Former VP Mondale recovering from heart surgery
Former Vice President Walter Mondale in 2010.
Jeffrey Thompson / MPR News, File
Former Vice President Walter Mondale is recovering from heart surgery.
Mondale underwent the surgery Wednesday at Mayo Clinic in Rochester. His family said in a statement he is doing fine and is expected to make a full recovery.
Mondale is 86. The surgery comes soon after the death of his wife, Joan.
Walter Mondale was vice president in the 1970s, a Democratic nominee for president in the 1980s and an ambassador to Japan in the 1990s.
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