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Monday October 4, 2004

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Week of October 4, 2004

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10:00Meeting U.S. Troop Requirements

President Bush has said the U.S military will remain an all voluntary organization. We'll look at trends in recruitment and concerns about a possible reinstatement of the draft.

Guests

Congressman Charles Rangel, a 19-term Democratic congressman representing New York's 15th District and chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee.

General Barry McCaffrey (U.S. Army-Ret.), infantry division commander in the first Gulf War, and currently adjunct professor at the U.S. Military Academy, West Point

David Chu, Under Secretary, Personnel and Readiness, Department of Defense

11:00Joseph Lemasolai Lekuton: "Facing the Lion" (National Geographic)

A Kenyan native tells his life story -- how the son of a nomadic cow-herding family went on to study at Harvard. He is now a teacher at a private school in the Washington suburbs, and each summer takes a group of his American students to experience life in his Maasai village.

Guests

Joseph Lemasolai Lekuton, social studies teacher at Langley School in McLean, Va.

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