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Looking back, Walter F. Mondale isn't sure when the first sign of his wife Joan's illness appeared. "I realized that she had started walking more slowly, and I didn't know what that meant. I wasn't really suspicious at first; I just thought she wanted to walk more slowly," recalls the former US Vice President and 1984 presidential candidate ...
Feb 4, 2014 · ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Joan Mondale was given a grand platform when her husband was elected Jimmy Carter's vice president in 1976. And she used it. The avid arts advocate lobbied Congress and the states for more spending on arts programs, and she traveled frequently to museums, theaters and artists' studios on the administration's behalf. She was so passionate that she earned the nickname ...
Feb 8, 2014 · MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Political dignitaries joined family members at Saturday's memorial service for Joan Mondale, the wife of a former vice president who was remembered as "a highly charged battery of positive energy" for her passion and persistence about arts, politics and community.
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Feb 3, 2014 · The family had announced Sunday that she had gone into hospice care, but declined to discuss her illness. An arts lover and an avid potter, Joan Mondale was given a grand platform to promote the ...
Feb 4, 2014 · Associated Press. Joan Mondale, whose promotion and advocacy of painting, sculpture and other fine arts earned her the nickname Joan of Art in Washington during the vice presidency of her husband ...
ST. PAUL, Minnesota (AP) — Joan Mondale, who burnished a reputation as "Joan of Art" for her passionate advocacy for the arts while her husband was vice president and a U.S. ambassador to Japan, died Monday.
Feb 4, 2014 · Joan Mondale, the wife of former U.S. Vice President Walter Mondale, was known as a champion of the arts. ... The family did not provide details on her illness.
