{"id":433603,"date":"2021-04-20T09:37:24","date_gmt":"2021-04-20T13:37:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=433603"},"modified":"2021-04-20T09:37:42","modified_gmt":"2021-04-20T13:37:42","slug":"biden-reflects-on-his-years-of-friendship-with-the-late-walter-mondale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-reflects-on-his-years-of-friendship-with-the-late-walter-mondale\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden Reflects On His \u2018Years Of Friendship\u2019 With The Late Walter Mondale"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fbiden-reflects-on-his-years-of-friendship-with-the-late-walter-mondale%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=433603&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>President Joe Biden released a lengthy statement late Friday night honoring the late former Vice President Walter Mondale.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/04\/19\/biden-and-top-white-house-advisers-plan-bipartisan-infrastructure-outreach-blitz\/\">Biden<\/a> said that he and first lady Jill Biden spoke to \u201cFritz and his family over the weekend, to reflect on the years of friendship\u201d they shared and how much they \u201clearned from and leaned on each other.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThrough his work as a Senator, he showed me what was possible. He may have been modest and unassuming in manner, but he was unwavering in his pursuit of progress; instrumental in passing laws like the Fair Housing Act to prevent racial discrimination in housing, Title IX to provide more opportunities for women, and laws to protect our environment,\u201d he wrote. \u201cThere have been few senators, before or since, who commanded such universal respect.\u201d <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2020\/10\/02\/trump-biden-presidential-debate-soundbite-military-hunter-beau-addiction\/\">(RELATED: Mondale, Reagan Shared An All Time Presidential Debate Moment)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_7174038\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" readability=\"38\">\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-7174038\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">WASHINGTON, DC \u2013 OCTOBER 20: US Vice President Joe Biden (R) apeaks about former Vice President Walter Mondale (L) during an event to honor the former VP at George Washington University October 20, 2015 in Washington, DC. Biden remains at the center of rumors regarding a potential campaign for the U.S. presidency. (Photo by Mark Wilson\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cFritz was my first call and trusted guide. He not only took my call, he wrote me a memo,\u201d Biden said, referencing when former President Barack Obama tapped him to serve as his running mate. \u201cIt was Walter Mondale who defined the vice presidency as a full partnership, and helped provide a model for my service.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mondale, Biden noted, \u201cwas the first presidential nominee of either party to select a woman as his running mate, and I know how pleased he was to be able to see Kamala Harris become Vice President.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/04\/19\/biden-and-top-white-house-advisers-plan-bipartisan-infrastructure-outreach-blitz\/\">Biden<\/a> closed by stating that Mondale spread the values outlined in his Democratic vice presidential nomination speech: \u201cTo play by the rules; to tell the truth; to obey the law; to care for others; to love our country; to cherish our faith.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/04\/19\/vice-president-walter-mondale-dies-at-93\/\">Mondale\u2019s office<\/a> announced his passing Monday at the age of 93. In addition to serving as former President Jimmy Carter\u2019s vice president, he also challenged then-President Ronald Reagan as the Democratic presidential nominee in the 1984 general election.<\/p>\n<p>He was the first vice president in modern history to have a permanent office in the West Wing of the White House and has been credited by political historians with transforming the traditionally ceremonial role of vice president \u201cinto a robust and constructive institution.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Joe Biden released a lengthy statement late Friday night honoring the late former Vice President Walter Mondale.Biden said that he and first lady Jill Biden spoke to \u201cFritz and &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2276184,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-433603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433603","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=433603"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433603\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2276184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=433603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=433603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=433603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}