President jimmy carter. Sara sidner was also at that ceremony and she joins me live from simi valley. Sara, it was a very moving, moving tribute. Reporter absolutely was. You know, for a generation that may not have known a lot about nancy reagan, they werent around when she was in the white house, you learned a lot about her from all of the different people who spoke and eulogized her. Everyone from former nbc news nightly anchor tom brokaw to her daughter, patti davis, who was really eloquent. She also let you into some of the struggles that they had and talked through the fact that they had a strained relationship but they had fixed that. Really what everyone really focused on was the love that she had for her husband. She was a fierce, fierce supporter of his. She watched over him and felt that her duty really was to be his wife and that was her number one priority. That really came through in all of this. We heard from the former Prime Minister of canada as well, brian mullroney w
Hillside that looks downslo slog valley to the pacific ocean. We have seen Johnny Mathis arrive, wayne newton, and its going to be that kind of day. Media luminaries, political and entertainment. A lot of our friends and colleagues and coworkers are out there to pay tribute and say farewell to this woman known to many of us. Chris matthews is among our contingent. Chris, at the funeral for ben bradley, bob woodward said this feels like the end of the 20th century. What do you reckon today will feel like in that room . Well, i guess it is about the 1980s. Especially in that time in which politics was so different than today. And we had all the arguments we have today, but they were conducted differently. I always thought that tip oneil and Ronald Reagan, my boss for all those years, the democratic speaker of the house and the republican conservative president disagreed on practically everything, but there was a national sense of urgency. The cold war still going on and problems like soc