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NPR's Steve Inskeep and Anthony Brooks speak with host Jacki Lyden about the Gore and Bush campaigns this week. They answer questions from our listeners about candidates' positions on issues not mentioned during campaign appearances.

It was 204 years ago this week that America's first president announced to the nation he would not seek a third term in office. George Washington had entered office a war hero but had become discouraged by newspaper attacks on his character. Host Jacki Lyden speaks with Washington biographer Willard Sterne Randall about how Washington's departure paved the way for a two-party system and for a tradition of attacks on character.

Scott speaks with Paul Moore, who was the FBI's chief China analyst for 20 years, and with Jonathan Turley, who teaches law at George Washington University, about the Justice Department's handling of the case against Wen Ho Lee.

NPR'S Howard Berkes explores Australia's passion for swimming. In the first day of Olympic swimming competition, five world records fell. Australian talent Ian Thorpe thundered through the water with victories in single and relay events, stirring hopes that the Australians can replace America as the sport's dominant team.

Host Jacki Lyden speaks with James Perkins, the first African-American mayor of Selma, Alabama. The defeated mayor, Joe Smitherman, was the man who called out the National Guard on civil rights protesters in 1965.

Former Los Alamos nuclear scientist Wen Ho Lee was released from prison this week. Fifty-eight of fifty-nine charges were dropped. NPR's Guy Raz spoke with scientists in the Los Alamos area who wonder if investigators for the Justice Department misunderstood Lee's actions from the start.

Another lawsuit against the gun industry has been dismissed in Illinois, NPR's Eric Westervelt reports.

Participants of a strange competition called the Eco-Challenge were exposed to leptospirosis, a rare bacterial illness. Scott speaks with Trisha Middleton is with Eco-Challenge Productions, which organized the event in Borneo.

NPR's Brian Naylor reports on the move by Republicans in the House to authorize the building of a monument to former president Ronald Reagan on the National Mall in Washington. It has already passed the House Resources Committee and is on the way to a full floor vote before Congress adjourns next month. Democrats say the move is less about honoring Reagan than it is about injecting him into the current presidential campaign. The move, if it passes, would circumvent a law that says no one can be honored with a memorial in the nation's capital until 25 years after the person's death.

NPR's Mandalit Del Barco reports on the public transit strike in Los Angeles. The shut down of bus and rail service has turned the city's already difficult commutes into a real mess.