“We all admire him quite a bit,” Paschke said, pointing to Mondale’s work on housing and equity as part of his legacy that ...

The first presidential campaign I volunteered for was Walter Mondale’s, in the summer of 1984. I was short of voting age, but standing outside an old New England Grange hall, handing out ...

EXCLUSIVE: It was a decision that "changed what people thought was possible for women." That is how Donna Zaccaro describes the event 37 years ago when Democratic Presidential nominee Walter Mondale ...

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On a hot September afternoon in 1984, I was at the U.S. Open in Flushing Meadows, Queens sitting about four rows from the upper rung of the cavernous stadium, eagerly waiting for the women’s final ...

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It took three tries before the crowd would quiet down and she could complete her first, historic sentence. "Ladies and gentlemen of the convention . . . my name is Geraldine Ferraro." The effect was ...

Minnesota’s Walter Mondale, who died Monday night at 93, was the embodiment of a strand of full-throated liberalism that defined the Democratic Party for much of the last half of the twentieth century ...

The first presidential campaign I volunteered for was Walter Mondale’s, in the summer of 1984. I was short of voting age, but standing outside an old New England Grange hall, handing out ...

PEQUOT LAKES, Minn. — When Jean and Ron Weber of Breezy Point, Minnesota, sent me "The Mark's Cookbook," I found recipes from many famous individuals, actors, politicians and many others. I was even ...