“Ferraro was a three-term representative who was seen as a rising star in the party. “Mondale took a lot of heat for considering people who did not have conventional experience but he recognized that since women and other minorities had been excluded from participating at the highest levels of national electoral and appointive service, one had to seek talent in less conventional ways,” Goldstein says. He also considered two African Americans and one Latino mayor, as well as more conventional candidates including Sen. While previously the only diversity question for the office had been “whether to choose a Catholic for the ticket,” according to Goldstein, Mondale interviewed three women for the job: Ferraro, Mayor Diane Feinstein of San Francisco and Kentucky Gov. “Walter Mondale's public service was dedicated to opening doors for disadvantaged groups and he constructed his VP selection process consistent with that commitment.” Louis University and author of The White House Vice Presidency: The Path to Significance, Mondale to Biden. Goldstein, vice-presidential historian, professor of law emeritus at St. “The Ferraro pick represented the intersection of principle and politics,” says Joel K. Walter Mondale announcing his vice president pick, Geraldine Ferraro, in 1984.ĭown 16 points in the polls when Mondale named Ferarro, then 48, his vice president pick, the excitement surrounding the nomination gave the new ticket a big bounce, bringing the polling to nearly even with Republican challengers Ronald Reagan and his running mate, George H.W. READ MORE: ‘Unbought and Unbossed’: Why Shirley Chisholm Ran for President Ferraro’s Nomination Boosted Mondale’s Ticket And Shirley Chisholm, in 1972, was the first woman to run for the Democratic presidential nomination and the first Black candidate to run for a major party's nomination. Margaret Chase Smith, who ran for the Republican nomination in 1964, was the first woman whose name was placed in nomination at a major political party convention. Hillary Clinton, in 2016, became the first, and only, woman to receive a presidential nomination by a major party. The first woman to be named a vice-presidential candidate for a major party, Ferraro, who died in 2011 at age 75 from complications due to multiple myeloma, remains one of three women, along with Republican Sarah Palin, in 2008, and Democrat Kamala Harris, in 2020, to receive such a nomination. If we can do this, we can do anything,” Ferraro said July 19, 1984, during her acceptance speech at the Democratic National Convention in San Francisco. I hope they find comfort in knowing that he is with his beloved wife, Joan, and daughter, Eleanor, now-and that his legacy will live on in all of us.Įach time I open my desk drawer and see his signature there, alongside the signatures of 11 other Vice Presidents, I will be reminded of and grateful for Vice President Mondale’s life of service.When Walter Mondale announced Geraldine Ferraro as his running mate during the 1984 presidential campaign, the three-term New York Congresswoman called the historic choice a "powerful signal" to all Americans. I will miss him dearly, and my heart is with his family today. I was able to speak with him just a few days ago and thank him for his service and his steadfastness. Vice President Mondale was so generous with his wit and wisdom over the years. With that nomination, Vice President Mondale opened “a new door to the future,” to borrow his words. He selected Congresswoman Geraldine Ferraro as his running mate-the first woman to be nominated as Vice President on a major party ticket in American history. When he won the Democratic Party presidential nomination in 1984, Vice President Mondale made a bold and historic choice. Vice President Mondale worked side by side with President Carter as the two endeavored to end the arms race, promote human rights, and establish peace.
He brought the President and the Vice President closer together, re-defining the relationship as a true partnership. Under President Jimmy Carter, Vice President Mondale transformed the Office of the Vice President. As United States Senator, he fought for equal justice-working tirelessly to ban discrimination in housing and to build the Great Society. He defended our nation as a member of the United States Army during the Korean War, and he protected our Constitution as Minnesota’s Attorney General.
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