President Joe Biden has saluted his “friend of five decades” Walter Mondale, traveling 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
President Joe Biden speaks at the memorial service for former Vice President Walter Mondale, Sunday, May 1, 2022, at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis. MINNEAPOLIS — — President Joe Biden saluted his “friend of five decades" Walter Mondale on Sunday, traveling 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.at age 93.
Democratic Sen. Tina Smith called Mondale a “bona fide political celebrity” who still dedicated time to races large and small back in their home state. Minnesota civil rights icon Josie Johnson spoke of what a good listener Mondale was and how he championed inclusiveness. Democratic Gov. Tim Walz said Minnesota may be better known as Mondale's home state than its moniker “The Land of 10,000 Lakes,” and praised Mondale's intellect, humility, humor and optimism.
Its back cover showed Mondale’s face next to the slogan, “We told the truth. We obeyed the law. We kept the peace,” which Klobuchar described as being memorialized after the then-vice president said them at the end of the Carter administration.
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