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SCOTT SIMON RE-INTRODUCES US TO VAUGHN deLEATH, FIRST LADY OF RADIO... BORN AND BURIED IN MOUNT PULASKI, ILLINOIS.

The Senate Whitewater committee has issued a report accusing President Clinton and Hillary Rodham Clinton of questionable conduct in the investigation of Whitewater-related events. The report, written by the majority Republicans, suggested the president and first lady misused the power of the White House to obstruct investigators. Democrats refused to sign the committee report, and released one of their own exonerating the Clintons. NPR's Jon Greenberg reports.

Melissa Block talks to Arizona Ostrich Rancher D.C. Cogburn about the day his ostriches stampeded several years ago, and the financial woes he's had ever since. He says a hot-air balloon so spooked the birds that they panicked; many were seriously injured. His loss to the balloonists in a civil lawsuit has led Cogburn to quit the business.

NPR's Mara Liasson has an update on the Democratic National Committee's fundraising troubles. Congressional Republican leaders said today that Vice President Al Gore may have violated the law by soliciting campaign contributions from the White House. And a Republican lawmaker is suggesting the first lady knows more than she's acknowledged about links between the White House and fund-raising. Indiana Congressman David McIntosh points to a 1994 White House memo. In it, Hillary Rodham Clinton encourages a plan to share computer data on supporters with the Democratic National Committee.

Robert and Linda discuss the theme of last night's Democratic National Convention...family values. From First Lady Hillary Clinton talking about her husband and her daughter to Jesse Jackson reminiscing about his father, to keynote speaker Evan Bayh (BY) showing off his children, families were the common thread of the speeches of the evening. We'll hear highlights.

Linda talks with Senator Dianne Feinstein of California who will be speaking tonight at the Democratic National Convention. She is one of five women senators speaking -- an attempt to appeal to women voters. Feinstein talks about First Lady Hillary Clinton's speech last night and her role in the White House. She also talks about Elizabeth Dole and how similar she and Mrs. Clinton are.

NPR's Elizabeth Arnold reports that Hillary Clinton is a dominant presence at the Democratic National Convention, even though she has been a controversial First Lady. She's extremely popular among party regulars, even more so after she became a target at the Republican convention earlier this month. The day after addressing the convention, Hillary Clinton made the rounds of state delegations and caucus meetings.

From frustrated newlyweds who don't know what to do with each other, to an arranged marriage of inconvenience, this double bill from Ireland's Wexford Festival features the little-heard short operas The Marriage contract by Rossini and An Insufficient Education by Chabrier.

bargaining position on the federal budget and the increasing questions surrounding the First Lady.

NPR's Mara Liasson reports that Hillary Rodham Clinton is at the center of controversy in today's report released by teh Senate Whitewater committee. The Republicans' report says she and White House aides showed a pattern of concealment and obstruction that continues to this day. Democrats say the investigation found no wrongdoing on her part. But never before in history has a congressional committee taken on a First Lady so directly.

For decades, scientists have searched for plants containing disease-fighting compounds. Some powerful cancer drugs are derived from a flower that grows in the forests of Madagascar. But experts say the oceans, teeming with life, might be a better place to search. As NPR's Eric Niiler reports, researchers are now scouring the seven seas in hopes of finding the next blockbuster drug.

Natalie Moore and Natalie Hopkinson discuss their book Deconstructing Tyrone: A New Look at Black Masculinity in the Hip-Hop Generation.