Sad news:

[applegrove]

Link to tweet

[Celerity]

1. RIP

[musette_sf]

2. Saw him speak at TSU in the 1984 campaign

RIP Fritz

[blueinredohio]

16. Me too! Voted for them. I think I still have the metal button with the name on it.

[ShazzieB]

21. I voted for them, too!

I don't have any artifacts from the campaign, but I remember how electrifying it was when he chose Ferraro as his running mate.

Tbh, I never would have believed it would be another 36 years before we actually got a woman veep elected, but my memories of 1984 made the Biden Harris victory all the more meaningful to me!

[orleans]

28. wow (about keeping those yard signs)

thought you'd like to see the tweet that has a note he wrote

Link to tweet

“WELL, MY TIME HAS COME.” Here’s the email Walter Mondale sent 300+ staffers and associates over the weekend. He noted how he looked forward to seeing his late wife, Joan, and late daughter, Eleanor. “Never has a public servant had a better group of people working at their side!”

(more included in his email--see photo)

[Ocelot II]

4. Damn! I always liked him.

[dflprincess]

10. The local media has been slow to report this

I would have expected it to be a bigger deal here. The Strib finally put something up about 2 minutes ago.

I am sorry to see him go.

[Ocelot II]

11. I guess there's too much other crap going on around here right now.

[dflprincess]

13. That's certainly true. nt

[hlthe2b]

5. Awww. RIP, Walter...

Seeing him there with Jimmy Carter is very touching.

[Arkansas Granny]

8. ...

[MustLoveBeagles]

9. I was too young to to vote for him but I always liked him

He'll be missed.

[Leith]

12. Another good man gone

[Stinky The Clown]

14. The finality of death comes home each time we get this kind of news.

Walter Mondale will be missed. But the fact of the matter is, he, like every luminary before him who lived to a ripe old age, was largely off the world stage and of only nostalgic consequence.

The finality of it makes it hurt. We truly feel it. We will miss him.

[NJCher]

20. not to mention

that 93 is a damn good run.

Many don't get that opportunity.

[BobTheSubgenius]

36. That was and is my take on it.

He was a good man, and he had a damned good run.

[panader0]

15. He got my vote. Vaya con dios.

[Raine]

17. The saddest kind of news 🕯️

R-I-P ... Vice President Mondale

[Fla Dem]

18. One of the very good ones. RIP Vice President Mondale.

[bucolic_frolic]

19. He was a good man

At least he knows 45 was ousted.

[speak easy]

22. No Dem could have won in 1984.

That is the most positive thing I can say.

[sinkingfeeling]

23. R.I.P.

[Tommymac]

24. Godspeed Walter

[Quemado]

25. I saw him in person at a campaign rally

in 1976 in Omaha.

RIP

[MN2theMax]

26. NT

[pazzyanne]

27. My first presidential vote went to Fritz Mondale and Jimmy Carter.

They were two of the most ethical Presidential teams in American history.

Rest in peace, Fritz.

[wendyb-NC]

29. R.I.P.

[gopiscrap]

30. I saw him a Washington State University

when I was in college. I always liked him. Remember working hard on his campaign and was really bummed when he lost to raygun

[Crunchy Frog]

31. First Presidential candidate I ever voted for.

RIP.

[KY_EnviroGuy]

32. RIP. We're grateful for your service to America, Vice President Mondale...

and peace be upon your family in these times.

I always loved his and President Carter's calm, reassuring voices when addressing the nation or during interviews. Proud to have voted for them.


KY...... .......

[UTUSN]

33. One of my several Dem heartbreaks for our having missed out on him in the big office.

[Rhiannon12866]

35. "We told the truth. We obeyed the law. We kept the peace." - VP Fritz Mondale