Former U.S. vice-president Walter Mondale died in April 2021 at age 93
U.S. President Joe Biden saluted his “friend of five decades” Walter Mondale on Sunday, travelling to the University of Minnesota to remember the former vice-president and Democratic Party elder whose memorial service was delayed for a year due to the pandemic.
Biden emphasized Mondale’s empathy, recalling his own promise during the 2020 presidential campaign to unite the country. That’s something the president has strayed from a bit in recent weeks, as he seeks to draw a starker contrast between his administration and congressional Republicans who have opposed it on nearly every major issue.Biden added of Mondale: “He united people sharing the light, the same hopes – even when we disagreed, he thought that was important.
“That was my first job in Washington. And, thanks to Walter Mondale, this was my second,” Klobuchar said of being a senator, noting that Mondale encouraged her to run and taught “the pundits in Washington how to say my name.” A booklet given to attendees for the “afternoon of remembrance and reflection” quoted from Mondale’s 2010 book, “The Good Fight”: “I believe that the values of the American people – our fundamental decency, our sense of justice and fairness, our love of freedom – are the country’s greatest assets, and that steering by their lodestar is the only true course forward.”
Mondale followed a trail blazed by his political mentor, Hubert H. Humphrey, serving as Minnesota attorney general before replacing Humphrey in the Senate. He was Carter’s vice-president from 1977 to 1981.
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