moammar qaddafi. qaddafi was going on over there at that time. the bombing. i got married in germany. host: that is randy in fayetteville, north carolina. we are taking your calls throughout the morning on the washington journal and on c-span3 on american history tv. a few minutes ago we showed you president george h w bush's first public reaction to the news about the fall of the berlin wall on november 9, 1989. in that clip you saw you saw secretary of state james baker in the oval office with him. withlked with -- we talked secretary baker about his memories from that day, about being in the oval office that day and what it was like to watch the fall of the berlin wall from the white house. this is secretary baker from houston, texas, talking about where he was when he heard about the news on november 9, 1989. [video] >>

moammar qaddafi. qaddafi was going on over there at that time. the bombing. i got married in germany. host: that is randy in fayetteville, north carolina. we are taking your calls throughout the morning on the washington journal and on c-span3 on american history tv. a few minutes ago we showed you president george h w bush's first public reaction to the news about the fall of the berlin wall on november 9, 1989. in that clip you saw you saw secretary of state james baker in the oval office with him. withlked with -- we talked secretary baker about his memories from that day, about being in the oval office that day and what it was like to watch the fall of the berlin wall from the white house. this is secretary baker from houston, texas, talking about where he was when he heard about the news on november 9, 1989. [video] >> i was hosting a lunch for the president of the philippines in the dining room at the top of the state department. hers hosting a lunch for when an aide passed me a note saying the instrument government has just announced -- east has justve

moammar qaddafi. i remember qaddafi was going on over there at that time. the bombing. i got married in germany. we showed you george h. w. bush his first public reaction to the news about the fall of the berlin wall on november 9th 1989. in that clip that you saw you saw secretary of state james baker in the oval office with him and sees ben talked with secretary baker last week about his memories about being in the oval office that day in what it was like to watch the fall of the berlin wall from the white house. this is secretary baker from rice university down in houston texas talking about where he was when he heard about the news on november 9th 1989. >> i was hosting a lunch for the president in the philippines and at the state department at that time was the president of the philippines and was hosting a lunch for her when an aide passed me a note saying that the east german government had just announced that they were going to permit traffic from east germany to west germany i read the no to the assembled group at the table and proposed a toast an excused mysel

moammar qaddafi. qaddafi was going on over there at that time. the bombing. i got married in germany. host: that is randy in fayetteville, north carolina. we are taking your calls throughout the morning on the washington journal and on c-span3 on american history tv. a few minutes ago we showed you president george h w bush's first public reaction to the news about the fall of the berlin wall on november 9, 1989. in that clip you saw you saw secretary of state james baker in the oval office with him. withlked with -- we talked secretary baker about his memories from that day, about being in the oval office that day and what it was like to watch the fall of the berlin wall from the white house. this is secretary baker from houston, texas, talking about where he was when he heard about the news on november 9, 1989. [video] >> i was hosting a lunch for the president of the philippines in the dining room at the top of the state department. hers hosting a lunch for when an aide passed me a note saying the instrument government has just announced -- east has justve

moammar qaddafi. qaddafi was going on over there at that time. the bombing. i got married in germany. host: where he was when he heard about the news on november 9, 1989. [video] >> i was hosting a lunch for the president of the philippines in the dining room at the top of the state department. hers hosting a lunch for when an aide passed me a note saying the instrument government has just announced -- east has justvernment announced they will permit traffic from east germany to west germany. i read the note to the assembled group of the table. proposed a toast and then excused myself to go to the white house to meet with the president. host: do you were member what you said in the toast? >> i don't remember the words of the toast except it probably spoke to the importance of the to the concept of freedom presidentall american , democratic and republican had fought since harry truman. harry truman three george h w bush. i probably said some things about that. o beingber president akin quite moved by the news. host: what were your conversations like with presi