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The non-classical music selections of "Mad About Music" guests: President Jimmy Carter, Katharine Graham, Lorin Maazel, Felix Rohatyn, William Buckley, West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Peter Jennings, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak, Richard Meier, Valery Gergiev, Alec Bladwin and Tom Brokaw.

A A What caused the D.C. train wreck? A A June 24: Officials in Washington, D.C., still dona TMt know what caused two commuter trains to collide, but there are several clues they are considering.

Today, public radio morning drive show "The Takeaway" appointed a new executive producer: MSNBC 's former VP of daytime programming Mark Effron .

NBCa s Tom Brokaw sat down with President Obama in early June, 2009, for an exclusive interview the one day after Obama delivered a speech bowing to the Muslim world.

Tom Brokaw: Tom Brokaw is a Special Correspondent for NBC News. During 2008, he served as the Interim Moderator on Meet the Press.

June 5: TODAY's Meredith Vieira checks in with Bryan and Jenny Masche and their six toddlers, who are about to turn 2. Most popular video A A Debris reportedly not from French jet June 5: Amid reports that debris found in the Atlantic is not from a missing Air France jet, investigators are looking at whether instruments malfunctioned and the plane ...

April 29, 1994: American servicemen and English villagers mark the 50th anniversary of Exercise Tiger a ' a secret training mission that left 749 U.S. soldiers and sailors dead.

June 6: Recalling the "unimaginable hell" of D-Day, President Barack Obama paid tribute to the Allied landings that turned the tide of history.

Roger and Huguette Joret pose in front of their residence in Chef-du-Pont, northwestern France,A last month.

Much has been made of President Obama's "on the other hand" transition, in his speech yesterday, from the Holocaust to the travails of the Palestinians.

In 1954, the U.S. Army presented this obelisk as a tribute to the sacrifices made by 3,000 residents of the area around Slapton Sands, England, who "generously left their homes and their lands" to allow mock landings ahead of D-Day. However, it made no mention of the hundreds of American servicemen killed during Exercise Tiger.

President Obama signs a book FridayA in Germany's Dresden Castle a ' writing "Greetings from the people of the United States!" a ' as German Chancellor Angela Merkel, in yellow,A looks on.

April 29, 1994: American servicemen and English villagers mark the 50th anniversary of Exercise Tiger a ' a secret training mission that left 749 U.S. soldiers and sailors dead.

Tom Brokaw will make the first stop on his journey across America in a crabbing town in Maryland.

Morley Safer went part-time on CBS ' " 60 Minutes " a few seasons ago, which means he's supposed to do about six pieces a year.

Today, Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts officially launches a yearlong celebration of its 50th Anniversary with a commemorative ceremony in the Starr Theater at Alice Tully Hall.

Officials of the National World War II Museum announced details Thursday for a three-day grand opening of the museum's newest phase: a 70,000 square foot complex where visitors can experience the sights, sounds, tastes and feel of the way life was for American soldiers on the battlefield and for their folks back home.

Tom Brokaw often refers to them as "The Greatest Generation." As a journalist, traveling with Honor Flight to Washington DC May 1st and 2nd, it was one of the greatest assignments for me.

Entry from May 03, 2009 Generation Greed Entry in progress - B.P. Wikipedia: Greatest Generation The Greatest Generation is a term coined by journalist Tom Brokaw to describe the generation of Americans who grew up during the deprivation of the Great Depression, and then went on to fight in World War II, as well as those whose productivity within ...

Former NBC news anchor Tom Brokaw, the author of "The Greatest Generation," penned an op-ed for the New York Times last week that carried the intriguing headline: " Small-Town Big Spending ." In the piece he asked whether the nation's current economic woes present us with an opportunity to change the way our local governments have worked since the ...