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NPR's Elizabeth Arnold reports that Presidential challenger Bob Dole began his day with a speech to Republican governors and business leaders in Detroit, where he said that the nation's GOP governors deserve credit for the economy's strength, not President Clinton.

. Dole is travelling by bus and appearing side by side with Governor Christine Todd Whitman.

NPR's Mara Liasson reports on Republican presidential hopeful Bob Dole's campaign trip to New Jersey today, where he talked about his 15 percent tax cut proposal. He was accompanied by N.J. Governor Christine Todd Whitman, whose own tax cut proposal three year's ago helped her with a come-from-behind victory on election day.

Danny speaks with Bob Barnett who has helped prepare presidential candidates for debates in the last six presidential campaigns. Mr. Barnett describes his own preperation in advance of playing the role of President Bush during then Governor Clinton's rehersals for the 1992 debates.

NPR's Mandalit Del Barco reports from Los Angeles how California officials are trying to sort out State food stamp policies within Federal Policy guidelines. As Governor Pete Wilson prepared to cut food stamp distribution to legal immigrants starting tomorrow, federal guidelines changed causing confusion throughout the state.

is in Okinawa to conclude a deal with the island's governor on the status of U.S. bases there. The agreement will allow the U.S. bases to remain despite last week's overwhelming referendum result that called for an end to the American presence there.

Crime was the campaign issue du jour, as both presidential candidates traveled to key battleground states today. Flanked by a group of Republican governors, Bob Dole unveiled an anti-crime proposal in suburban Philadelphia, in which he pledged to cut teenage drug use in half. President Clinton, meanwhile, traveled to Cincinnati, Ohio to receive the endorsement of the nation's largest police organization, the Fraternal Order of Police. NPR's Eric Westervelt reports on the Dole campaign; Mara Liasson reports on Clinton.

President Clinton began a three-day campaign swing today that will take him to Missouri, Colorado, Arizona and California. Today in Kansas City, the president addressed the annual meeting of the Southern Governors' Association and said that the welfare reform legislation he recently signed will only be successful if states and businesses can work together to create jobs. NPR's Mara Liasson reports.

finally got his way to end virtually all public aid to illegal immigrants. Yesterday, Wilson signed an executive order enforcing President Clinton's Welfare Reform Act, effectively achieving the goal of Proposition-187, which was struck down as unconstitutional two years ago by a federal court.

Linda visited the California delegation this morning to talk with some of the delegates about immigration issues and affirmative action. California Governor Pete Wilson signed an executive order yesterday directing all state agencies and state supported colleges to halt benefits to illegal immigrants. These delegates said they dislike illegal border crossing, but those who are already in this country and in need must have services provided to them, especially children. They say the Republicans are playing on people's fears with 30-second sound bytes. Many of these delegates are minority members, and say that affirmative action is a opportunity, not a quota system -- it's an open door to allow people to prove themselves.