Tuesday, 20 Apr 2021 01:59 PM MYT
Former Vice President Walter Mondale speaks at an event held in his honour at The George Washington University in Washington October 20, 2015. — Reuters pic
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ST. PAUL, April 20 — Walter Mondale, a leading liberal Democratic voice of the late 20th century who was US vice president under Jimmy Carter and lost in a landslide to Ronald Reagan in the 1984 presidential election, died yesterday at age 93, his family said.
“Well my time has come. I am eager to rejoin Joan and Eleanor,” Mondale said in a statement to his staff and released to the public after his death, referring to his late wife Joan, who died in 2014, and daughter Eleanor, who died in 2011 at age 51. “Before I go I wanted to let you know how much you mean to me.”