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. >> coming up, we'll talk to two former reagan white house chiefs of staff, james baker and ken duberstein. and a look backstage at the reagan white house with former top aide gayle burt. plus the reagan love story, captured in a letter from the president to mrs. reagan that she read for an nbc special. >> dear first lady, as president of the united states, it's my honor and privilege to cite you for service above and beyond the call of duty and that you have made one man, me, the most happy man in the world for 29 years. >> good day, everyone. i'm andrea mitchell in washington. today the nation is remembering nancy reagan. she died in her los angeles home yesterday of congestive heart failure. she was 94 years old. mrs. reagan will be buried later this week beside her husband at the ronald reagan presidential library in simi valley, california. she's being remembered today as a loyal adviser, a confidant, a soulmate to president reagan, in a love story that could be a hollywood movie. but nancy's also being remembered as a shrewd deal maker and a groundbreaker in her own right. i'm joined

ken duberstein, we've heard him discussed as a former chief of staff late in the reagan presidency.od to see you, old friend, and by old friend i mean not, of course, old, but i have known you for a long time. >> likewise, brian. >> what are your thoughts about nancy reagan today? >> oh, she's with her ronnie. i think she's spending nonstop time filling him in on all the gossip since he passed away ten years ago. you know, she was so devoted to him. she put her life on hold so that she single mindedly focused on him. one of your other guests said -- i guess it was bob, said something about ronald reagan didn't like firing people. he trusted everybody. she was the verifier. she is the one who could tell whether the people were on her husband's agenda or they had their own agenda. she was absolutely fundamental to everything that the president did and everything he accomplished whether it was with gorbachev or with tip o'neill. she believed in governing, as he did. she believed in reaching across the aisle. yes, we were all republicans, but we also had the democrats and we needed to b

those of us who came in, myself, frank carlucci, national security adviser, howard baker and ken duberstein's office. she was a friend and ally and she cowl be an adversary if she didn't like what was going on. >> can you give us an example. >> she was a dominant presence in the white house. a good example of that was, the don regan case is a classic example when she knew don regan had to be moved on as chief of staff and bring in howard baker. she merely leaked it to the press and the press had is on cnn. i was the deputy national security adviser and my boss frank carlucci said have you seen television? i said yes. he said i wonder if don knows. and it was frank carlucci who went to don's office. did you resign? it's on television. and don looked up bewildered and he immediately wrote his resignation letter, took it to the president's office and left the white house. >> wow. >> that's hardball, fellows. >> you tell a great story, if she was gone for too long, those of you would say, we need to get her back here. tell us about how he depend on her. >> it was total. you said it earlier in t

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now he's tackling someone different, white house adviser ken duberstein in "con firmation" about justice clarence thomas's confirmation to the supreme court and al gags from anita hill. i got to speak to eric earlier. >> glad to finally be here. >> just remember, some of the democrats on the committee will be a hard sell. worst case, seven vote against you. that's still seven voting for you. >> and a tie takes you to the senate where we are in great shape. >> vep with the majority? >> as popular as the president is the number could go higher. don't worry if you catch some heat. >> good to know, thank you. >> get in there. >> eric stonestreet, good morning. good to meet you. >> good to see you. >> the timing on the film couldn't be better given what's happening in washington now. >> with the untimely death of justice scalia and now certainly hbo didn't anticipate the topic being so relevant now. >> you play a guy well known in washington, chief of staff to ronald reagan. >> yep. >> what role did he play in the process? >> he was hired to shepherd clarence thomas through the process. be th