Walter Mondale, who helped to transform the role of the vice president to trusted presidential adviser during Jimmy Carter’s one-term presidency yet suffered a crushing political defeat as the Democratic nominee for president against incumbent Ronald Reagan in 1984, has died.About a month after the election, Mondale wrote a memo to Carter in which he said that the Vice President generally “has performed a role characterized by ambiguity, disappointment, even antagonism.” Mondale need only look to the experience of Humphrey, his political mentor, for his experience as Vice President during the presidency of Lyndon Johnson.
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