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Journalist Owen Bennett Jones is the author of Pakistan: Eye of the Storm. In the book, he examines the country's turbulent 55-year history. He'll discuss Pakistan's history and its current relationship with the United States. Jones lives in England and has written for The Guardian, The Financial Times and The Independent newspapers and the London Review of Books. He has also reported for BBC Radio and BBC World Television.

President Bush announces his choice for treasury secretary -- John Snow, chairman of CSX Transportation. Snow is no stranger to Washington. Hear NPR's Don Gonyea and Bob Lenzner, Forbes magazine national editor.

Though John Snow is currently chairman of CSX, Washington is not foreign to him. Snow also served in the administration of President Gerald Ford and has been chairman of the Business Roundtable, which has long advocated a balanced federal budget. For some details about John W. Snow's background, Robert Siegel talks with Bob Lenzner, national editor of Forbes magazine.

The head of the Boston Archdiocese meets with Vatican officials in Rome, while in Boston there are new calls for his resignation. Cardinal Bernard Law's trip follows revelations claiming he overlooked charges of priestly sexual misconduct longer than previously thought. NPR's Michele Norris talks with John Allen, Vatican correspondent with National Catholic Reporter.

President Bush today announced his new choice for treasury secretary: John W. Snow, chairman of the nation's largest railroad. Snow will now become the leading figure on the president's economic policy team, replacing Paul O'Neill, who was forced out last week. NPR's White House correspondent Don Gonyea reports.

President Bush today traveled from Prague to St. Petersburg, Russia, for the close of NATO's transformation summit. This is the first time a meeting of all NATO leaders was held behind the old Iron Curtain. Yesterday the Atlantic alliance invited seven East European countries into its ranks. Today's proceedings focused on NATO's relations with Russia. NPR's Guy Raz is in Prague.

Robert Siegel speaks with Robert Dallek, a history professor at Boston University, about Storm Thurmond's 1948 presidential run on the Dixiecrat ticket. Last Thursday at Thurmond's 100th birthday celebration, Senate GOP Leader Trent Lott said that if Thurmond had been elected president, "...we wouldn't have had all these problems over all these years."

A federal judge tosses a legal challenge brought by the General Accounting Office, in which the agency sought to learn more about meetings between Vice President Dick Cheney, energy company lobbyists and oil industry officials. NPR's Michele Norris discusses the case with NPR's Nina Totenberg.

Regional carriers such as Atlantic Coast Airlines, SkyWest, and Air Wisconsin are contracted by United Airlines to provide service from small market airports to the larger hubs. They're actually making money. Robert Siegel talks with Douglas Abbey, aviation consultant with AvStart, about how these smaller airlines operate and how United's bankruptcy might affect them.

Spain's military sends reinforcements to the country's northwest coast to help clean up oil from the sunken tanker Prestige. Despite assurances by the Spanish government that the oil would freeze in the hull, a research sub confirms the oil is streaming out. Hear Jerome Socolovsky.