After leaving the government in 1981 Walter F. Mondale became counsel to the law firm of Winston & Strawn, At the time he also undertook various other business activities. In addition, during 1981 through the November 1982 elections Mr. Mondale was active on behalf of candidates of the Democratic Party and the Committee for the Future of America (CFA),
In his 1975 book, The Accountability of Power, Walter Mondale described why he had abandoned his campaign for the 1976 Democratic presidential nomination in midstream. “I simply did not have the overwhelming desire necessary to do what had to be done to get elected,” he wrote. By 1981 Mondale had put that hesitation aside. He was ready to do