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...remarkable political ascent (just three years ago, when he was Governor of Georgia, panelists had failed to recognize him on What's My Line?). It also served to position him, more sharply than he had been perceived before, as a liberal. He did so by choosing Minnesota Senator Walter ("Fritz") Mondale as his running mate and by using the themes he struck in his acceptance speech...
...babbling Baptist and a jumping Jesuit isn't that much." One reluctant Manhattan delegate, Harold Jacob, criticized Carter for not making clear where he stands on Israel and other issues (like emigration from the Soviet Union) of concern to Jews, but he softened after the nomination of Fritz Mondale; he "has a good record on Israel, and Jewish people respect...
...convention's last day, there were some tears in the Garden during the poignant, if a bit bizarre vice-presidential nomination of Fritz Efaw, 29, who had avoided the Viet Nam draft by living in exile in London. Seconded by Ron Kovic, a paraplegic casualty of the war ("I am the living dead"), Efaw made a plea for a broad amnesty for all Viet Nam service evaders before withdrawing his name...
...sitting through speeches by prominent pols (including then Rep. Gerald R. Ford (R.-Mich.)) with a day following our senators around the Hill. Since Sen. Hubert H. Humphrey (D.-Minn.) was away campaigning for the presidency, both Minnesota delegates were pawned off on the senior "Gopher State" senator, "Fritz" Mondale, who took on the tour-guide task with an amiability that eased our initial disappointment at the legendary HHH's absence...
...next time I saw Mondale he was standing in front of a television camera at the 1972 National Democratic Convention. McGovern had locked up the nomination, and Humphrey had his arm around "Fritz" recommending him as a future leader of national stature to Walter Cronkite and the nation. As Humphrey spoke, Mondale stood there quietly, somber and earnest...