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.

I am going to leave the future of Europe to the Europeans.

I'm glad you asked. It has nothing to do with oil, literally nothing to do with oil.

Sausage making and policy-making shouldn't be seen close-up.

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.

I think it's very useful for you folks (reporters) to try your damndest to be precise. And don't repeat things that are inaccurate if you can possibly avoid it. And when you see things that are inaccurate, knock them down -- because there's a bucket of it floating around.

Don't automatically obey Presidential directives if you disagree or if you suspect he hasn't considered key aspects of the issue.