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A personal note on Walter Mondale
Former Vice President Walter Mondale died on Monday at the age of 93. His death brought back a flood of memories to me. I want to offer these personal notes on the occasion of his death.
I talked my way into an internship in then Minnesota Senator Mondale’s Washington office in the summer of 1969, just after I graduated from high school in St. Paul. I had gone to hear Mondale speak at an event that spring and tracked him down outside the building afterwards. I told Mondale that Syd Berde, his former chief deputy when he served as Minnesota Attorney General, had called him and recommended me to him. That’s what I had been given to understand, although I’m not sure it was accurate. (Mr. Berde was the father of my classmate Chuck Berde, by far the smartest student in our class. Chuck told me that his father had called Mondale on my behalf, as I had requested.)
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MINNEAPOLIS, April 19, 2021 /PRNewswire/ It is with profound sadness that we share news that our beloved dad passed away today in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
As proud as we were of him leading the presidential ticket for Democrats in 1984, we know that our father s public policy legacy is so much more than that. The Fair Housing Act of 1968 was one of his proudest – and hardest fought – achievements. In the course of his years in the U.S. Senate, he understood the sense of reckoning that this country then faced, and was committed to that work alongside Hubert Humphrey, Josie Johnson, Roy Wilkins and so many others. We are grateful that he had the opportunity to see the emergence of another generation of civil rights reckoning in the past months.
Family says former Vice President Walter Mondale has died at 93
Mondale made his biggest mark as the vice president who converted that office from a historical joke Vice President John Nance Gardner famously described it as a job that wasn’t “worth a pitcher of warm spit” to one of the vital centers in American government.
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Former Vice President Walter Mondale listens to speakers during a dedication ceremony in October 2019 at the William O Brien State Park in Marine on Saint Croix, Minn. Mondale s family announced Monday, April 19, 2021, that the former vice president died at age 93. Christine T. Nguyen | MPR News