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Monday July 26, 2004

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Week of July 26, 2004

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10:00Continuity of Government

Diane and her guests look at the options for keeping the U.S. government -- executive, judicial, and legislative branches -- up and running in times of catastrophic crisis.

Guests

Norman Ornstein, resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute

Lynn Martin, member of the Continuity of Government Commission

Donald Wolfensberger, director of the Congress Project at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars; former staff director of the House Rules Committee

Rep. Vic Snyder, (D-Arkansas)

Rep. Brian Baird, (D-Washington)

11:00Evan Cornog: "The Power and the Story" (The Penguin Press)

How successfully George W. Bush and John F. Kerry craft the stories of their lives will influence which man voters select to be the next president. A historian and journalist explores how presidential narratives have determined political success through history.

Guests

Evan Cornog, Associate Dean at the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism, publisher of the Columbia Journalism Review, and author of "The Birth of Empire" and "Hats in the Ring."

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