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President-elect George W. Bush will be inaugurated a week from tomorrow, and the city of Washington is getting ready for a larger number of protests than is usual. Robert speaks with Terrence Gainer, Deputy Chief of Police for Washington D.C. about the preparations.

Robert talks to Adam Eidinger, an organizer with the Justice Action Movement, which will be taking part in protests against the inauguration of George W. Bush. Justice Action Network has been a part of large protests around the country against the World Trade Organization and World Bank and International Monetary Fund. Eidinger supported Ralph Nader in the November presidential election, and believes Bush's presidency is illegitimate.

Sheehan reviews 13 Days the new film about the Cuban Missle Crisis starring Kevin Costner.

Minimalist Composer Steve Reich on his composition Its Gonna Rain inspired by the Cuban Missle Crisis.

Maxwell Taylor Kennedy is the youngest son of the late Robert Kennedy. He edited a collection of his father's private journal entries called Make Gentle The Life of this World: The Vision of Robert F. Kennedy. He reads from the speech his father gave on the night that Martin Luther King Jr. was assasinated. (REBROADCAST from 6

NPR's Shirley Jahad reports on the hopeful reaction of the religious right to the latest cabinet nominations of President-elect George W. Bush.

Khrushchev is the son of the former Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev. He remembers the Cuban Missile Crisis.

NPR's Jason Beaubien reports from Boston on a series of allegations that prison guards in Massachusetts have systematically brutalized inmates. Generally, it's hard for prison inmates to substantiate their complaints of physical abuse by guards. And watchdog groups and journalists usually can't get access to prisons or documents.

Commentator Kelly Beatty says we all should look to the skies for one last glimpse of the Russian Space Station, Mir which is being retired after over a decade in space.

Blanton helped research information for The Cuban Missile Crisis. In the book, released documents and top-secret files reveal how close the US came to a nuclear entanglement. In 1987, the National Security Archive filed suit against the US government for failing to produce the documents they requested. Since then there has been more compliance with the archive, especially since the Russian government told the US to go ahead and release the Kennedy-Krushchev letters.