lining up to say farewell to nelson mandela. his body is lying in state in pretoria before a burial on sunday. vice president joe biden attended a memorial here in washington. he called him the most impressive person he had ever met. americans of both parties have been praising nelson mandela and his legacy, including ann romney, who joins us in the situation room. what has nelson mandela meant to you and your husband? you know, i think there s maybe not a person living who has had a bigger impact, not just on africans ease lives, but everybody s life. i think he was the most extraordinary example of forgiveness, of kindness, of generosity. i don t know if there s anyone that is held in higher estem in the world than nelson mandela. he was a powerful example in my life, a powerful example in my
were willing to take on the hard issues of our time at a very, very difficult moment if our nation s history, spanning the difference between two very different centuries, the 21st and 20th centuries. i have enjoyed this assignment immensely because of this willi willingness to engage these issues, and i believe where we are today, and how the united states is held in the estem of the rest of the world is an accomplishment that i frarngly find astonishing in such ra short period of time, and mr. president, we owe all of this to your leadership, and i thank you for letting me be a part of it. i would also like to emphasize that i thoroughly enjoyed working with the vice president, and i d like to also mention that the first lady and dr. biden have been an inspiration to all military families and men