Dec 30, 2024 · Walter Mondale died in 2021, but he left behind the eulogy he planned to deliver at former President Jimmy Carter’s funeral.

Gerald Ford won’t be the only person speaking beyond the grave. Carter's vice president, Walter Mondale, also had a eulogy he wrote for Carter read by his son, Ted Mondale.Walter Mondale died in ...

Dec 31, 2024 · Steven Ford and Ted Mondale plan to address the crowd assembled for Carter’s funeral at the National Cathedral on January 9, reading the eulogies that their fathers wrote, according to a report. Carter, Ford, and Mondale became close friends in their later years despite the Democrats’ success at booting Ford from the White House in 1976.

Dec 30, 2024 · In the tribute he left behind, Mr. Mondale hailed Mr. Carter especially for making human rights the centerpiece of his foreign policy, for promoting environmental measures long before the term climate change became widely known and for placing more women in high office than any of his predecessors — including an appeals court judge named Ruth ...

Jan 9, 2025 · Steve Ford, Gerald Ford's son, read his late father's eulogy for Jimmy Carter at the former president's funeral. The tribute explained how the two former rivals became friends after their presidencies. The son of Walter Mondale, Carter's vice president, also read a posthumous eulogy from his own father for Carter.

Jan 10, 2025 · Ford's son speaks: Former President Gerald Ford had also left a eulogy before he passed away in 2006. His son, Steve Ford, delivered the remarks. He described a friendship that...

Walter Mondale, who was Carter’s running mate in 1976 and again in 1980, died in 2021 at the age of 93. But when the 39th president was revealed to have brain cancer in 2015, Mondale prepared a...

Jan 6, 2025 · Carter's vice president, Walter Mondale, died in 2021 but he left behind a eulogy that his son Ted will read at the service. In 2015, Carter, who was 90 years old at the time, announced he had...

Dec 30, 2024 · Former President Gerald R. Ford, who died in 2006, likewise left a eulogy that will be read by his son, Steven Ford. In the tribute he left PETER BAKER FROM THE NEW YORK TIMES Former Vice President Walter F. Mondale thought he would still be around to speak at the funeral for Jimmy Carter, who was a little more than three years his senior.

Jan 9, 2025 · Walter Mondale's wasn't the only posthumous eulogy delivered at Carter's state funeral. President Gerald Ford also wrote a eulogy for Carter before he died in 2006, which was read by his son...