{"id":126800,"date":"2021-12-29T08:41:41","date_gmt":"2021-12-29T07:41:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/?p=126800"},"modified":"2021-12-29T08:41:41","modified_gmt":"2021-12-29T07:41:41","slug":"former-us-senate-leader-harry-reid-dies-at-82","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/2021\/12\/29\/former-us-senate-leader-harry-reid-dies-at-82\/","title":{"rendered":"Former US Senate leader Harry Reid dies at 82"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former US Senate majority leader Harry Reid, a Nevada Democrat who rose from humble beginnings to lead the upper chamber during the presidencies of George W. Bush and Barack Obama, died Tuesday. He was 82.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am heartbroken to announce the passing of my husband,\u201d his wife, Landra, said in a statement released to US media, adding he died \u201cpeacefully this afternoon, surrounded by our family.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Reid, who used his experience in Congress to help Obama steer his landmark Affordable Care Act through the Senate, had been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in 2018.<\/p>\n<p>Laconic and soft-spoken, Reid was born and raised in the mining town of Searchlight, Nevada on December 2, 1939, in a house with no hot water or indoor toilets.<\/p>\n<p>A prize-fighter in his youth, he used his pugilistic instincts to work his way up to becoming one of the longest-serving majority leaders in US Senate history, and even called his memoir \u201cThe Good Fight.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/2021\/11\/19\/kamala-harris-to-serve-as-u-s-acting-president-as-joe-biden-undergoes-medical-procedure\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">President Joe Biden<\/a>, who served as Obama\u2019s vice president and with Reid for two decades in the Senate, said in a statement his former colleague was a \u201cgiant of our history\u201d and one of the \u201call-time great Senate Majority Leaders.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor Harry, it wasn\u2019t about power for power\u2019s sake. It was about the power to do right for the people.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Obama on Tuesday made public a letter he had written to Reid shortly before his death, in which he said: \u201cI wouldn\u2019t have been president had it not been for your encouragement and support, and I wouldn\u2019t have got most of what I got done without your skill and determination.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Current Senate majority leader Chuck Schumer, a Democrat from New York, tweeted Reid was \u201cone of the most amazing individuals I\u2019ve ever met.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe never forgot where he came from and used those boxing instincts to fearlessly fight those who were hurting the poor &amp; middle class.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Despite his hardscrabble upbringing, Reid was elected to the Senate in 1986 and became the chamber\u2019s Democratic leader in the 2004 elections.<\/p>\n<p>He served as the majority leader from 2007 to 2015.<\/p>\n<p>Reid often referred to his working-class origins \u2014 his father was a miner, his mother a laundress, and neither parent graduated from high school.<\/p>\n<p>He hitchhiked 40 miles (65 kilometers) as a teenager to attend the nearest high school, then graduated from Utah State University and put himself through George Washington University Law School by working nights as a member of the US Capitol Police.<\/p>\n<p>Quixotic, he once filibustered the Republicans by himself for nine hours, reading from the history book he wrote about his hometown of Searchlight.<\/p>\n<p>Reid was more conservative than most other Democrats in the Senate.<\/p>\n<p>A practicing Mormon, he was staunchly against abortion rights \u2014 a stance that sometimes found him working at cross purposes with others in his Democratic caucus.<\/p>\n<p>House Speaker Nancy Pelosi called Reid a \u201ctitan,\u201d describing him as \u201ca leader of immense courage and ferocious conviction who worked tirelessly to achieve historic progress for the American people.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mitch McConnell, the Republican minority leader in the Senate, said Reid\u2019s rise from poverty to political power was a \u201cquintessentially American story, and it took Harry\u2019s legendary toughness, bluntness and tenacity to make it happen.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Reid had remained outspoken and blunt even in retirement.<\/p>\n<p>He slammed McConnell in 2020 for ramming through then-president Donald Trump\u2019s Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney-Barrett just two months before the election, after having refused to allow a vote on an Obama nominee nine months before the 2016 election.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe and the chairman of the judiciary committee \u2014 it\u2019s just terrible what they\u2019ve done\u2026 They are such hypocrites,\u201d Reid said of McConnell at the time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former US Senate majority leader Harry Reid, a Nevada Democrat who rose from humble beginnings to lead the upper chamber during the presidencies of George W. 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