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Noah talks with Colonel John R. Bourgeois (BOOR-zhwa), who is retiring today after seventeen years as the director of "The President's Own" U.S. Marine Band. The band, once led by the legendary John Philip Sousa, has only had twenty-five directors in its history. Tonight marks Col. Bourgeois's last time conducting the group.

Renee Montagne talks to Louisiana bluesman Tab Benoit about his new CD, Voice of the Wetlands. Benoit and an all-star group of Louisiana musicians recorded the album in January to call attention to the state's vanishing wetlands.

Journalist RICHARD KLUGER. He's written a new history of the tobacco industry in America: "Ashes to Ashes: America's Hundred-Year Cigarette War, the Public Health, and the Unabashed Triumph of Philip Morris." (Knopf). KLUGER was literary editor of the New York Herald Tribune. He also wrote for The Wall Street Journal and the New York Post.

Untreated wastewater flows from Tijuana, Mexico, into the Pacific Ocean near the California border. Sasha Khokha of NPR station KQED says the U.S. government is expected to endorse a much-debated treatment plant.

The laws date to the 1850s, but have rarely been invoked. However, two recent cases have put the law in the spotlight, and critics say the measure is being abused.

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has been discharged from New York Presbyterian Hospital, where she was admitted Sunday for treatment of a blood clot that followed a concussion she suffered after fainting.

As part of our encore presentation of our series on American popular son, we remember the late lyricist DOROTHY FIELDS. Born in 1905, She was the only woman in the pre-rock era to sustain major critical and popular acclaim as a songwriter. First, We feature singer BECKY KILGORE and pianist DAVE FRISHBERG perform music by Dorothy Fields. Biographer DEBORAH GRACE WINER talks about Fields life and music.Winer is author of "On the Sunny Side of the Street: The Life and Lyrics of Dorothy Fields." PHILIP FURIA talks specifically about the lyrics DOROTHY FIELDS wrote. Furia is Chairman of the English Department at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington. He is also author of "Poets of Tin Pan Alley." (These interviews and performances continue in the second half of the show.)12:28:30 FORWARD PROMO (:29)12:29:00 I.D. BREAK (:59)12:30:00...

Maps do more than help us get around, Simon Garfield makes evident in his tour through the history and science of map-making. They can unlock vast wealth, solve mysteries of science, project political power — even trace the outlines of the divine.

Carl reads political slogans, our panelists identify which ones are real and which ones we just made up.

The secretary of state has been recuperating from a stomach virus and a concussion she suffered when she fainted and fell. Congressional committees have been waiting for her to come testify about the attack on the U.S. mission in Benghazi, Libya.