recollect

transitive verb

  1. to bring back to the level of conscious awareness : [remember] trying to recollect the name
  2. to remind (oneself) of something temporarily forgotten

intransitive verb

  • to call something to mind

— Merriam-Webster

Dates back to watching live television coverage of the US Senate Watergate hearings for me, and the too-often repeated phrase, “I do not recollect.”