Ted was only made aware of the eulogy after his father passed in 2021, and will speak at Carter's funeral service on Thursday in the nation's Capital. The final eulogy is still be

Before former Vice President Walter Mondale died in 2021, he left behind the eulogy he had planned to deliver. His son Ted Mondale will read it at Jimmy Carter’s memorial service at Washington National Cathedral on Jan.

In his eulogy, Walter Mondale praised Carter for making human rights the linchpin of his foreign policy, for promoting environmental measures and for placing more women in high office than his predecessors, according to the newspaper. That included appointing future Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg as an appeals judge.