Howard Baker served as senator from Tennessee, the Republican leader of the Senate, and the U.S. ambassador to Japan. Baker recently received the 2007 Dole Leadership Prize at the University of Kansas.
Engineer(s): Kaye McIntyre
Kaye starts her weekends the same way you do: with Weekend Edition, Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!, This American Life, and The Moth Radio Hour. She started at Kansas Public Radio in 2001; in 2006, she became the producer of our weekly public affairs program, KPR Presents, which changed its name in 2025 to Prairie Journal. In her spare time, she loves to read, travel, and attend theater.