Walk around. If you are invisible, the mystique of the President's office may perpetuate inaccurate impressions about you or the President, to his detriment. After all, you may not be as bad as they're saying.

Never assume the other fellow will not do something you wouldn't do.

See that the President, the Cabinet and staff are informed. If cut out of the information flow, their decisions may be poor, not made, or not confidently or persuasively implemented.

One thing appears reasonably certain, and that's that those who make allegations of a culture of deception, of intimidation or cover-up need to be extremely careful about such accusations.

Public servants are paid to serve the American people. Do it well.

If you develop rules, never have more than ten.

I don't believe anyone that I know in the administration ever said that Iraq had nuclear weapons.