“At the end of what will be my last campaign, I want to say to Minnesota, you always treated me well, you always listened to me.”
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Walter Mondale
Walter Frederick "Fritz" Mondale was an American politician who was the 42nd vice president of the United States, serving from 1977 to 1981 under President Jimmy Carter. A member of the Democratic Party, he represented Minnesota in the United States Senate from 1964 to 1976, and was the Democratic nominee in the 1984 presidential election.
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Born 5 January 1928 · Died 19 April 2021 · Q49216
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evasiveness,... lack of candor, ... patronizing attitude exhibited toward Congress, ... refusal to respond fully and forthrightly to legitimate congressional inquiries, and ... solicitous concern for corporate sensitivities at a time of national tragedy
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2026· 3 entries
“evasiveness,... lack of candor, ... patronizing attitude exhibited toward Congress, ... refusal to respond fully and forthrightly to legitimate congressional inquiries, and ... solicitous concern for corporate sensitivities at a time of national tragedy”
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WFAE: Walter Mondale's hometown wants his childhood home added to the National Register
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2022· 3 entries
Wall Street Journal: Biden Honors Walter Mondale at Memorial
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MarketWatch: Biden eulogizes Walter Mondale as ‘a giant in American political history’
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At Northrop Auditorium on the Minneapolis campus of the University of Minnesota
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2021· 7 entries
Yahoo: Walter Mondale fought the good fight
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The Forward: Walter Mondale’s keen understanding of Jewish history
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Yahoo: How Walter Mondale transformed the vice presidency
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The New Republic: Walter Mondale Wasn’t Scared of Raising Taxes. Is Biden?
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Biden ordered all flags at government properties, office buildings and public grounds to be flown at half-staff until that Tuesday evening in honor of Mondale
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Died 2021-04-19.
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“If you are sure you understand everything that is going on, you are hopelessly confused.”
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2018· 1 entry
American Enterprise Institute: Happy 90th Birthday, Walter Mondale, and Thanks
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2017· 1 entry
Show that the National Security Agency had created a file on Mondale as part of its monitoring of prominent U
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2015· 1 entry
Mondale was awarded the Public Leadership in Neurology Award from the American Academy of Neurology for raising awareness for brain health, having lost both his wife and daughter to brain diseases
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2014· 2 entries
Mondale surpassed Richard Nixon as the vice president with the longest retirement from office at 12,146 days (33 years, 3 months and 3 days)
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Died at a hospice in Minneapolis surrounded by family members
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2012· 1 entry
Carter surpassed Herbert Hoover as the president with the longest retirement from office
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2008· 2 entries
Awarded Order of the Paulownia Flowers (2008).
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Following the final primary contests, Mondale endorsed U
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2007· 1 entry
Norwegian Minister of Foreign Affairs Jonas Gahr Støre announced that Mondale would be named Honorary Consul-General of Norway, representing the Norwegian state in Minnesota
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2006· 1 entry
Had been out of office for 9,254 days (25 years, 4 months and 3 days), surpassing the former record established by President John Adams and Vice President Thomas Jefferson, both of whom died on July 4, 1826
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2004· 1 entry
Mondale became co-chairman of the Constitution Project's bipartisan Right to Counsel Committee
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2002· 6 entries
Election lost: 2002 U.S. Senate election and beyond.
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Delivering a lecture on his service, with commentary on the transformation of the office of the vice president during the Carter administration, the Senate cloture rule for ending debate, and his view of the future of th
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Democratic Senator Paul Wellstone from Minnesota, who was running for reelection, died in a plane crash 11 days before the November 5 election
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The school renamed its building Walter F
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Mondale became the last-minute choice of the Minnesota Democratic–Farmer–Labor Party to run for Senate after Democratic U
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Campaign: 2002 U.S. Senate election and beyond.
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1998· 1 entry
Ted Mondale unsuccessfully sought the Democratic nomination for Minnesota governor, running as a fiscal moderate who had distanced himself from labor
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1996· 1 entry
Awarded Person of the Year, American Chamber of Commerce in Japan (1996).
