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- Daniel speaks with reporter Virginia Biggar about the other political convention that opens today, that of Ross Perot's Reform, Party. Biggar explains that today's event in Dallas, where Perot and his rival, former Colorado Gov. Richard Lamm will deliver speeches, is only the first part of a two-phase convention. The second phase, she says, will include voting by mail and e-mail and the announcement of the party's candidate next Sunday.

A former White House employee has told Senate investigators that she informed ex-personnel security chief Craig Livingstone that FBI background files were being gathered on former presidential aides. That's contrary to testimony from Livingstone. NPR's Peter Kenyon reports.

Bandleader and pianist EDDI PALMIERI. Through his first band, La Perfecta, labeled "the band with the crazy roaring elephants," Palmieri was credited with originating Latin jazz's trombone sound in New York during the sixties. He has a new cd "Vortex" by RMM Records. Originally aired 6

Scott talks with retiring U.S. Senator Nancy Kassebaum of Kansas.

Scott talks to Weekend Edition's gardening afficionado, Ketzel Levine (KET-zul luh-VEEN) about gardening tool design and the health hazards of horticulture. Guest Bonnie Lee Appleton, Associate Professor of Horticulture at Virginia Tech University and Extension Nursery Specialist at the Hampton Roads Acriculture Experiment Station, joins the discussion.

Reporter Marc Rosenbaum finds a diary belonging to a grandmother he never met.

NPR's Jim Zarroli reports that America Online is embarking on an expensive promotional campaign and switching stock exchanges in a bid to reposition itself in the face of growing competition. America Online grew to prominence as a NASDAQ stock, but is moving to the New York Stock Exchange as part of a broader campaign to increase public visibility.

NPR Senior News Analyist Daniel Schorr takes a look the new book, Richard Nixon: Off the Record," written by Monica Crowley. 3:30

In an emotional address to the delegates, Nancy Reagan thanked them for giving her and her husband a life in politics, and regretted that former president Ronald Reagan was unable to speak to them this week.

Noah and Linda have a brief summary of the news of the day at the Republican National Convention and this evening's expected events.

Scott commemorates the 150th anniversary of the Smithsonian Institution with an essay and sounds from the institution's various museums in the nation's capital.

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