content: Didn't know he had one, but it looks like everyone wants to be "out of view" at some times. Everyone, that is, since President Nixon, who brilliantly recorded all his Cabinet conversations on tape... I wish that all of you could have heard the moment the guy who was responsible for White House communications was asked that by the Senate subcommittee... Talk about shock.  I was sitting in my car (was in grad school), and I still remember. It was on live radio, and the Senate hearings were just about to close.  It really was a "You can't make this stuff up" moment.