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Even though it's mid-May, milder weather has yet to make its way up the 6,288-foot peak in New Hampshire.

Karen Gibson and her two top assistants make up the first all-female leadership team since the office was established in 1789.

On the same day that Santorum would be covering himself, figuratively, in Reagan's jelly beans, Romney was scheduled to announce his receipt of the endorsement of the pork-rind lover in chief, George H. W. Bush, the man who was Reagan's vice president and who became the 41st president.

The president is on the final leg of his visit to Africa. On Tuesday, he and former President George W. Bush will join together for a wreath-laying ceremony at the site of the 1998 bombing at the U.S. Embassy.

Singer/Songwriter JIMMIE DALE GILMORE is in the studio for a concert. His music bears the influence of honky-tonk, Tex-Mex rhythms, and country and western. His spiritual influences include Hinduism and writers such as Aldous Huxley and W. Somerset Maugham. GILMORE is the kind of performer who defies definition, though he has been called the "Shaman of the Sagebrush." GILMORE's been playing music for over 20 years, first with the critically-acclaimed group the Flatlanders, then solo. He says he's "never made music out of the drive to be fashionable." He dropped out of performing for almost ten years to study with a guru. He has a new album, "Spinning Around the Sun." (Elektra).

Many of the downed live oaks left by Katrina are now safely in storage at the Mystic Seaport in Connecticut. The wood is invaluable for ship restoration, and the whaler Charles W. Morgan, built in 1841, will be the immediate beneficiary.

1: EDDIE MULLER has collaborated in the new book, "Grindhouse: The Forbidden World of 'Adults Only' Cinema" (w/Daniel Faris, St. Martin's Press). The book is a visual history of adult cinema and all it's paraphernalia (posters/advertisements/lobby cards) from the 1920s thru the 1970s. Many of the items used in the book, MULLER rescued from a dumpster of an old theatre in San Francisco. MULLER is a journalist and is founder and director of the San Francisco Historical Boxing Museum.

All Things Considered's coverage of the Florida vote tally continues. We hear a few of the comments made by Florida Secretary of State Katherine Harris declaring George W. Bush to be ahead of Al Gore in the vote count, and ordering that any counties continuing to count votes explain their actions to her by tomorrow afternoon. We hear some of the response by Gore Campaign Chairman William Daley. And NPR's Debbie Elliott joins host Robert Siegel from Tallahassee, Florida to discuss tonight's developments. We also hear from NPR's Adam Hochberg in Palm Beach County, where a hand count of the vote is scheduled to get started again on Wednesday morning, in spite of the statement by Florida State Secretary Katherine Harris.

Caspar W. Weinberger, who served in the Nixon and Reagan cabinets as secretary of health, education and welfare and secretary of defense, has died at age 88. Nicknamed "Cap the Knife" for his budget-cutting reputation, he became a central figure in the Iran-Contra scandal.

A Vanity Fair article names W. Mark Felt as the anonymous source "Deep Throat," who helped Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein unravel the Watergate scandal in 1974.