 Joan Mondale then became Second Lady, succeeding Happy Rockefeller, during her husband's term as Vice President from 1977 to 1981, to be succeeded by Barbara Bush.Out of office during Reagan's first administration, Walter Mondale won the Democratic presidential nomination in 1984.As a prospective First Lady, Joan Mondale told Maureen Dowd of "The New York Times" that she would not talk about recipes or clothes during the campaign, but when her husband's political opponents made issue with this, costing him votes, she published The Mondale Family Cookbook, with recipes like Fettucine à la Pimento Mondale, and declared that she was a "traditional wife and mother and supporter".