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PREVIEW: #SMALL BUSINESS: Conversation with colleague Gene Marks re the critical advantage to establishing 401(k) plans for small businesses - and how the US government can make setting up easy and low cost. More detail tonight.

1956 

PREVIEW: #GERMANY: #NSDAP: Conversation with author Timothy Ryback for his new work, TAKEOVER, re the 1932-33 rise of the NSDAP (Nazi) Party - and the critical role taken by Gregor Strasser, a co-partner with Hitler who was murdered on the night of the Long Knives as the Hitlerites consolidated in 1934. Much more of this tonight and next week.

1937 Berlin

PREVIEW: #MARS: Conversation with colleague Bob Zimmerman re new studies based on modeling that indicate the long voyages to and from Mars are profound health threats without present solutions - in particular, damage by cosmic rays. More later.

1957

PREVIEW: #GATES: #SODIUM REACTOR: Conversation with colleague Henry Sokolski on the announcement that a Bill Gates-founded company, TerraPower, has started building a Natrium Nuclear Energy Plant in Wyoming - and what to make of the claim that it is safer than existing hot water reactors. More detail later.

1979 Three Mile Island PA

PREVIEW: #FRANCE: Conversation with colleague Lord Conrad Black in Toronto re the savvy decision by President Emmanuel Macron to call a snap election on June 30 and July 7. More tonight.

1909 Bonaparte and his mother and sisters.

PREVIEW: #ITALIA: #G7: Conversation with colleague Lorenzo Fiori in Genoa re the leadership success of Italian PM Giorgia Meloni at the G7 meeting near Bari, Italy. Much more tonight.

1778 Rome