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10:00The Political Appointment Process

President-elect Barack Obama promises to include Republicans in his Cabinet. A look at the vetting process underway for political appointees and key vacancies being filled.

Guests

Peter Baker, reporter, The New York Times

Jonathan Weisman, reporter,The Wall Street Journal

Alexis Simendinger, White House correspondent for the "National Journal"

11:00H. W. Brands: "Traitor To His Class"

F.D.R. was only twenty-five when he charted a course to the White House. A new biography of the nation’s thirty-second president and how he broke from his social class to become the most reform-minded president in U.S. history.

Guests

H. W. Brands, H.W. Brands is the Dickson Allen Anderson Centennial Professor of History at the University of Texas at Austin.

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