Walter F. Mondale papers, 1927-2004 (bulk 1948-2002).

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Walter F. Mondale papers, 1927-2004 (bulk 1948-2002).

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Senatorial, vice presidential, ambassadorial, political papers and campaign files, and personal papers of a United States Senator from Minnesota (1964-1976), Vice President of the United States (1977-1981), Ambassador to Japan (1993-1996), and Special Envoy to Indonesia (1998), documenting most aspects of Mondale's six-decade career, including all of his public offices, campaigns, and Democratic Party and other non-official activities. Materials from Mondale's U.S. Senate career include schedules and appointments, meeting files, bill and committee files, outgoing correspondence, sampled constituent correspondence and constituent service records, press releases, speeches, radio broadcasts, and news clippings. A large set of wide-ranging issue files kept for each year by Mondale's Senate office concern federal departments, international affairs, domestic matters, and state issues. Vice presidential materials include scheduling and appointment files, central correspondence and subject files, assorted domestic policy and briefing materials, trip files, speeches, press releases, photographs, sound recordings, and moving images as well as the files of chief of staff Richard Moe and Senate relations assistant Bill Smith, and files of a task force to study the public financing of election campaigns. National security and foreign affairs files from Mondale's vice-presidency are held by the Office of Presidential Libraries and housed at the Jimmy Carter Library. A small number of these files, including his reports on meetings with foreign leaders and agenda materials for the foreign policy breakfasts and his weekly meetings with Carter, have been declassified and copies are available as part of the Walter F. Mondale papers. Mondale's personal papers document his family, education, military service, and political activities. Included are correspondence, telephone logs, photographs, memorabilia, and drafts of a Mondale biography written by Steven M. Gillon Political papers and campaign files (1934-2004) include materials from Mondale's 1962 Attorney General campaign, 1962 and 1966 Senate campaigns, the 1976 and 1980 Presidential campaigns where Mondale ran as Jimmy Carters Vice President, and extensive files from the 1984 Presidential campaign in which Mondale ran for President against Ronald Reagan. Correspondence, briefing material, meeting files, speeches, news clippings, video and sound recordings from Mondale's term as Ambassador to Japan (1993-1996) and Special Envoy to Indonesia (1998).

908.5 cu. ft. (948 boxes).

Minnesota Historical Society, Division of Archives and Manuscripts

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