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- Daniel speaks to Dwight Blocker Bowers of the National Museum of American History about the possible origins of the first broadway musical. Bowers is Co-curator of a new exhibit called, "Red, Hot, & Blue", at the National Portrait Gallery that traces the roots of the American musical on stage and screen.

Senior news analyst Daniel Schorr says that the United States' long history of involvement in Middle East diplomacy reduces President Clinton's political risk in orchestrating this week's emergency summit.

NPR's Ted Clark reports on the appearance made by Madeleine Albright at hearings on Capitol Hill today. President Clinton has nominated her as the next Secretary of State. If she is approved by the Senate, she would be the first woman in U.S. history to hold such a high office.

Olympic gold-medallist Marion Jones has ended her association with track coach Charlie Francis, who was a central figure in the biggest drug scandal in Olympic history. NPR's Tom Goldman reports.

A talk about the Israeli/Palestinian crisis, and the history leading up to it with two journalists: first, Danny Rubenstein, columnist and member of the editorial board of the Isreali newspaper Haaretz. We talk with a Jordanian journalist in the second half of the show.

Eighty-percent of the world's poinsettias are grown at one ranch in Encinitas, California. Noah talks with Paul Ecke III -- CEO of Paul Ecke Ranch -- about the history and breeding of the popular holiday flower. The Ecke family has grown the tropical American shrub for ninety years.

Scott speaks about the Freedmen's Bureau with Joseph Reidy, professor of history at Howard University. Documents from the Bureau, which was established following the Civil War to help freed slaves adjust to their new lives, are due to be surveyed by the National Archives.

Security for next week's Presidential Inauguration is expected to be tighter than at any inauguration in history ... election protestors are promising to show up in droves. NPR's Mary Ann Akers reports.

Weekend Edition History Commentator Douglas Brinkley discusses the lasting impact of President Dwight D. Eisenhower's Farewell Address of January, 1961. Brinkley says Eisenhower saw a future government dominated by the collusion of military and industrial interests.

Robert Siegel talks to Bob Drew, a former broadcaster for the Rochester Red Wings, the minor league baseball team that played the longest professional baseball game in history. It happened 20 years ago, against the Pawtuckett Red Sox.