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...Fritz? At one or more points in their vice-presidential careers, the question has been asked about nearly all of them...
...they were peppered with questions about Mondale, Jimmy Carter and his aides insisted that Fritz was where he has always been-at the President's right hand. Carter even telephoned the Washington bureau chiefs of both the New York Times and the Los Angeles Times to refute any speculation that Mondale had been downgraded from his influential role as what Carter termed "the deputy President." At his press conference last week, Carter said he met Mondale more often in the course of a day than all of his aides combined. Indeed, White House logs showed that Mondale had spent...
...Califano, the workaholic Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare, actually went to Cape Cod for a rest. Vice President Fritz Mondale went fishing in Canada. Jody Powell stayed home a couple of days...
...with the President once a week. "Every time Jimmy walked in, I had a question for him. I always tried to look for a good time to do it -but every time it was not a good time. So he said, 'Why don't you do like Fritz does? He and I have lunch every Monday, and he brings in all the questions he wants to discuss.'" So every Wednesday the First Lady has a business lunch, squeezed in among Cabinet officers and visiting dignitaries on the official schedule. Rosalynn goes well prepared to those lunches...
...choosing labels," mused Vice President Fritz Mondale the other day. Even so, he claimed, elements of the Carter contribution for the first year were now coming clear. He made the list sound impressive...