ENCORE: The Contenders with Walter Mondale

Words Matter

Riley Fessler

News, Government

4.6 • 2.8K Ratings

🗓️ 13 April 2020

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

The Contenders is a special podcast series by Joe Lockhart. Given the importance of the race for the Democratic presidential nomination, we thought it important and informative to hear from those people who've actually run for president. What goes into the decision? How do you possibly get to the place of thinking you can take on the toughest job in the world? What were your biggest mistakes as a candidate? What lessons did you learn and what advice do you have for those running against Donald Trump? Joe recently traveled to Minnesota to interview his former boss, Vice Presidential Walter Mondale. Nearly a quarter century before Sarah Palin was picked by John McCain, it was Walter Mondale who first put a woman on a national ticket when he picked Congresswoman Geraldine Ferraro in 1984. The former Vice President reflects on that and much more. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/words-matter. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to Words Matter with Katie Barlow and Joe Lockhart.
0:12.0	Welcome to Words Matter, I'm Katie Barlow.
0:15.7	Our goal is to promote objective reality.
0:18.8	As a wise man once said, everyone is entitled to their own opinion, not their own facts.
0:25.1	Have power and words have consequences.
0:33.1	Welcome to a special edition of Words Matter, The Contenders.
0:39.2	Joe, first tell us about the series, what or who are the contenders?
0:45.5	Well, the contenders are quite simply people who've run for president of the United States.
0:50.3	Given the intense interest on the Democratic side in the primaries and with the now several
0:56.0	candidates challenging Donald Trump, we thought it would be interesting and fascinating to hear
1:02.2	from people who've run for president what it's like, what goes into the decision,
1:07.9	how do you possibly get to the place of thinking you can take on the toughest job in the world,
1:13.6	the leader of the free world, how your family reacts to that and then what it was like.
1:19.4	So tell us about your first guest. It was a campaign you worked on and candidate you were proud
1:25.7	to serve. Yeah, I spent nearly two years working for Walter Mondale. I was 23 when I joined his campaign
1:33.0	and it really was the first campaign where I got to see firsthand how this all works.
1:37.6	I traveled with him for over a year, vacationed with him, masquerading as one of his children,
1:43.3	because he didn't want staff around. Really?
1:45.2	Vacations, really. Almost got away with it. But it gave me a sense of what it takes to win
1:55.1	the nomination and try to be president and what the toll it takes on the candidate.
2:00.3	So I really wanted the vice president to be the first in this series because it's something
2:06.0	important and special to me. Now, many people forget that nearly a quarter century before
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