article_snippet: (CNN)Former Vice President Walter Mondale was released from the Mayo Clinic on Saturday after being admitted with influenza, hospital spokeswoman Kelley Luckstein said.
article_snippet: Walter Mondale's doing well.
article_snippet: We treated Walter Mondale for flu and cold symptoms and Walter Mondale was released today," hospital spokeswoman Kelley Luckstein said.
article_snippet: Mondale, 87, was diagnosed after Walter Mondale went to the hospital for a routine checkup following a fever, former President Jimmy Carter said Friday.
article_snippet: Walter Mondale is in the bed right this moment, but looking forward to come back home," former President Jimmy Carter said during a speech at a Nobel Peace Prize Forum in Minneapolis.
article_snippet: Walter Mondale said tell everybody Walter Mondale is doing well.
article_snippet: Walter Mondale underwent treatment at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota.
article_snippet: Walter Mondale served under former President Jimmy Carter between 1977 and 1981, and later ran for President, but lost to Ronald Reagan.
article_snippet: But not before Walter Mondale made history by naming a woman, U.S. Rep. Geraldine A. Ferraro of New York, as Walter Mondale running mate.
article_snippet: Before that, the former lawyer was  a U.S. senator from Minnesota.
article_snippet: the former lawyer wife, Joan Mondale, died last year.
highlights_snippet: Walter Mondale was released from the Mayo Clinic on Saturday, hospital spokeswoman Kelley Luckstein said .
  
highlights_snippet: The former vice president, 87, was treated for cold and flu symptoms .