End of an Era: Walter Mondale, Liberal
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Posted By: SurferLad, 4/20/2021 12:08:04 PM
Former Senator and Jimmy Carter’s Vice President Walter Mondale died Monday of undisclosed causes. But the 93-year-old Minnesotan knew the end was near. He made [Snip] A small-town Midwestern native, a minister’s son and student of Hubert Humphrey, Mondale was a decent, interesting man, one of those political dinosaurs, now long extinct, who could remain friends with opponents who were not progressives like himself. Opponents, in turn, returned the favor. In those days before cable TV, senators of both parties shared a strange belief that compromise could produce half a loaf for each side. They
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