But Reagan went on to win reelection in a landslide over Walter Mondale in 1984.
Despite the historic nature of the race, her addition to Walter Mondale's ticket proved fruitless.
If confirmed by the Senate, Foley would replace former Vice President Walter Mondale as ambassador.
Walter Mondale famously defeated Ronald Reagan quite handily in the first out of two 1984 debates.
By the time Walter Mondale conceded defeat in Minnesota, though, it was all over for the Democrats.
In August 1983, Reagan led Walter Mondale by one point, and went on to a landslide 59%-41% victory.
The "San Francisco Democrats" dominated the 1984 convention, but the party still nominated the establishment liberal Walter Mondale.
When Geraldine Ferraro was picked as Walter Mondale's running-mate, she had served in the House for three terms.
Former Vice President WALTER MONDALE: When I hear your new ideas, I'm reminded of that ad, Where's the beef?
He had served as a Senate staffer to Walter Mondale back and then chief of staff when Mondale became vice president.
PAUL, Minnesota (CNN) -- Republican Norm Coleman defeated Walter Mondale, a former vice president and senator who replaced the late Sen.
The new candidate is Walter Mondale, former vice-president to Jimmy Carter, and a man widely known and respected in the state.
Walter Mondale was not only a former senator but he was a former vice president when he ran for president in 1984.
Gary Hart and Walter Mondale fighting it out in California in June.
It was stuffed with policy positions from the Walter Mondale campaign and painted with images of single mothers, underpaid workers and forgotten soldiers.
That's one reason vice presidents like Hubert Humphrey, Walter Mondale, Dan Quayle and Al Gore often have trouble winning the presidency on their own.
Walter Mondale's picking Geraldine Ferraro took a hammer to America's glass ceiling, but helped little in his quixotic 1984 effort to topple Ronald Reagan.
Why have politicians started paying attention to a group that was once regarded as so dodgy that in 1984 Walter Mondale returned its donations?
And he was a man also, I might say, in charge of vetting vice presidential candidates for Walter Mondale in '84 and John Kerry in '04.
"We did offer, twice, " said University of Minnesota president Eric Kaler, pointing out that Minnesota graduates Hubert Humphrey and Walter Mondale were Democratic nominees for president.
The handle "former vice president" carried no clout for Democrat Walter Mondale, who lost his Minnesota bid for the Senate to a former mayor, Republican Norm Coleman.
We all went crazy when Geraldine Ferraro was picked the first female vice presidential choice on a major party ticket in 1984, and Walter Mondale lost 49 states.
In the 1984 election, the then-Colorado senator shocked the political establishment when he beat former Vice President Walter Mondale by 10 percentage points in the New Hampshire primary.
Jimmy Carter elevated the vice presidency into a real position of policy-partnership, giving Walter Mondale an unprecedented role, which led him to be the Democratic presidential nominee in 1984.
The likes of Walter Mondale and Michael Dukakis, on the left, and Barry Goldwater, on the right, may have won brownie points from their supporters for sticking to their principles.
Walter Mondale appealed to traditional Democrats such as organized labor and African-Americans who were distrustful of Jimmy Carter, an unknown Southerner who did not seem sympathetic to the party's core ideas.
Former Vice President Walter Mondale has endorsed Hillary Clinton.
Former Vice President and Minnesota Senator Walter Mondale, who helped to write the Fair Housing Act, somehow heard about the case and called Mayor Coleman, a fellow Democrat, to express his concern.
Late Friday, national and Minnesota Democratic sources said party and labor officials would reach out to Walter Mondale, the former vice president and senator from Minnesota, about replacing Wellstone on the ballot.
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