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Column: Fishing buddies savored visits from Walter Mondale, and vice versa Jimmy Carter was a fisherman, still is, and perhaps in 1976 when he selected "Fritz'' to be his vice presidential candidate, he saw in Walter Mondale a kindred spirit whose angler temperament might come in handy in a pinch. Written By: Dennis Anderson / Star Tribune | 8:04 am, May 3, 2021 × Walter Mondale, with longtime friend and current St. Louis County Sheriff Ross Litman, was an avid fisherman who traveled to Alaska to fish for salmon. Walleyes were his favorite, however. Courtesy Ross Litman...

Mondale left mark on Duluth, Iron Range The former vice president was no stranger to Northeastern Minnesota, making frequent campaign stops and forging lifelong friendships with local political and legal leaders. 5:40 am, Apr. 21, 2021 × Vice President Walter Mondale speaks at Hibbing High School in January 1980. (File / News Tribune) Ross Litman was on a late-season campaign swing across the Iron Range in 2002 when he bumped into Walter Mondale, who was delivering a stump speech of his own at the Iron Man monument in Chisholm. Litman was a first-time candidate who had ...

Jim Heffernan: Memories of Mondale include Piedmont Heights 'attack' From the column: "I was, in a sense, present at the creation of Mondale as a nationally significant political leader." Written By: Jim Heffernan | × Jim Heffernan Like every other high-level Minnesota politician, Walter Mondale visited Duluth quite often during his active years, almost always calling on the state’s third-largest newspaper here in Duluth. In my various newsroom roles at the News Tribune (and Duluth Herald before it was discontinued), I met him many times, causing me to reflect on those times ...