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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…

In this week's StoryCorps, a conversation with Joseph Rogers Britton, a caregiver who has been working with AIDS patients for four decades.

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?

Commentator Baxter Black details a specific kind of person, at least in his world view -- the Horse Person.

Host Bob Edwards talks with Jeff Greenfield, Senior Analyst with CNN, about his book The People's Choice. Greenfield says he wrote the book 5 years ago to explore one of the most implausible election scenarios he could imagine. But now, his fiction doesn't seem too far from reality.

Commentator Paul Durrenberger discusses what being busy means in our society. He says that being busy is equated with being important, and that today's pecking order is determined by who waits for whom.