Former Senate majority leader Harry Reid has passed away. Revisit THR’s chat with the Democratic leader:
Reid, as anyone who even occassionally follows politics knows, was born in Searchlight, a wasteland of a small town — no grass, trees or bodies of water — where his father was a miner and his mother took in wash from one of the town’s 13 brothels. Both were alcoholics. As a boy with little to do in town, he explored beyond it, eventually happening upon Piute Springs, a lush desert oasis. “That is where I became an environmentalist,” he recalls.
O’Callaghan, who was charismatic and well-connected in ways that Reid was not, and would soon enter local politics, believed in the potential of Reid to rise above his station and achieve great things. He rallied local businessmen to pay for Reid to attend college, and then procured for him a patronage job as a Capitol Hill police officer to help Reid afford to attend George Washington University Law School.
From 1977 through 1981, Reid, at great risk to himself and his family — his wife once found a car bomb planted in the family station wagon — took on Las Vegas’ most corrupt operators and rebuilt his public profile. And then, in 1982, when population growth led to Nevada receiving an additional congressional seat, he ran for it and won. Four years later, he mounted a run for the Senate seat which was being vacated by the man who had throttled him a dozen years earlier, and won again.
An amateur boxer who didn’t mind getting bruised in a fight, Reid was an obvious candidate to join the leadership of the Senate Democrats. He served as co-chair of the Democratic Policy Committee from 1995 through 1999; then whip from 1999 through 2005 ; and then, after the upset of Sen.in 2004, party leader, in the minority from 2005 through 2007, then in the majority from 2007 through 2015, and then again in the minority from 2015 through 2017.
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