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NPR's Special Correspondent Susan Stamberg begins a weekly series this month about presidents leaving the White House. Today, she talks with historian Richard Norton Smith about the experiences of a number of ex-presidents including, George Washington who's desire for a quiet life at Mt. Vernon was thwarted by visitors from all over the world.

Last week, Brown University named a new president, the first African American woman to lead an Ivy League University. NPR's education correspondent Claudio Sanchez has a profile.

NPR's Daniel Schorr, senior news analyst, talks about how a recent poll shows that the conflict in Iraqi and the raising gas prices are contributing to President Bush's falling image with the public.

NPR Senior News Analyst Daniel Schorr notes how important it is that citizens perceive political leaders to be healthy.

NPR's Gerry Hadden reports that Mexico has entered a new political era with today's inauguration of President Vicente Fox. His election in July was a huge defeat for the ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party, known as PRI, which had dominated Mexican politics since 1929. Fox, a business executive in his previous life, has named a cabinet packed with other businessmen. They began to take up their responsibilities as the day began. Fox, an avowed Roman Catholic, began HIS day by praying at the basilica of the Virgin of Guadalupe, Mexico's patron saint. Later, he took the oath of office in the country's first peaceful transfer of power to an opposition party.

President Biden and former President Trump will debate each other. The earliest general-election debate in history will take place in June.

Twenty-five former presidents of the D.C. Bar say the lawyers for President Trump have "have willingly agreed to become the instruments of a wholesale attack on the integrity of the democratic process."

The impeachment trial is over. But other investigations are still ongoing.

President Biden is in Lima, Peru, where he's meeting with leaders from the Asia-Pacific region, including Chinese President Xi Jinping. It's expected to be their final meeting.