>> this weekend, on american history tv, on c-span3, today at 8 a.m. eastern on real america, general secretary gorbachev. , if youu seek peace seek prosperity for the soviet union and eastern europe, if you seek liberalization, come here to this date. mr. gorbachev, open this gate. [applause] mr. gorbachev, tear down this wall. [applause] >> president ronald reagan's 1987 trip to berlin. professor a college on how the baby boom and the emergence of tea culture changed

post-world war ii society. >> to get a separate youth culture, advertisers are looking at this, young people begin to style ofir own success. there is a kind of segregation, separation, of culture from mainstream culture. >> sunday at 8 p.m. eastern, on the presidency, the 45th anniversary of the water did break in -- watergate break-in. a look into the watergate scandal. >> the white house phone rings, and i instantly assume it is that dreaded call from next and. the conversation that is surprisingly brief. us to meetnt wants .im up at 1:30 p.m. that day when the white house phone rings again, i fight to stay composed. that was ron, the press

secretary. .e is at camp david too he believed john and i should resign. >> for the complete schedule go to c-span.org. >> sunday on q and a. >> barack is committed to presenting his story and i think that is different from history. >> part one of the interview with david gero. he talks about his book "rising star: the making of barack obama." >> i think that's barack's political aspirations and sense of destiny leads him to push sheila a side. during that time, there was a well-known political figure in chicago, hugely respected man,

did new house. everyone believed that he could never go higher because he was married to a white woman. it is in the political tradition of a black chicago and the lady 1980's -- in the late 1980's, that for a black man to aspire isrepresent black chicago necessary to have a black spouse. >> sunday night at 8 p.m. eastern, on q&a. been 45 years since the break-in at the watergate hotel. on june 17, 1972. on a tour of the watergate exhibit at the richard nixon presidential library and museum, timothy explains what happened. you can listen to the president himself with interviews after he left office, not by us, but by the private mix and foundation.

he talks about dirty tricks. >> this thing happens in campaigns. i don't particularly like it. that theike to see aterjected and what should be high-level presidential campaign. but, it is going to happen because people argument. >> you get a sense of the extent -- of theelopment involvement of the legal campaign activities. that first makes its appearance on the wall in 1971 has reappeared and the story of these illegal activities, that and you up for the break-in the consequence of the break-in. a $200,000 budget to engage in legal blogging and

tricks -- legal bugging and dirty tricks. they broke into watergate and that was where the committee was. tricks --it was a successful bd they put in a couple listening devices. the take isn't very good. again onde to break-in june 17, 1972. they were captured early in the morning. gotten theu have sense of who hunt is, the cubans are, and the extent at which the white house, not just the president, are linked, you get a sense of how terrifying for the white house this break -- failed reagan would be. -- failed break-in would be. is, with the fbi and u.s. attorney be able to make the connection between that's group and hunt and lady.

of course, if they make the link to them, can they make the link back to the committee to reelect the president? if they make the link to them, can they link hunt and liddy back to the operation of the plumbers in units including the legal break-in of the office? can they link hunt to the operations that the president ordered chuck to undertake. chuck used olson for some of them. why as we layout through here, the white house undertakes an extensive cover-up. member's, ifhis the cia could deflect the fbi for months, they would protect us from the only white house corner ability involving watergate and that i was worried about exposing. not the break-in, but the political activities hunt had

undertaken. the lays out vulnerabilities that existed for him as a result of the failed reagan of the watergate facility. >> visit our website at to watch thestory entire to work of the exhibit at the presidential library and museum. this is american history tv. only on c-span3. sunday night on afterwards, mike lee talks about forgotten historical figures that fought against the government in his book "risen out of history." -- "written out of history." >> if you are on the lookout, they come to you gradually. people who thought should get more credit than the gets. chief from thean

tribe and he understood the principle of federalism. this is before we were our own country. i was intrigued by that because it is not a name that most americans know anything about. it had a profound impact on our system of government. is the guy who enabled benjamin franklin. he was the conduit which flowed to the rest of the founders. perfect way, into the constitution. >> watch afterwards sunday night. next, on history bookshelf, christopher dickey talks about his book our man in charleston and the civil war of the south. he recalls the role played by robert botch. that was the british consul assigned to the council itself to line up. this