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Of planning, and in just the last several minutes, don't really have anything more on that, about you as you heard the president saying in his brief remarks just a few moments ago, obviously nelson mandela is one of his heroes, somebody who touched president obama's life when he was a young man in occidental college many years ago, the first political act as a young man was to go to an anti-apartheid rally. that stayed with president obama all through his life. nelson mandela was sort of always with president obama, and as you heard in the white house briefing room, he said nelson mandela is n...

Market he would have left on earth. >> well said, senator tim scott. thank you very much. these are live pictures from johannesburg. nelson mandela's home, where the people of south africa, black and white, they are remembering this great leader, and we're remembering nelson mandela. our special coverage here in "the situation room" will continue right after this.

Say south africa is there for all its people, black, white and all south africans should feel at home. he was a great unifier and a very, very special man in this regard, beyond everything else he did. this emphasis on reconciliation was his biggest legacy. >> president de klerk, thank you so much. it's very late your time. thank you for giving us the first reaction to the passing of your old comrade in arms on the road to democracy. thank you very much indeed. wolf, going back to you now, not forgetting, wolf, that it actually was the united states, the people of the united states, all those ...

The objections of the then reagan administration, and that had a massive effect of concentrating the minds of the apartheid leaders at that time. >> it certainly did. f.w. de klerk remembers those days, he was the president of south africa and he helped make that transition when he saw the handwriting on the wall, and then as you pointed out with him back in 1993, both he and nelson mandela shared that nobel peace prize. we just got a statement, christiane, in from former president bill clinton on the passing of nelson mandela. let me just read it to our viewers, because he truly did love nels...

Clerk what did you think when you first saw him, what was your impression? and he said you know, even though i had been briefed, even though i had done my homework, even though i had been told so much about him, i was staggered when i first met him, the dignity of this man, the physical size, the tallness, the slim bearing that was so proud, really impressed him a lot. their first meeting, he told me, was one just to get together. he had summoned mandela from the prison and they just had a get-together meeting that first time, and then that led to the gradual partnership that dismantled aparth...