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Tuesday October 30, 2007

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10:00Amtrak

A bipartisan Senate bill would expand funding for Amtrak, but the White House has come out against it. A look at the future of passenger rail travel in the U.S.

Guests

Ross B. Capon, executive director, National Association of Railroad Passengers

Rep. Ernest J. Istook, Jr., former congressman from Oklahoma and chairman of the House Transportation Subcommittee on Transportation; distinguished fellow, the Heritage Foundation

Derrick Cain, reporter, Bureau of National Affairs

Sen. Frank Lautenberg, D-New Jersey

11:00Sir David Frost: "Frost/Nixon" (Harper Perennial)

British broadcaster David Frost gives us the inside story on how he secured a series of interviews with Ex-President Richard Nixon. The 1977 encounters focused on Nixon's time in office and the Watergate scandal which forced him from office. They've since been made into a Broadway play, "Frost/Nixon."

Guests

Sir David Frost, Emmy-Award winning television host and producer.

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