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You’re bound to get a good party when it’s thrown by your former aide who went on to head Fannie Mae. So it was for former veep and Democratic presidential candidate Walter Mondale, who turned 80 on Jan. 5.
On Saturday, Jim Johnson, the aide in question, along with his wife, Maxine Isaacs, and lobbyist Michael Berman, celebrated Mondale’s milestone at Johnson’s posh penthouse suite in the Ritz-Carlton residences in Georgetown, overlooking the Potomac.
The 65 invited guests included a bunch of former office-holders, among them Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, Treasury Secretary Bob Rubin, Carter White House aideStuart Eizenstat, Democratic fundraiser Smith Bagley, Sens. Paul Sarbanes and John Culver, and a host of journalists who covered the Minnesotan.
Everybody went home with red, white or blue baseball hats with “WFM 80” on them, as well as a copy of Joan Mondale’s recipe for pumpkin bread, which she handed out when her husband was in the Senate.
An e-mail that went out to friends of Mondale just before his birthday said the Democratic icon “just spent a few days in Iowa campaigning, and still exaggerates about his fishing exploits.”
