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Cross-posted from LBN:
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 Reagans 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. Johnsons 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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MustLoveBeagles
(11,563 posts)RIP Senator Mondale
greatauntoftriplets
(175,694 posts)lunatica
(53,410 posts)and Geraldine Ferraro. Rest In Peace dear Walter.
OAITW r.2.0
(23,810 posts)MaryMagdaline
(6,849 posts)Great liberal
Voted for him for president and two times for VP
Aristus
(66,075 posts)And lived to see America's first female Vice President.
Dawson Leery
(19,348 posts)See him through the years:
https://www.startribune.com/walter-mondale-through-the-years/600036254/
ShazzieB
(15,952 posts)Thanks for this link--really enjoyed it.
roamer65
(36,739 posts)He will be missed.
MerryHolidays
(7,715 posts)You will be sorely missed.
RIP.
Yavin4
(35,354 posts)Minnesota sends us their best.
RIP VP Mondale.
malaise
(267,791 posts)pazzyanne
(6,518 posts)malaise
(267,791 posts)bullwinkle428
(20,626 posts)pazzyanne
(6,518 posts)It was also my Republican grandfather's first vote for Democrats!
Music Man
(1,181 posts)One of our country's treasures.
Tough week for the state of Minnesota.
BigmanPigman
(51,430 posts)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.
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!"
wellst0nev0ter
(7,509 posts)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.
mzmolly
(50,957 posts)good soul.
Withywindle
(9,988 posts)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.
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(107,063 posts)Tommymac
(7,263 posts)gopiscrap
(23,673 posts)I was a young man and remember working hard for him
turbinetree
(24,631 posts)UTUSN
(70,494 posts)FlyingPiggy
(3,373 posts)NNadir
(33,368 posts)...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)The 1986 reform bill effectively raised taxes on the affluent. Bush I did the same in 1990 and Bill Clinton in 1993.