#Mondale: Walter (the First) - Shining Example, Now Peacefully Resting | @VisitNorway @VisitSognefjord @Wikipedia @NordicVisitor
I ... I don't know what to say ... POLITICO calls him "The Last Old-School Democrat." (Maybe 'old-school' means "handling things right, even if nobody's looking.")My initial reaction (plus whatever response people think to give) is linked through 'the main word' below; but I feel it's more important to understand that word better. And I find that you understand words better when you look at the other words at the bases of the words you're thinking-of ...
The surname “Mondale” is built on the name of a valley in the center of Fjærland, Norway (where Walter opened a tunnel connecting the city to Skel) - #Mundal, built on ancient words that mean ... I dunno; the closest things I can find are Mandal (a nearby village) & the 'book village's name's resemblance to the Norwegian word for Monday.'
The valley's name might've been named the same way the village's was: |Dale- or |Valley of [whatever 'Mun-' stands for, as 'Man-' stands for the river-name Mǫrn (now Mandalselva)].
To 'ease into' learning more about the guy ...
And I guess I'll get back to 'the way I was going to include people's biographies on this blog,' the "Parameters of"-outline (noting 'the pull' the individual had on today's lexicon):
- Who he was with
- of Norwegian-, German-, Scottish- & English ancestry; his Father - Methodist minister Theodore Sigvaard Mondale, his Mother - Claribel Hope (née Cowan); his brothers - Lester, Clarence (Pete), William (Mort); Wife - Joan Adams; children Ted, Eleanor & William
- VP to President Jimmy Carter, ambassador-to-Japan (& special envoy to Indonesia) of President Bill Clinton, Minnesota's Attorney General under Governors Orville Freeman, -Elmer Andersen & -Karl Rolvaag
- What he was
- politics-student, Army-veteran, jurisdoctorate (lawyer), Senator, Vice President, Ambassador & special envoy, Distinguished University Fellow in Law & Public Affairs (establishing the Mondale Policy Forum at the Humphrey Institute)
- member of the board: the Guthrie Theater Foundation, the Mayo Foundation, the National Democratic Institute for International Affairs, the Diogenes Institute of Higher Learning, the Prince Hall Masonic Temple, the RAND Corporation, and the University of Minnesota Foundation,
... BlackRock Advantage Term Trust and other BlackRock Mutual Funds, Cargill Incorporated, CNA Financial, the Encyclopædia Britannica, First Financial Fund, and other Prudential Mutual Funds, Northwest Airlines, and United HealthCare Corporation - When
- Born: January 5, 1928; Died: April 19, 2021
- Where
- Born: Ceylon, Minnesota; Educated: Minnesota Public Schools, Macalester College, University of Minnesota; Died: Minneapolis, Minnesota
- Why and/or How I Recognize him
- Nearly-successful attempt to win the 1984 Presidency from Ronald Reagan (I didn't know about any of the other stuff until I looked it up for this Votive).
Truth-be-told, I don't really follow politics ... the main thing that got me interested in politics at all is probably the comedians' use of politicians' crazy behavior as material for their shows---until then, The President was basically just 'another grampa who came on the news to tell us how he was makin` sure everything was alright.'
When I think of 'Walter Mondale,' the image in my head is--I think--a drawing from MAD Magazine:
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