Walter F. Mondale, Carter's vice president who lost White House bid, dies at 93
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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You would have been one hundred times the President Ronald Reagan was...
I wish there was more like him ... R-I-P Fritz
At end of the debate, he came in and made an impassioned speech to his supporters. I NEVER heard a man speak with so much energy and passion for the things we believe in! It really drove me to work my ass off for him. Our country lost so much when the electorate chose that dunderhead Reagan over Fritz Mondale. 
Gideon's Trumpet -- Anthony Lewis, NYT editorial columnist, wrote a book about the Florida man whose struggle to get competent legal representation in his criminal case went to the US Supreme Court as Gideon v. Wainwright. In the process of developing its side of the case, Florida's AG wrote to all states' AGs asking them to join with Florida in submitting briefs to the Court defending Florida's denial of legal assistance to Gideon. One of those AGs, from Minnesota, refused to join with Florida in this, and instead invited the states to join in submitting briefs supporting Gideon's appeal. That Minnesota AG was Walter F. Mondale. Most of the states in the country joined Minnesota's amicus brief, and Gideon, aided by this and future Associate Justice Abe Fortas as his SCOTUS lawyer, won his case and secured the constitutional right of state criminal defendants to be represented by counsel in all criminal cases. When you hear the cop tell you you have the right to an attorney, and one will be appointed for you if you cannot afford it, you have Walter Mondale partly to thank for it.
We have truly lost a great champion for justice and equality.
I saw him speak at some local DFL functions and met him once at an International Festival at the Landmark Center. Good man, what a loss. 
