[ Ready go to ... https://www.pinejournal.com/news/government-and-politics/6992318-Family-says-former-Vice-President-Walter-Mondale-has-died-at-93 [ Family says former Vice President Walter Mondale has died at 93] ]
Mondale made his biggest mark as the vice president who converted that office from a historical joke — Vice President John Nance Gardner famously described it as a job that wasn’t “worth a pitcher of warm spit” — to one of the vital centers in American government.