First of all I was there at the inauguration of Nelson Mandela, with Prince Philip, with Douglas Hurd and it was a remarkable, a remarkable time because I'd been with Nelson just a year before and he didn't look as though anything like that was ever going to happen.

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Ben Nelson, D-Nebraska, in a letter to the president last month.

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But perhaps the final word should be left to Oborne, who describes D'Oliveira's meeting with Nelson Mandela a few years after a coaching trip to South Africa.

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Bill Nelson, D-Florida, has proposed Florida Democrats get a chance to vote again using mail-in ballot, saying a full primary using regular voting machines would be prohibitively expensive.

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