As a Senator, Mondale -known simply as Fritz to both friends and foes- was a spokesman for racial justice and an opponent of the Vietnam War. Mondale was respected as much for his dignity in ...

President Jimmy Carter had several Minnesotans in his cabinet and Walter “Fritz” Mondale, as his vice president, would help redefine that office. Mondale, was similar in background and in his ...

July 15, 1976 - Jimmy Carter asks Mondale to be his vice presidential running mate on the Democratic ticket. January 20, 1977-January 20, 1981 - Mondale serves as vice president under President Carter ...

Walter “Fritz” Mondale to be his running mate. It was a pick Carter would credit in part to second lady Joan Mondale during a 2014 interview on MPR News about her death. “We were so impresse ...

October 16, 2008 – “Fritz: The Walter Mondale Story,” a documentary about Mondale’s life, premieres at the Minnesota History Center.

President Jimmy Carter had several Minnesotans in his cabinet and Walter “Fritz” Mondale, as his vice president, would help redefine that office. Mondale, was similar in background and in his ...

October 16, 2008 – “Fritz: The Walter Mondale Story,” a documentary about Mondale’s life, premieres at the Minnesota History Center. January 20, 2010 – Resigns from Norwegian honorary ...