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Host Bob Edwards speaks with Ed Bliss, a writer and editor who founded the broadcast journalism program at American University. His new memoir, Beyond the Stone Arches looks back on the forty years his father spent as a medical missionary in China.

In the first of a five-part series on the Clinton foreign policy legacy, NPR's Mike Shuster reports on President Clinton's mixed record on arms control and nuclear non-proliferation.

NPR's Peter Overby reports Congress will have a busy week of confirmation hearings for President-elect Bush's cabinet nominees. Hearings for Mr. Bush's choices of John Ashcroft for Attorney General and Gale Norton for Interior Secretary are expected to be contentious. But other nominees, such as Tommy Thompson as Health and Human Services Secretary and Christie Whitman as EPA Administrator are likely to sail through with few snags.

NPR Senior News Analyst Daniel Schorr says the incoming Bush Administration will take a new, less cordial approach to American dealings with Russia.

In part two of a week-long series on President Clinton's foreign policy record, NPR's Tom Gjelten examines US/European relations over the last eight years. There were numerous policy disagreements: the Balkans; the future of NATO; and trade. The emergence of the European Union has raised particular US concerns about the future of the NATO military alliance.

David Shaper of member station WBEZ in Chicago reports that Motorola is halting cellular-phone manufacturing at its plant in Harvard, Illinois, and laying off about 2,500 workers.

NPR's Jackie Northam reports from Chicago on rising natural gas prices. Colder than normal temperatures have greatly increased demand for natural gas in much of the Midwest.

Host Bob Edwards talks with NPR's Gerry Hadden about the latest on the earthquake in San Salvador and relief efforts underway there.

Host Bob Edwards talks with Stuart Eizenstat, the Clinton administration's point man on Holocaust issues, about the presentation of his commission's final report today at the White House.

NPR Special Correspondent Susan Stamberg talks with historian Joseph Ellis about the transition of power from John Adams to Thomas Jefferson after the contentious election of 1800. The conversation is part of a month-long series about leaving the White House.