President Joe Biden on Sunday honored former Vice President Walter Frederick “Fritz” Mondale as one of America’s “great giants” during a deeply personal memorial service address in Minneapolis.
Washington President Joe Biden on Sunday honored former Vice President Walter Frederick"Fritz" Mondale as one of America's"great giants" during a deeply personal memorial service address in Minneapolis.
Mondale, who served as vice president under Democratic President Jimmy Carter, died at 93 in April of last year."There are two ways of spreading light -- to be a candle or the mirror that reflects it. Fritz was both the candle and the mirror in my view," Biden said during the memorial service at the University of Minnesota. Throughout his remarks, the President recalled his decades-long friendship with Mondale as he urged the nation to follow the late Minnesotan's example.
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