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This sense of how they embrace him. >> rick stengel who co-authored mandelas biography, "long walk to freedom." did mandela like the first name given to him first day of school? >> of all time i spent with him, i dont remember everyone ever calling him nelson except for the queen and i wasnt there when that happened. its funny. you were talking about it before. pfs a methodist school near qunu. had he a white african teacher. to go back to him growing up there. one of the reasons he had such gre...

Emulating and treasuring his memory. >> thank you. cameron a young man very moved by the mandela experience. >> absolutely. he mentioned the queen and their relationship. there was sort of a charming relationship between mandela and the queen. besides the fact he can call her elizabeth because she is a rather stickler for protocol. >> i wonder how that went down the first time he did it? >> wouldnt have cared because she called him nelson and he thought im going to call her elizabeth. once when ...

Troublemaker. >> i love that. >> its so -- >> that was his birth name, troublemaker was extraordinary. >> when i started working with him, i never, ever heard anyone call him nelson. at the same time, he wasnt president yet. i heard people use his clan name modiba. it shows his background and its paternal and just stuck. so thats -- everybody called him modiba. >> the courage it took in the 50s, the 60s, this regime that attempted to have absolute control. its hard i think for anybody who didnt ...

Thoughts on his passing? >> goodness, thank you, anderson. first of all, their relationship. i think to understand the sacrifice that madiba made going to prison which is so difficult. we can put words to it and faith m 27 years but how does anyone know what that means? when you met winnie mandela and i met her in the 80s and yes encountered the incredible beauty and presence and eloquence of this woman, you understood the sacrifice that this man made when he left this woman through his commitme...

Television station when mandala was president. so shes kind of gotten to know him well, so to speak. tell us more about him. >> i had the pleasure of introducing mandala to events. one was the opening of the sos childrens villages and another one was the greek businessman of the year, because he was mandalas lawyer and he was greek. mandala grew up in the rural area of africa, at the circumcision, 16 years old, he goes, i am now a man and at that point he enters manhood and one of the chiefs say...