zhou enlai and mao both died in the same year. they were both ill and they both knew it a they both knew they did not have long to live. and in those last years, mao began to push zhou enlai aside. partly becse he was too close to kissinger and too involved in america. partly bause he had cancer and he put deng in his place. and at that point zhou enlai and deng again developed a very close corporateive relationship where ou enlai in a way was a mentor for deng in learning about foreignolicy, learning about leadership of government organizations and they worked very closely together the very last years of zhou enlai's life. and when zhou enlai died, deng was allowed to give the funeral oration because they had worked so closely in the end. >> rose: who decided on that? >> mao had to give his approval. there was a man who was the marshal who was the one that advocated it. he became the key maker after... the king maker after mao's death and that person... before mao died... because zhou enlai died first that mao gave a prudential t

because zhou enlai died. first that mao gave a prudential to his request. >> rose: who was opposing deng chao peng's action at tiananmen? >> none of the high-level leaders at that point opposed him. but deng had split with who y you bong who died just before the beginning of tiananmen. >> rose: and his relationship with mao or... >> huh you bong had been very close to zhou enlai until the time and in the early 1980s when deng had him appointed as general secretary of the party they worked very closely together. but deng felt he wasn't toug enough he'd been head of the youth league while deng was head of the party in '56 to '66. as head of the youth league he tried to encourage young people and give hope and talk about all the idealistic things they could achieve. deng as head of the party was the one... the buck stops there and he felt responsible for the country. earl the early 80s when lee y bong was encouraging people, dung felt he went to move too far. he had encouraged him to do that some but he went too