President Joe Biden saluted his “friend of five decades” Walter Mondale former VP on Sunday.

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While traveling to the University of Minnesota to remember the former vice president and Democratic Party elder .

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The memorial service was delayed for a year due to the pandemic.

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The Former VP Mondale died in April 2021 at age 93.

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Walter Mondale is credited with transforming the office of the vice presidency.

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Biden himself held this for eight years under President BarackObama.

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Biden said, Mondale “was a giant in American political history,”

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Biden added that he was one of the “toughest, smartest men I’ve ever worked with.

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President Joe Biden saluted his “friend of five decades” Walter Mondale former VP on Sunday.

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May 02 2022