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ophthacare SHAPIRO: Right. It's hard to overstate the impact of Mandela on Obama, personally. The president said, as he has in previous occasions, that his first political experience was as a college student working against apartheid. And that moment, he says, taught him the power of the individual. It's something that when he was in Africa he talked about in the context of the impact that one person can have, one person who might have been listening to him speak in Africa.