President Jimmy Carter was the first President to formally give his Vice President, Walter Mondale, an office in the West Wing of the White House.

Mondale was born in Ceylon, Minnesota, and graduated from the University of Minnesota in 1951.

Working as a lawyer in Minneapolis, Mondale was elected to the position of attorney general in 1960.

In the election, Mondale was defeated in a landslide by President Reagan, gaining electoral votes from only his home state of Minnesota and the District of Columbia.

After the election, Mondale joined the Minnesota-based law firm of Dorsey & Whitney and the National Democratic Institute for International Affairs ( 1986 – 93 ), and was credited with successes in Poland and Hungary.

Walter Frederick Mondale was born in Ceylon, Minnesota, the son of Claribel Hope ( née Cowan ), a part-time music teacher, and Theodore Sigvaard Mondale, a Methodist minister.

His half-brother Lester Mondale was a Unitarian minister.

Hollings ' wit and experience, as well as his call for a budget freeze, won him some positive attention, but his relatively conservative record alienated liberal Democrats, and he was never really noticed in a field dominated by Walter Mondale, John Glenn and Gary Hart.

He notably referred to Mondale as a " lapdog " and to former Astronaut Glenn as " Sky King " who was " confused in his capsule.

Mondale defeated Glenn for the nomination however, and he was left with $ 3 million in campaign debt for over 20 years before he was granted a reprieve by the Federal Election Commission.

In 1972, Cottle County was the only one in Texas north of Maverick County ( Eagle Pass ) to have been won by George McGovern and Walter Mondale won a majority of the county's votes in 1984.

The county has been consistently Democrat in Presidential voting since 1976 and was among the counties to be carried by Walter Mondale in 1984.

Elmore was the boyhood home of former U. S. Vice President and Democratic presidential candidate Walter F. Mondale.

* Walter Mondale, former Vice President of the United States, United States Senator, Minnesota Attorney General, and Presidential nominee was born in Ceylon.

In the 1940s, Theodore S. Mondale, the father of future Vice President of the United States Walter Mondale, was the pastor at First Methodist Church of St. James.

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Or, in 1984, when male Walter Mondale was paired with female Geraldine Ferraro.

Thousands of signatures were obtained from all over the nation, and the final approval was given by Citizens Stamp Committee member Joan Mondale, wife of former Vice President Walter Mondale.

A single vice-presidential debate was also held that year between Democratic Senator Walter Mondale and Republican Senator Bob Dole.

In the run up to the 1984 Democratic National Convention, there was considerable media and public speculation that Democratic presidential nominee Walter Mondale might pick Feinstein as his running mate.

Since then, Mondale has returned to working at the law firm of Dorsey & Whitney and remains active in the Democratic Party.

However, Glenn's keynote address at the Democratic National Convention failed to impress the delegates and the nomination went to veteran politician Walter Mondale.

Dayton took the oath of office to become Governor of Minnesota on January 3, 2011 ; former Vice President and Senator Walter Mondale served as Master of Ceremony at the inauguration.

During primaries in the spring of 1984, when the commercial was at its height of popularity, Democratic candidate and former Vice President Walter Mondale used the phrase to sum up his arguments that program policies championed by his rival, Senator Gary Hart, were insubstantial, beginning with a March 11, 1984 televised debate prior to the New York and Pennsylvania primaries.

In 1998, Mondale was named in the Starr Report as having met with President Clinton at the White House on December 6, 1997, while Monica Lewinsky, with whom Clinton had been having an affair, was kept waiting at the White House for 40 minutes.

In 1999, Mondale sold her house in Los Angeles to move to New York to be with her boyfriend at the time, New York plastic and reconstructive surgeon Joe DeBellis.

Mondale interviewed Fred Thompson at the 2007 Minnesota State Fair.

Mondale began her journalism career while still in Los Angeles, taking a job at KABC-TV in 1985.

In April 1991, Mondale returned to Chicago's airwaves as a morning sidekick at WKQX-FM, working alongside morning host Robert Murphy.

In 2006, after battling brain cancer for the first time, Mondale signed on as a host at WCCO-AM.

Still in his 20s in 1983 Trippi joined the campaign staff of Vice President Walter Mondale — first as the state director of Maine where he was credited with engineering a come-from-behind victory at the 1983 state convention for Mondale — earning him a promotion to state director of Iowa's first in the nation caucuses.

In 1978 he served on the Staff of Vice President Walter Mondale, and managed the Carter-Mondale campaign in the Illinois primary, at the age of 28.

Mondale ( who was 56 at the time ) said years later in an interview that he knew at that moment he had lost the election.

VR-48, homeported at NAF Washington DC ( Andrews AFB ), carried Vice President Walter Mondale to and from Lake Placid, New York to watch the 1980 Winter Olympics gold medal hockey game in one of its aircraft.

In July 1979, Walter Mondale described the hope represented by the Evian conference :" At stake at Evian were both human lives – and the decency and self-respect of the civilized world.

Image: UMNFightingMondales. jpg | Walter Mondale at the introduction of the " Fighting Mondales ".

Its inauguration in July, 1978 was heralded with a visit by Vice President Walter Mondale praising its use of domestic coal reserves at a time when many power stations were still using imported oil.

Eleanor Mondale of WCCO ( AM ) | WCCO radio interviewing Fred Thompson at the Minnesota State Fair on 2007-08-27.

Tension was heightened at the time because Mondale stepped in as a candidate at the last minute after the death of Paul Wellstone, who had been running for re-election.

Some of the notable alumni and faculty of Macalester college include architect Cass Gilbert, political figures Kofi Annan ' 61 and Walter Mondale ' 50, businessman and philanthropist DeWitt Wallace ' 11, writers Tim O ' Brien ' 68, Rebecca Otto ' 85, Walter Kirn ( transferred to Princeton University after his first year ) and Christina French Houghton ' 06, a co-founder of Guy French.

For her senior year of high school, Mondale attended St. Timothy's, a boarding school outside of Baltimore.

After graduating from St. Lawrence University, Mondale quickly earned a reputation in the media for being a " wild-child ", although she claims many of the rumors were unfounded.

On November 4, 2002, the theater was the site of a memorable election-eve debate between United States Senate candidates Norm Coleman ( previously mayor of St. Paul ) and Walter Mondale ( formerly a U. S. Vice President ) and moderated by Gary Eichten of MPR and Paul Magers of local television station KARE.