\[applause] >> and feel free to e-mail me, ma ross. i would love to hear from you.thank you for coming. \[applause] >> you are watching american history tv, all weekend, every weekend on c-span3. to join the conversation, like us on facebook. >> on november 15, 1980 9, 6 days after the fall of the berlin wall, political aquiline -- political activist like walesa addressed a joint meeting of the u.s. congress and spoke about relations with the soviet union and political changes on the way in this country and throughout eastern europe. this program is about one hour. walesa,peaker, mr. like -- [applause] >> it was 10 years ago, in august 1980 in the famous strike which like the emergence of the first independent trade union in a, this country which soon became a vast social movement supported by the polish nation. >> [speaking polish] ,> i was 10 years younger unknown to anybody but my friends in the shipyard and somewhat slimmer. [laughter] polish] ing >> my friends would say this is important. an unemployed man at that time, fired from my job for an attempt to organ

[applause] >> and feel free to e-mail me, ma ross. i would love to hear from you. thank you for coming. [applause] >> join american history tv next saturday for all day live overage of a world war i centennial symposium from norfolk, virginia. we'll hear from scholars about the war. we welcome your calls, facebook posts and tweets. and sean mcmeek an, author of the berlin baghdad express. that's next saturday starting at 9:30 a.m. eastern here on american history tv. >> the c-span cities tour takes book t and american history tv on the road traveling to u.s. cities to learn about their history and literary life. next week we go to madison, wisconsin. it is a glorious service, this service for the country. the call comes to every citizen. it is an unending struggle to make and keep government representative. >> he's probably the most important political figure in wisconsin history and one of the most important in the history of the 20th century in the united states. he was a reforming governor. he defined what progressivism is. he was one of the first to use the ter