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Later, the delegates gave more joyous emotions full rein, happily bouncing two beach balls high in the colorful hall while awaiting the nominees. Fritz Mondale, normally a reserved, if witty, man, shook off the nervousness apparent at a morning press conference in which Carter had revealed his choice, and delivered a punchy, shouting speech...
...When Fritz Mondale made the pilgrimage to Plains-to what the Chicago Daily News' Peter Lisagor referred to as "the Court of St. James"-Carter found himself immensely and unexpectedly impressed. Mondale, known as one of the most reflective and studious men in the Senate, had thoroughly backgrounded himself on Carter. He made a point of reading Carter's autobiography Why Not the Best?, which he kiddingly referred to last week as "the best book ever written." Although Mondale is one of the most liberal men in the Senate, Carter found him undogmatic, practical and ideologically as well...
When Mondale was re-elected to his second full term in the Senate in 1972, Hubert Humphrey said: "We are seeing the beginning of a truly great national career that can take Fritz Mondale to the office that I long sought." After Mondale dropped out of the race in November 1974, he returned to Capitol Hill. But he had not really abandoned his interest in gaining higher office. He was impressed by Carter -whom he hardly knew...
After a courtship conducted mainly by mail, the two were married in 1925 and in time had three sons. Clarence Mondale, 50, Fritz's older brother, is now a professor of American history at George Washington University in Washington, D.C. Morton Mondale, 41, is an education official in Aberdeen, S.D. While Fritz was growing up in a succession of hard-hit towns, the family had enough money-but only barely. "We lived in houses most people wouldn't consider habitable," recalls Morton, "but I never considered myself poor...
...would tell us, 'You only get spanked for lying or dishonesty,' " the Senator recalls. His father discouraged his sons from using tobacco by forcing them to smoke two cigars-enough to make them wretchedly sick. Alcohol was also banned in the Mondale household. Fritz Mondale still only smokes an occasional cigar, and two Scotches amount to a bender...