would terminate blanket phone record gathering, also ending the practice of pooling the records in a government database.
These issues, (and others) are frequently encountered by families on the Donor Sibling Registry, underscoring the need for both accurate record gathering and record keeping by sperm and egg facilities.
That, in turn, drew a defense from Atlantic owner David Bradley – and a biting essay by Slate's Jack Shafer, who wrote that the practice of holding such off-the-record gatherings "corrupts the business of journalism in deep, fundamental ways".
Last Saturday night, Mr. Gore broke a deep freeze with his campaign press corps by inviting reporters to an off-the-record gathering on the riverboat.
On Wednesday mornings, Norquist hosts an off-the-record gathering of conservative activists that has evolved into a wide-ranging forum for members of Congress, Capitol Hill staffers, single-issue campaigners, journalists, policy wonks, and corporate lobbyists.
When I was at university, a one-time very senior Tory figure put it succinctly at an off-the-record gathering: the Conservative Party, he explained, was a "coalition of privileged interests.
"Among Christian religions, we probably stand out as the one probably most interested in family ties; we are a record-keeping and record-gathering people," said Jay W. Butler, the associate international legal counsel in the church's office of general counsel.
At the house where my grandparents have lived for more than sixty years, in Marin County, looking down onto the marshes of San Francisco Bay, there is a storage closet filled with vases, Duraflame logs, and open boxes of audio records gathering dust.
