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Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas sat with Morning Edition to discuss the president's approach to migrant arrivals and where he feels the strategy has worked.

The British band hasn't had a chart-topping album in a decade, but it pulled out all the stops to promote its latest, Moon Music, including selling more than a dozen different versions of the album.

For some insight into the fighter pilot culture, Linda talks with Captain Rosemary Mariner, a retired Navy Captain Aviator. She was trained to fly planes like the fighter that collided with the US reconnaissance plane. Mariner is now a Research Fellow for the University of Tennessee, Center for the Study for War and Society.

Joined by Italy's prime minister, the president took questions from reporters Monday. He discussed border security and said he would be willing to meet with Iran's leaders with "no preconditions."

DANIEL JONAH GOLDHAGEN is the author of the controversial book "Hitler's Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust" (Vintage Books, paperback). In the book he offers evidence that ordinary Germans knowingly cooperated in the Holocaust, that they were motivated by anti-Semitism not by economic hardship, coercion, or psychological pressures, as usually put forth by historians. GOLDHAGEN is Associate Professor of Government and Social Studies at Harvard University. SAUL FRIEDLANDER is the author of "Nazi Germany and the Jews, Vo. 1: The Years of Persecution 1933-1939" (HarperCollins). In the book he examines the period looking at how Hitler's "murderous rage" and ideologies, converged with internal political pressures, and attitudes of German and European societies to create the Holocaust. FRIEDLANDER is also the author of the memoir "When Memory Comes" (Farrar Straus Giroux). He was born in Prague and was seven when his parents "hid" him in a Catholic seminary in France where he took on a new identity. His parents died in the Holocaust. It wasn't until years later as FRIEDLANDER was studying for the priesthood, that he rediscovered his Jewish heritage. FREIDLANDER teaches at Tel Aviv University and at UCLA. (THIS INTERVIEW CONTINUES THRU THE SECOND HALF OF THE SHOW)12:28:30 FORWARD PROMO (:29)12:29:00 I.D. BREAK (:59)12:30:00 SAUL FRIEDLANDER interview cont'd.Floating :30 I.D 12:35 and 12:45]SAUL FRIEDLANDER interview cont'd.12:58:30 NEXT SHOW PROMO (:29) PROMO COPYOn today's Fresh air -- re-examining the Holocaust. . .Terry Gross talks with DANIEL JONAH GOLDHAGEN, (pronounced GOLD-hay-gen) author of the controversial bestseller, "Hitler's Willing Executioners" about how ordinary Germans knowingly cooperated in the Holocaust...Then a look at the early days of the Nazi regime and the forces that converged to create the Holocaust. . . with historian SAUL FRIEDLANDER, author of volume one of "Nazi Germany and the Jews." His own parents were killed in the Holocaust, and during the war he was sent to a Catholic seminary where he assumed a new identity. That's coming up on today's Fresh Air.

“W” is for Wilson, Charles Coker (1864-1933). Architect. In 1914 Charles Coker Wilson became the first twentieth-century South Carolinian to be named a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects.

President Biden said the pardons are not an "acknowledgment that any individual engaged in any wrongdoing" but rather protect individuals from "unjustified and politically motivated prosectutions."

President Bush named top White House economic adviser Ben Bernanke as chairman of the Federal Reserve Board on Monday to succeed the near-legendary Alan Greenspan.

Rescue crews pulled more survivors, including entire families, from toppled buildings despite diminishing hopes as the death toll of the quake in Turkey and Syria surpassed 28,000.

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