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Nelson Mandela

<p>U.S. Vice President Al Gore (L) and Speaker of the House Tom Foley (R) join the audience as they cheer for South African President Nelson Mandela while he delivers remarks to a joint meeting of Congress in Washington DC, on October 6, 1994. (Photo courtesy of Getty Images)</p>

<p>While campaigning for president, Mandela makes sure to stop and thank members of the South African Defense Forces for their support during South Africa's first ever post-apartheid election in 1994. (Photo courtesy of Getty Images)</p>

<p>Philanthropists unite as Nelson Mandela and pop sensation Michael Jackson embrace in Kwazulu-Natal on July 20, 1996, after a brief meeting (Photo by AFP/Getty Images)</p>

<p>South African President Nelson Mandela is welcomed into the U.S. with open arms as he shakes hands with President Bill Clinton in the Oval Office in 1999, the finsl year that Mandela served as president. (Photo courtesy of Getty Images)</p>

<p>Nelson Mandela and Oprah Winfrey don matching construction hard hats to break the ground for her $10 million Leadership Academy for Girls in South Africa in 2002. She described Mandela as her "hero" and he called her a "queen." (Photo courtesy of Getty Images)</p>

<p>Brandishing the prison number that plagued him in prison for more than 20 years, Nelson Mandela speaks at the "46664 Artic" concert, which was meant to raise awareness and funds for HIV/AIDS, on June 11, 2005, in Norway. (Photo by Getty Images)</p>

<p>Nelson Mandela was the leader of the African National Congress in the 1960s before he was later sentenced to life in prison for sabotage. (Photo courtesy of Getty Images)</p>

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