Joe Biden eulogizes former VP Mondale: ‘God bless you, my dear friend’

President Biden memorialized his "expensive good friend" former Vice President Walter Mondale throughout his funeral on Might 1, 2022.
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President Biden memorialized his “expensive good friend” former Vice President Walter Mondale as “one of many nice giants in American historical past” throughout a service for the late pol in Minnesota on Sunday.

“He was beloved by the American folks as a result of he mirrored the goodness of the American folks,” Biden mentioned of Mondale, who Ronald Reagan trounced within the 1984 presidential election.

Biden remembered Mondale, who died April 21, as a detailed good friend and supporter “not on a political degree, however on a private degree.”

“He was one of many best males you’ve ever identified and most first rate folks I ever handled and one of many hardest, smartest males I’ve ever labored with,” the president mentioned. “God bless you, my expensive good friend.”

President Joe Biden speaks on the memorial service for former Vice President Walter Mondale on Might 1, 2022.

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President Joe Biden disembarks from Air Pressure One at Minneapolis-St. Paul Worldwide Airport.

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President Biden remembered Mondale, who died April 21, 2022, as a detailed good friend and supporter.

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President Biden mentioned that Mondale was beloved as a result of he mirrored the goodness of the American folks.

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Biden additionally recalled how Mondale, Jimmy Carter’s vp from 1977 to 1981, impressed his personal flip as vp below Barack Obama.

“Fritz recounted that his biggest energy wasn’t his experience in a specific coverage space. It was the real private relationship he constructed with President Jimmy Carter,” Biden mentioned of Mondale.

“Fritz embraced all people with the assumption that everybody’s entitled to be handled with dignity.”