Mother: Claribel (Cowan) Mondale
Marriage: Joan (Adams) Mondale (December 27, 1955-February 3, 2014, her death)
Children: William, February 27, 1962; Eleanor, (January 19, 1960-September 17, 2011); Theodore “Teddy,” October 12, 1957
Education: University of Minnesota, B.A., 1951; University of Minnesota, L.L.B, 1956
Military Service: US Army, 1951-1953, Corporal
Religion: Presbyterian
Nicknamed “Fritz.”
Mondale announced during his acceptance speech at the 1984 Democratic nominating convention that he would raise taxes in order to reduce the budget deficit. “Let’s tell the truth…Mr. Reagan will raise taxes, and so will I. He won’t tell you, I just did.”
Colorado Sen. Gary Hart defeated Mondale in the New Hampshire primary in 1984 and had initial success positioning himself as the candidate of new ideas, until Mondale remarked, “When I hear your new ideas, I’m reminded of the [Wendy’s] ad, ‘Where’s the beef? ”
Walter Mondale Fast Facts
Here’s a look at the life of Walter Mondale, 42nd vice president of the United States.
Personal
Death date: April 19, 2021
Birth place: Ceylon, Minnesota
Mother: Claribel (Cowan) Mondale
Marriage: Joan (Adams) Mondale (December 27, 1955-February 3, 2014, her death)
Children: William, February 27, 1962; Eleanor, (January 19, 1960-September 17, 2011); Theodore “Teddy,” October 12, 1957
Education: University of Minnesota, B.A., 1951; University of Minnesota, L.L.B, 1956
Military Service: US Army, 1951-1953, Corporal
Religion: Presbyterian
Nicknamed “Fritz.”
Mondale announced during his acceptance speech at the 1984 Democratic nominating convention that he would raise taxes in order to reduce the budget deficit. “Let’s tell the truth…Mr. Reagan will raise taxes, and so will I. He won’t tell you, I just did.”
APRIL 19: Walter Mondale, a leading liberal Democratic voice of the late 20th century who was U.S. vice president under Jimmy Carter and lost in a his.
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Walter Mondale, a leading liberal Democratic voice of the late 20th century who was U.S. vice president under Jimmy Carter and lost in a historic landslide to Ronald Reagan in the 1984 presidential election, died on Monday at age 93, according to media reports.
Mondale, the first major U.S. party presidential nominee to pick a woman running mate, died in Minneapolis, according to a family representative quoted by Axios.
Widely known as “Fritz,” Mondale believed in an activist government and worked for civil rights, school integration, consumer protection and farm and labor interests as a U.S. senator and vice president during Carter’s troubled one-term presidency from 1977 to 1981. He also served as U.S. ambassador to Japan from 1993 to 1996 under Bill Clinton.