Ted Mondale, son of former Vice President Walter Mondale, Jill Stuckey, Carter National Historical Park Superintendent, and historian Jon Meacham join Andrea Mitchell to reflect on the extraordinary life of President Jimmy Carter.

At first, Jimmy Carter was a political wizard. But he couldn’t keep the magic act going.

Carter “finally earned a different and better place in the opinion of many Americans,” Mondale said in a 2019 interview.

In his eulogy, Walter Mondale praised Carter for making human rights the linchpin of his foreign policy, for promoting environmental measures and for placing more women in high office than his predecessors, according to the newspaper. That included appointing future Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg as an appeals judge.

The world is reflecting on former President Jimmy Carter’s legacy after he passed away on Sunday, Dec. 29, at 100 years old.

As 39th president, Carter appointed several Minnesotans, including Bob Bergland, of Roseau, as secretary of agriculture.

Jimmy Carter’s funeral service at the National Cathedral on Jan. 9 will include a heartfelt eulogy from the grave. Walter Mondale, who was Carter’s running mate in 1976 and again in 1980 ...

My experience with the Carter/Mondale administration played a pivotal role in my own public and private sector career, especially here in Virginia, for which I’m eternally grateful.

Their administration ensured full protection of the Boundary Waters when it was still susceptible to logging and mining.

President Carter shared a profound and enduring partnership with his vice president, Minnesota’s own Walter Mondale, during their term in office from 1977 to 1981 and in the decades afterward. Mondale, who passed away in 2021, was one of the Humphrey School’s most cherished supporters.