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Walter Mondale says that he and Jimmy Carter redefined the vice-presidency in 1977, setting a new precedent of access, influence and collaboration that has been followed by every vice president since. Mondale called himself Carter's "sideman," not just his understudy, and he hosted a discussion on the topic at Macalester College in 2002. It was part of the ongoing Mondale Lectures on Public Service. A number of people from the Carter administration participated in the conversation, among them his chief domestic policy advisor, Stuart Eizenstat.

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