New York Times,
Oct. 21, 1983
http://www.nytimes.com/1983/10/24/us/mondale-s-tightrope-act-on-the-carter-problem.html
' . . . Perhaps the most significant disagreement with his boss was over the ''crisis of confidence'' speech that Mr. Carter delivered in July 1979 instead of a speech on energy. Mr. Mondale, who had argued strenuously against the President's making that speech, does not dispute that he went so far as to describe as ''crazy'' the diagnosis made by Patrick Caddell, the White House pollster, that the nation was suffering from a deep ''malaise.'' . . . '
' . . . Hamilton Jordan, the former White House chief of staff, said in his book, ''Crisis,'' that ''some of Mondale's critics contended that he was not forceful or effective in internal debates with the President. Nothing was more untrue. Perhaps the most admirable characteristic of Fritz Mondale as Vice President was that he fought hard for what he believed in on the inside, yet would accept the President's decisions and go out and defend them publicly.'' . . . '