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1993· 1 entry
Career landmark: United States Ambassador to Japan (1993–1996).
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1990· 1 entry
Established the Mondale Policy Forum at the Humphrey Institute
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1984· 4 entries
Election lost: 1984 presidential election.
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Reagan deflected the issue by quipping, "I will not make age an issue of this campaign
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Mondale won the Democratic presidential nomination and campaigned for a nuclear freeze, the Equal Rights Amendment, an increase in taxes, and a reduction of U
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Campaign: 1984 presidential election.
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1980· 3 entries
Election lost: 1980 election.
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Mondale opened the Olympic Winter Games in Lake Placid, New York; as of 2026, he was the most recent non-head of state of a republic to open any Olympic Games
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Campaign: 1980 election.
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1979· 1 entry
Twin Cities Public Television produced a documentary about his trip to Norway, titled Walter Mondale: There's a Fjord in Your Past, a play on the well-known advertising slogan "There's a Ford in Your Future"
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1977· 2 entries
Allowing the Social Security financing bill to be passed
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Career landmark: Vice President of the United States (1977–1981).
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1976· 3 entries
And Mondale was inaugurated as Vice President of the United States on January 20, 1977
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Chose Mondale as his running mate
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Jimmy Carter, the Democratic presidential nominee, chose Mondale as his vice-presidential running mate
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1975· 2 entries
Mondale served on the Committee to Study Governmental Operations with Respect to Intelligence Activities, chaired by U
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Career landmark: United States senator (1975–1976).
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1973· 1 entry
Career landmark: United States senator (1973–1975).
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1972· 1 entry
Democratic presidential candidate George McGovern from South Dakota offered Mondale an opportunity to be his vice-presidential running mate; he declined
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1971· 1 entry
Career landmark: United States senator (1971–1973).
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1969· 2 entries
Mondale began to oppose the war and participated in legislation to restrict Nixon's ability to prolong it
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Career landmark: United States senator (1969–1971).
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1967· 2 entries
Mondale served on the Aeronautical and Space Sciences Committee, then chaired by Clinton Anderson, when astronauts Gus Grissom, Ed White, and Roger B
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Career landmark: United States senator (1967–1969).
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1966· 3 entries
And reelected in 1972, resigning in 1976 as he prepared to succeed to the vice presidency in 1977
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Its final report issued on January 30, 1968, concluded (as had NASA's own accident investigation completed on April 5, 1967) that "the findings of the [Phillips] task force had no effect on the accident, did not lead to
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Defeating Republican Party candidate Robert A
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1965· 1 entry
Career landmark: United States senator (1965–1967).
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1964· 3 entries
Governor of Minnesota Karl Rolvaag appointed Mondale to the United States Senate to fill the vacancy created by Hubert Humphrey's resignation; Humphrey had stepped down after being elected Vice President of the United St
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Career landmark: United States senator (1964–1965).
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Took over the seat of vice president Hubert Humphrey, another Norwegian-American
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1961· 1 entry
Of North American as the prime Apollo spacecraft contractor, which Webb became forced to defend)
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1960· 3 entries
By Governor Orville Freeman and was elected to a full term as attorney general in 1962 with 60% of the vote
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Freeman appointed Mondale Minnesota Attorney General following the resignation of Miles Lord
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Career landmark: Minnesota Attorney General (1960–1964).
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1956· 1 entry
Studied at University of Minnesota Law School, Bachelor of Laws (1956).
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1955· 1 entry
Mondale married Joan Adams, whom he met on a blind date
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1952· 1 entry
Studied at Defense Information School (1951–1952).
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1951· 1 entry
Studied at University of Minnesota College of Liberal Arts, Bachelor of Arts (1951).
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1928· 2 entries
In Ceylon, Minnesota, to Theodore Sigvaard Mondale, a Methodist minister, and his second wife Claribel Hope (née Cowan), a part-time music teacher
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Born 1928-01-05.
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1856· 1 entry
Eventually settling in the southern part of Minnesota in 1864
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