Fritz Mondale Book Request (Please Read)

Self | October 27, 2002 | PJ-Comix

[NotJustAnotherPrettyFace]

Hey folks - PJ and I have been digging around for some background on ol' Fritzy. Maybe you can use some of the information and esp. the QUOTES above in your MN FReepeing efforts?

[Miss Marple]

I have just finished reading 47 pages of an interview with Lawrence O'Brien about the Humphrey presidential campaign against Nixon. This is in PDF format, so I haven't linked it. It is at the Johnson library.

There is something but I don't know what. Mondale was on the steering committee and originally attended all the meetings. Then Mondale quit coming to the meetings, and interviewer for the library asks O'Brien about the significance. O'Brien says Mondale was "out in the field" but that seems quite odd. He then dodges further discussion about Mondale.

McCarthy refused to do any more than send a letter to the SOS of New York requesting his name be removed from the ballot, which it wasn't. This split the democrat vote in New York and gave Nixon the edge.

I will do some more searching but I did find this out. I had to read the entire interview before I got this information, which was near the end. ZZZZZZzzzzzzz.

[reg45]

I remember that episode. Thanks for the memory jog. Perhaps we could get Neil Armstrong to say "If Walter Mondale had had his way I never would have gone to the moon."

[NotJustAnotherPrettyFace]

Joan Mondale, wife of Walter Mondale, visits the Al-Amal School, full-time Islamic School in Minnesota.

[PJ-Comix]

I think there will be some good answers in that Edgar Berman book. To tell you the truth I am not 100% sure if the MN senator who betrayed Humphrey was Mondale or Eugene McCarthy but it doesn't seem like it would be McCarthy simply because he was openly at odds with Humphrey politically. To be betrayed it takes someone who you thought you can count on which wouldn't describe McCarthy but would definitely describe Mondale.

Anyway, tomorrow I hope to find that book and get the answers. It's amazing how something like that can come back at you years later. I never would have even remembered it if Mondull wasn't back in the news. And the day I saw that info in that book, I must have scanned several thousand pages of at least a score of other books. I do a lot of that. I'll go to the library and spend at least 6 hours there leisurely mainlining info from scores of books. To many it might seem like a silly activity but every once in a while, you can glean a diamond of information.

BTW, something like this happened to me 10 years ago. Somehow I remember reading a couple of very disparate bits of information years apart that seemed to indicate that Wally George was married for a brief period to two different women at the same time. I found this interesting so I searched deep into microfilm records and found out that I was WRONG! Wally had actually been legally married to THREE different women at the same time for a period of about a couple of weeks (Trigamy?). Anyway, I passed this info along to the National Enquirer and they published it since Wally's daughter is actress, Rebecca DeMornay. Hey, they actually paid me $350 for that info!!!

[terilyn]

Thanks for the ping and for the ideas.

We're working hard to encourage Norm not to rollover and give up.

He was out today, giving several respectful interviews. Local political show, "At Issue", also Fox News, MSNBC, and CNN.

I also emailed him to remind him that a lot of Minnesotan's had given a lot of time and money to work to get him elected. He owes it to the people that have worked so tirelessly for him to continue the fight, win or lose.

[NotJustAnotherPrettyFace]

Good - that's great to hear. I'm going to try to make contact with the Coleman campaign tomorrow with the "opposition research" we've done here.

[NotJustAnotherPrettyFace]

Very cool. You're an investigative reporter at heart, even if you don't do that for a living full-time :-).

[Clemenza]

A friend of the family (our dentist) when we lived in Minnesota once said you had to be born in Iowa to be a Republican in Minnesota.

Alls I know is, that in Lake Wobegon, the Lutherans vote Republican to spite the Catholics who vote Democrat. Garrison Keillor told me so!