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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.
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