Walter Mondale

(noun)

An American Democratic Party politician who served as the 42nd Vice President of the United States (1977–1981) under President Jimmy Carter, and as a United States Senator from Minnesota (1964–1976); he was the Democratic Party's presidential candidate in the United States presidential election of 1984.

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Examples of Walter Mondale in the following topics:

  • The Election of 1988

    • In the 1984 presidential election, the Democrats had nominated Walter Mondale, a traditional New Deal-type liberal as their candidate.
    • When Mondale was defeated in a landslide, party leaders became eager to find a new approach to win the presidency.

  • The Election of 1984

    • The contest was between the incumbent President Ronald Reagan, the Republican candidate, and former Vice President Walter Mondale, the Democratic candidate.
    • Only three Democratic candidates won any state primaries: Mondale, Gary Hart, and Jesse Jackson.
    • Mondale had the largest number of party leaders supporting him, and he had raised more money than any other candidate.
    • Mondale gradually pulled away from Hart in the delegate count, and at the Democratic National Convention in San Francisco on July 16, Mondale received the overwhelming support of the un-elected super delegates from the party establishment to win the nomination.
    • Mondale ran a liberal campaign, supporting a nuclear freeze and the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA).

  • Progressivism and Religion

    • Walter Palmer.
    • Ely, Josiah Strong, Washington Gladden, and Walter Rauschenbusch.
    • One of the defining theologians for the Social Gospel movement was Walter Rauschenbusch, a Baptist pastor of a congregation located in Hell's Kitchen.

  • Crisis in Berlin

    • By the early summer of 1961, East German President Walter Ulbricht apparently had persuaded the Soviets that an immediate solution was necessary and that the only way to stop the exodus was to use force.
    • On Saturday, August 12, 1961, Walter Ulbricht signed the order to close the border and erect a wall.

  • The British Empire

    • Famous sea dogs included John Hawkins , Francis Drake, and Walter Raleigh.
    • Sir Walter Raleigh sought to establish an empire in the New World after having gained considerable favor from Queen Elizabeth I by suppressing rebellions in Ireland.

  • Markets and Missionaries

    • One of the defining theologians for the Social Gospel movement was Walter Rauschenbusch, a Baptist pastor of a congregation located in Hell’s Kitchen in New York City.

  • The Transformed South

    • Historian Walter Lynwood Fleming ideas are a typical example of the conservative interpretation of Reconstruction.

  • Settling the Southern Colonies

    • The name "Virginia" was first applied by Sir Walter Raleigh and Queen Elizabeth I in 1584, when Raleigh established a colony on the island of Roanoke off the coast of Virginia.

  • Theodore Roosevelt and Race

    • Roosevelt had also appointed numerous African Americans to federal office, such as Walter L.

  • The Gay Rights Movement

    • In 1973, Segal disrupted the CBS evening news with Walter Cronkite, an event covered in newspapers across the country and viewed by 60% of American households, many seeing or hearing about homosexuality for the first time.
    • Before the networks agreed to put a stop to censorship and bias in the news division, Segal went on to disrupt The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson and The Today Show with Barbara Walters.