Sunday Breakfast Menu, Dec. 8

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Nelson Mandela, the first black president of South Africa, died Thursday, leaving many to eulogize and honor the world leader. Mr. Mandela led his country’s emancipation from white minority control, after spending 27 years in prison for opposing apartheid rule. Many Sunday shows will celebrate the life and legacy of Mr. Mandela, gathering guests who knew him both personally and professionally.

A six-month interim nuclear deal with Iran, signed by six world powers, including the United States, last month, has drawn both praise and criticism from political leaders. The deal aims to ease painful economic sanctions on Iran in return for a freeze on part of the country’s nuclear program.

Both subjects are likely to dominate the conversation on the Sunday morning news shows.

Guests on ABC’s “This Week” will include Jendayi Frazer, a former United States ambassador to South Africa; Stan Greenberg, who was a pollster for Mr. Mandela; Bill Keller, a former South Africa bureau chief for The New York Times who has written a biography of Mr. Mandela; and Gary McDougall, who was a member of the electoral commission that oversaw the South Africa’s first democratic elections in 1994. Also on the show, Senators Dick Durbin, Democrat of Illinois, and Rob Portman, Republican of Ohio, will go toe-to-toe over the budget and income inequality, topics President Obama has addressed directly this past week.

The poet Maya Angelou, who first met Mr. Mandela in the 1960s and published a poem Friday in honor of the former president, will appear on CBS’s “Face the Nation.” She will be joined by James Baker, former secretary of state, who was the first high-level American official to meet with Mr. Mandela after his release from prison in 1990, and Randall Robinson, the founder of TransAfrica, the oldest African-American foreign policy organization.

On “Fox News Sunday,” South Africa’s former foreign minister, Pik Botha, will share his reflections on Mr. Mandela. Senator Rand Paul, Republican of Kentucky, will also appear on the show to discuss the possibility of a 2016 presidential run and his latest thoughts on the Affordable Care Act.

Representative Michael McCaul, Republican of Texas and the chairman of the Homeland Security Committee, will join Representative Adam Schiff, Democrat of California and a member of the Intelligence Committee, to discuss the Iran nuclear deal on CNN’s “State of the Union.”

On CSPAN’s “Newsmakers,” another Democrat, Representative Adam Smith of Washington, will discuss foreign and defense policies, including the Defense Authorization bill, the sequester and the Iranian nuclear deal. The program airs Sunday at 10 a.m. Eastern.

Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright already weighed in on Iran, North Korea and China’s relationship with the United States on Bloomberg’s “Political Capital” Friday, which will be broadcast again over the weekend.

Ms. Albright’s former boss, former President Bill Clinton, will appear Sunday morning on Univision’s “Al Punto,” to talk about the Affordable Care Act. Last month, Mr. Clinton criticized Mr. Obama for not keeping his promise to allow Americans to keep their current health insurance under the new law. But Mr. Clinton recently defended those comments, telling CNN he meant them to be “supportive.” The show airs at 10 a.m. Eastern.