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The country paused today to remember those who gave their lives in the protection of its freedoms. President Clinton laid a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknowns, at Arlington National Cemetery, before making remarks to those gathered there in a light rain. We'll hear excerpts from the President's address.

Both the major party presidential candidates woke up this morning in states they had not expected to worry about this late in their campaigns. Texas Governor George W. Bush was in Florida, where his brother Jeb is governor, and Vice President Al Gore was in his own home state of Tennessee. NPR's Peter Kenyon reports.

In their day, acts like Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy would keep audiences young and old as transfixed as the biggest stars on television today. It's hard to imagine that ventriloquists and their wooden sidekicks would be such big hits -- on radio. NPR's Bob Edwards talks to the author of a new book about the bygone era of ventriloquism.

President Elect George W. Bush had a lunch meeting in Austin today with Democratic Senator John Breaux of Louisiana to talk about ways of bridging the gap between the parties back in Washington. One way to do it might be to appoint Democrats to the president's Cabinet, of course, and Breaux himself has been mentioned as a candidate for the Energy Department. NPR's Don Gonyea reports from the Texas capital.

Today's events on the presidential campaign found both major party candidates on the defensive. Vice President Al Gore said he was not a big spender or an ally of big government, promising a smaller federal government if he is elected. George W. Bush was defending his education record as governor of Texas against charges that he had overstated improvements in student performance. NPR's Peter Kenyon has this report.

NPR's Don Gonyea reports on President-elect George W. Bush, who today resigned from the only political office he has ever held -- governor of Texas. The emotional speech by Bush ended 6 years at the helm in Austin and comes less than a month before he is to move to his new home at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. Meanwhile, jockeying continues to go on behind the scenes for filling the remaining Cabinet slots.

NPR's Don Gonyea reports on the latest personnel announcements of President-elect George W. Bush, starting with Missouri Senator John Ashcroft for Attorney General. Ashcroft, a strong conservative, was defeated in his bid for re-election last month by the late Mel Carnahan. He's also a former two-term governor and state attorney general. New Jersey Governor Christine Todd Whitman was chosen to head the Environmental Protection Agency.

If we can determine a great deal about our culture by the objects we value, it stands to reason that we can learn a lot about ourselves from the objects…

Robert talks with Andrew Kohut, director of the Pew Center for People and the Press, about yesterday's elections and what the results mean for the nation. Kohut says that although there are discernable patterns in voting, there is no really defined pattern of what all the results of the races mean politically. Overall, mainstream political ideas carried the day...and neither the Republicans nor the Democrats ended up with a mandate.

Satirist Harry Shearer was recently struck by a thought about the A & E program Biography. What would happen if the show ran out of famous people to profile?