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As potential presidential candidates start to line up, voters will begin thinking once again about who will make the best leader for this country. Daniel talks with historian Michael Beschloss and Charles Cook, of the Cook Political Report, about what qualities the American public typically looks for in a leader. And whether those qualities are necessarily what it takes to be a good president.

Jacki speaks with James Chiles, author of an article in the December issue of Smithsonian Magazine about the early days Congress. Chiles says that Congress in the early 19th century was a raucus place...with members hurling personal insults at each other, and in some cases resorting to violence.

NPR's Eric Weiner reports that author Salman Rushdie is running into trouble again - this time in Bombay.

Daniel reads from....listener's letters!

Daniel talks to reporter Linda Gradstein in Israel about a memorial ceremony held today in Tel Aviv, where tens of thousands of Israelis gathered in the square where Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin was assassinated 8 days ago.

Daniel speak with Adam Clymer, the New York Times Chief Congressional Correspondent, about the continuing impasse between the White House and the Republican-controlled Congress over the budget. If the two sides don't work out a compromise by midnight tomorrow, the federal government will run out of money and face a partial shutdown. Clymer talks about the politics behind all of the rhetoric.

ADR is automated dialogue replacement, and that's Hollywood jargon for just one of the tricks the film industry plays on you when movies are produced. Daniel goes inside Hollywood to examine the making of movies, and specifically, how the voices you hear on the screen may be entirely different from what you're led to believe.

Storyteller Carmen Deedy once again reveals the depth of her mother's wisdom.

Jacki talks with Professor Peter Pellet, head of the Nutrition Department at the University of Massachusetts, about a report he helped write on malnutrition in Iraq. He recently returned from a Iraq with a group that was given free reign to travel throughout the country. He says they discovered that millions of people are malnourished in Iraq and he blames the UN sanctions for the worsening situation. He says because Iraq cannot sell its oil, it cannot buy the food its people need.

NPR's David Molpus visits a community near Fayetteville, North Carolina, a place where some 1,000 retired Green Berets live. Molpus says these men, who gained fame during the Vietnam war, are still trying to cope with the war and its aftermath.