GOLDEN VALLEY, Minn. – When former President Jimmy Carter was diagnosed with cancer in 2015, at age 91, he asked Walter Mondale to write a eulogy for delivery at his funeral. Mondale, who was Carter’s vice president, agreed. But Carter outlived Mondale, who died in 2021 at age 93. Now one of Mondale’ sons, Ted, will deliver the eulogy that his father wrote. This will be Thursday at the Carter funeral at the National Cathedral. Mondale said the eulogy talks about Carter as a champion nor human rights and civil rights, “He talks about Carter as then a georgia governor in 1971 in his inaugural address, saying, you know, we need to stand up for the legacy of Martin Luther King Jr. That was big.” He talks also about Carter as a man of his word, Ted Mondale said.
National Cathedral. A mile from the White House.
Ted Mondale profile
Ted Mondale, noe 67 and now retired in the Minneapolis suburb of Golden Valley, was a member of the Minnesota Senate from 1991 to1997. In 1998 he sought the Democratic nomination for Minnesota governor. He later led an organization to promote regional economic development. He also served a vice president of Minnesota-based United Healthcare. In 1999 he was appointed chair of the Metropolitan Council, which guides planning, transit, wastewater operations, regional parks and affordable housing in a seven-county region.
Recollections. Remembers himself as a geenager in and out of the Carter-Mondale White House. “He wasn’t too important to talk to some 19-year-old kid with kind of long hair,” Mondale recalled in a KARE television interview. He called Carter a kind man.