Remembering my friend Al Eisele
By Chuck Hunt - Editor | Jul 11, 2021
Someone I considered a good friend (despite having spent very little time together in person) died last week.
Blue Earth native son, Albert “Al” Eisele, passed away on Tuesday, June 29, just one day after his 85th birthday. He died of congestive heart failure at an assisted-living facility in Falls Church, Virginia.
Who is Al Eisele, you may ask.
Eisele was a veteran newspaper editor and a member of the Washington press corps for many years. He co-founded The Hill, a newspaper dedicated to coverage of Congress, the White House, politics, and all things about life in the nation’s capital.
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When Walter “Fritz” Mondale returned to Minnesota in 1987 to practice law, several people at the firm he joined applied for the job as his secretary. The one who was selected, Lynda Pedersen, applied because of who Mondale had been. She stayed for the next 33 years, including three in Japan when Fritz was our ambassador. She left her husband at home running their family marina because Fritz and his wife Joan had asked her to come with them.
Lynda stayed for more than three decades not because of who he’d been, but because of who Mondale was.
She found what all of us near him found: a guy who was decent, smart, caring, funny, unassuming even in the glory of high office. She told me, “He always treated me with respect and made me feel like an important part of our team.