This is the story of two very different American presidents and how they each answered their emergency Libyan phone calls.First, the story of Ronald Reagan. When he got a call about trouble with Libya it was in August of 1981 and I happened to be having dinner with him and Nancy in Los Angeles.We had just finished eating and were having coffee when Ed Meese phoned. Meese was my father’s top policy adviser, and there was a serious military crisis brewing in the Mediterranean.At the time, the United States Navy was conducting war exercises in international waters in the Gulf of Sidra off the Libyan coast.Since 1973 Moammar Gadhafi had claimed the gulf was part of Libya’s territorial waters and had “drawn a line” in the water that no one could cross.The United States ignored the claim, which clearly violated international law, and during naval maneuvers in 1973 and again in the fall of 1980 our reconnaissance planes were fired on by Libyan fighter planes.Jimmy Carter had cancelled American war games in the Gulf of Sidra because he didn’t want to upset Gadhafi.