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JHB

(37,128 posts)
Mon Apr 19, 2021, 09:05 PM Apr 2021

Walter F. Mondale, Carter's vice president who lost White House bid, dies at 93

Cross-posted from LBN:

Source: Washington Post

By Bart Barnes
April 19, 2021 at 8:54 p.m. EDT

Walter F. Mondale, the former Democratic senator and vice president whose unusually candid and forward-looking bid for the pinnacle of American politics was blocked by President Ronald Reagan’s landslide reelection victory in 1984, died April 19 at his home in Minneapolis. He was 93.

Family friend and spokeswoman Kathy Tunheim announced the death but did not provide a specific cause.

Mr. Mondale was a major player on the national political stage for two decades, beginning in 1964, when he was appointed to the Senate seat from Minnesota that his political mentor, Hubert H. Humphrey, had given up to become President Lyndon B. Johnson’s vice president.

On Capitol Hill, Mr. Mondale rose in the party hierarchy while establishing a reputation as a diligent legislator and a champion of such liberal causes as open housing and anti-poverty programs. His star ascended still further in 1976 when Jimmy Carter, the former Georgia governor and Democratic nominee for president, chose him as his running mate.

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Walter F. Mondale, Carter's vice president who lost White House bid, dies at 93 (Original Post) JHB Apr 2021 OP
RIP MustLoveBeagles Apr 2021 #1
..... bdamomma Apr 2021 #2
RIP, VP Mondale. greatauntoftriplets Apr 2021 #3
I voted for him lunatica Apr 2021 #4
You was always better than your adversities. OAITW r.2.0 Apr 2021 #5
RIP. a kennedy Apr 2021 #6
Wonderful man MaryMagdaline Apr 2021 #7
He outlived the Hell out of Ronald Reagan. Aristus Apr 2021 #8
By far the superior candidate in 1984. Dawson Leery Apr 2021 #9
That was great! ShazzieB Apr 2021 #18
Good man. roamer65 Apr 2021 #10
Thank you, Sir, for all you did for our country MerryHolidays Apr 2021 #11
Sens. Humphrey, Mondale, Wellstone, Franken, and Klobuchar Yavin4 Apr 2021 #12
Amy Klobuchar on Rachel now n/t malaise Apr 2021 #15
Yes, we do!!! nt pazzyanne Apr 2021 #27
... ancianita Apr 2021 #13
Rachel discussing now malaise Apr 2021 #14
My first vote for President. RIP, and best wishes to the Mondale family. bullwinkle428 Apr 2021 #16
Mine, too! pazzyanne Apr 2021 #28
Oh, man. I hate to hear this. Music Man Apr 2021 #17
Good ol' Fritz. BigmanPigman Apr 2021 #19
"Fritz"! politruk Apr 2021 #20
Rest in Power n/t wellst0nev0ter Apr 2021 #21
RIP moondust Apr 2021 #22
Rest peacefully mzmolly Apr 2021 #23
Sad news Withywindle Apr 2021 #24
RIP Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Apr 2021 #25
Godspeed Walter. Tommymac Apr 2021 #26
Rest in Power gopiscrap Apr 2021 #29
He was and will always be in my mind a "Good Guy" and he was my former US senator turbinetree Apr 2021 #30
One of my several Dem heartbreaks for our having missed out on him in the big office. UTUSN Apr 2021 #31
RIP Vice President Mondale. Thank you for your service. FlyingPiggy Apr 2021 #32
A very fine man who would have been a great President. His Presidential election loss was... NNadir Apr 2021 #33
After his landslide loss, he was proven right Dawson Leery Apr 2021 #34

Aristus

(66,075 posts)
8. He outlived the Hell out of Ronald Reagan.
Mon Apr 19, 2021, 09:22 PM
Apr 2021

And lived to see America's first female Vice President.

Yavin4

(35,354 posts)
12. Sens. Humphrey, Mondale, Wellstone, Franken, and Klobuchar
Mon Apr 19, 2021, 09:31 PM
Apr 2021

Minnesota sends us their best.

RIP VP Mondale.

Music Man

(1,181 posts)
17. Oh, man. I hate to hear this.
Mon Apr 19, 2021, 09:46 PM
Apr 2021

One of our country's treasures.

Tough week for the state of Minnesota.

BigmanPigman

(51,430 posts)
19. Good ol' Fritz.
Mon Apr 19, 2021, 09:54 PM
Apr 2021

I voted for him in my first and second elections ('80 as VP and '84 as POTUS). I think that is when I really began hating the GOP/Reagun.

 

politruk

(88 posts)
20. "Fritz"!
Mon Apr 19, 2021, 09:58 PM
Apr 2021

Reminds me of an editorial cartoon from 1976 or 1977: Jimmy Carter is in his transition office -- we see signs that say "Fritz and Grits" and "Lance and Vance" -- Carter is on the phone saying, "A cabinet post? Not a chance, Glockenspiel!"

moondust

(19,917 posts)
22. RIP
Mon Apr 19, 2021, 10:05 PM
Apr 2021

When Reagan won 49 states in 1984 after 4 years of anti-labor unbridled greed, I was pretty sure lots of working Americans were in for a rough road ahead. Then globalization and offshoring jobs to cheap labor markets (greed!) took off and it got worse. Partly as a result of that travesty I made some life-changing decisions that I have never regretted including looking into emigrating (which wasn't so easy before the Internet).

I met VP Mondale's brother at a southern conference ~1980 and we had a brief chat about racism. As I recall, he was a professor of American Studies at Georgetown at that time.

Good folks.

Withywindle

(9,988 posts)
24. Sad news
Mon Apr 19, 2021, 10:08 PM
Apr 2021

I was too young to vote in 1984 but I was old enough to have some political awareness, and him picking Geraldine Ferraro as his running mate meant a lot to me. Reagan was just horrible, and for a decent man to lose like that...He deserved better.

All respect to you, sir.

NNadir

(33,368 posts)
33. A very fine man who would have been a great President. His Presidential election loss was...
Tue Apr 20, 2021, 06:13 AM
Apr 2021

...I think, the beginning of a downhill slide for the United States from which we are not even close to recovering.

Dawson Leery

(19,348 posts)
34. After his landslide loss, he was proven right
Tue Apr 20, 2021, 02:11 PM
Apr 2021

The 1986 reform bill effectively raised taxes on the affluent. Bush I did the same in 1990 and Bill Clinton in 1993.

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