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This week on "Sunday Morning" (Feb. 18)

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You can also download the free "Sunday Morning" audio podcast at iTunes and at Play.it. Now you'll never miss the trumpet!


       
COVER STORY:
Infidelity: Why the oldest taboo continues to be broken
The overwhelming majority of Americans believe infidelity is morally wrong - more than believe it of cloning, or suicide. Yet, why do so many people cheat?

Tony Dokoupil talks with licensed couples therapist Esther Perel, Kinsey Institute researcher Helen Fisher, and the president of the company behind Ashley Madison, as well as two women who strayed outside their marriages for very different reasons.

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ALMANAC:
Vanna White | Watch Video
On February 18, 1957, the irreplaceable letter-turner on the game show "Wheel of Fortune" was born. Jane Pauley reports.

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President Andrew Johnson, the successor to Abraham Lincoln, whose battles with Congress over healing a war-ravaged nation led to his impeachment. National Portrait Gallery

THE WHITE HOUSE: Andrew Johnson: The unfortunate president | Watch Video
Raised in poverty, uneducated, a working class figure whose political ethos was "my way or the highway," Andrew Johnson's surprising rise to the Oval Office upon Abraham Lincoln's assassination was followed by a torturous relationship with Congress and the first impeachment of a U.S. president. Mo Rocca looks back at the life of the Southern Democrat who was one of America's most unfortunate chief executives.

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Willem Dafoe received his third Oscar nominations, as Best Supporting Actor, for the film "The Florida Project." CBS News

"THE ENVELOPE, PLEASE…": Willem Dafoe: The actor's quest for challenges | Watch Video
Martha Teichner profiles the stage and screen actor, star of "Platoon" and "The Last Temptation of Christ," who is nominated for his third Oscar, for "The Florida Project."

GALLERY: Willem Dafoe

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At La Casa del Abuelo, Seth Doane and James Blick partake of gambas al ajillo (shrimp-scampi). CBS News

POSTCARD FROM SPAIN: A moveable feast: Taking a tapas bar crawl through Madrid | Watch Video
Correspondent Seth Doane does a tapas bar crawl through Madrid. The strolling meal, partaking of many small plates and drinks, is a Spanish tradition. 

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HARTMAN:
 "Wish You Were Here" (Video)
David Lasseter misses his four kids, so practically every day they're not home in Valdosta, Georgia, he sends them a postcard - creative correspondence that really only conveys one, important message. Steve Hartman reports.        

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Singer Jimmy Buffett with correspondent Tracy Smith in the Big Easy. CBS News

ON STAGE: Jimmy Buffett and "Margaritaville" come to Broadway | Watch Video
Tracy Smith profiles the singer-songwriter whose music is now the focus of a Broadway musical, "Escape to Margaritaville."

To view a trailer for "Escape to Margaritaville," click on the player below:

Escape to Margaritaville - Sailing Onto Broadway! by Escape to Margaritaville The Musical on YouTube

FROM THE ARCHIVES: Jimmy Buffett and the "Parrotheads" (Video)
Correspondent Bill Geist visits with singer-songwriter Jimmy Buffett, famous for his 1977 hit "Margaritaville," and for his music's beach-bum flavor that draws thousands of "parrotheads" to his concerts - even in Cincinnati, far from the sub-tropical splendor of the Florida Keys. Originally broadcast August 30, 1991.

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Artist Amy Sherald, right, poses with her portrait of Michelle Obama and the former first lady, during an unveiling ceremony at the Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery, Monday, Feb. 12, 2018, in Washington, D.C. Andrew Harnik/AP

ART: A portrait of artist Amy Sherald | Watch Video
Alex Wagner profiles the artist whose painting of former first lady Michelle Obama was unveiled this week at the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C.

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OPINION:
 Fla. school shooting survivor David Hogg says: Speak out | Watch Video
The 17-year-old head of the student TV station at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., talks about Wednesday's mass shooting that killed seventeen classmates and teachers.

  
OPINION:
 Faith Salie on threat of mass shootings: Do something | Watch Video
The "Sunday Morning" Contributor says America's founding fathers who crafted our Constitution would want us to prevent America's children from being massacred.

    
CALENDAR:
Week of February 19 | Watch Video
"Sunday Morning" takes a look at some notable events of the week ahead. Jane Pauley reports.

    
NATURE:
 Everglades National Park (Video)
We leave you this Sunday Morning at Everglades National Park in Florida, championed in the last century by writer Marjory Stoneman Douglas, for whom the high school targeted in Wednesday's attack was named.


WEB EXCLUSIVES:

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Chadwick Boseman in "Black Panther." Marvel/Disney

MOVIES: David Edelstein reviews "Black Panther" | Watch Video

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