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my colleague charlayne hunter-gault was there the day mandela was released and covered him in the epic making events in south africa in the years that followed and joins me no. first of all, nice to see you again. >> nice to be here again. you know, whaemerges from these letters that we perhaps didn't know, thi ws man was both private and public? >> actually, jeff, i think that we get into the interior man, some of the pain that he went through, some oin the prples that he continued to stand for, no matter th terrible conditions under which he and e fellow prisoners lived, and then the love of his family, starting with winnie and his children, and the larger family. so it's things we never heard before. >> let's start with that part. we pulled excerpts from some of these letters i want to start with one that is very personal. this is from after he got a photo from winnie. >> april 2, 1969. all i wish to say now is that the pictures has aroused all the teer feelings in me an softened the grimness that is all around. it's sharpened my long for you and our sweet and peaceful home. all of