Harry Reid, former Senate majority leader and Democratic kingmaker, dies at 82

Harry Reed, the most prestigious darling in the state and the United States, died on Tuesday after four years of pancreatic cancer, emerging from the sluggish countryside in the countryside of Nevada. 82 years old.

6 2-yea r-old Lida, Landla, said in his statement that he called his wife a "devout family, a deep and faithful friend" and was actually surrounded by his family.

Once undergoing surgery in 2018 due to precursor to pancreatic cancer, which contains the shortest characteristic of survival, it was thought that Reed was approaching the end of life. However, last summer, the lead actually underwent an experimental surgery and announced that it was in a "complete remission" and had no cancer.

"I'm grateful that almost everyone has helped us over the past few years. I am more grateful to him.

In over 30 years of parliamentary activities, Reed, of course, was evaluated as a fierce person who fought fierce to protect the identity and simple Yankee. He was a favorite of the Senate Democratic Party for over a dozen years, and played an important role in the establishment of low-cost medical and parliamentary law-general law to restore the economy after the magnificent recession.

"Without your help and encouragement, I wouldn't have been the president. Without your professional consciousness and determination, I would have almost never achieved it," he said. The statement is stated.

President Joe Pliing called Red "Dear, and Giants of Our History."

"Harry basically has done something, and he did it. If he chose a text for you, he had the opportunity to plan it. For example, for decades. Biden said in the statement, "he achieved results for the state's profits." "Harry focused on the world's challenges, and believed our power to create, correct, and contribute to the improvement of the federal that we all loved. "

The lead also dedicated a lot of aqu a-time to tasks in the first space with resources, energy, public lan d-intense rise. According to Reed's 2020 textbooks, more than 50 % of his business in Congress touched in the middle or other form.

Reed, who was a skillful fan who was a clever transaction, and sometimes the extreme person who made as many opposition as a friend, sometimes turned his former opposition into a friend, so from both parties colleagues. It was not respected correctly. To sparse, the tongue was sharp, and Reed had to listen to what he said.

Lead declared to a banker to save Las Vegas's city center plan, made a false claim that Mitt Romney had not actually paid taxes for 10 years, and held a alignment that could not be settled with politicians. 。

He definitely supports higher freezing in the political state of Nevada, and the staff has a collection of voters in 2008, thanks to the Nevada presidential elections in Iowa and New Hampshire. He talked for the fact that he was. In the past four election cycles, the horde of the presidential candidates, in effect, has flowed through the state through the state and raised the state's authority at the state level.

He still transformed the Nevada Democratic Party into a wel l-known political management called "Lida Machine", and has set up many Democrats in intense races for the past decade.

"The Democratic Party's Governor Steve Sizolak said," Harry Reed was a giant. For me, he was a mentor, founder, the person he expected, every time, and everything was fair. Ta"

Despite such a high level, Lid did not forget his irreparable origin under a small town, above all, under the spotlights that respect hard work, skills and freedom. In a speech in the 2016 Senate Conference in the Senate Conference, Reed told him that his idea was considered to be the key to happiness.

"I ate the tail of life, but it's not thanks to my sports abilities. It's not because of my looks. It's not the result of being a genius. Lido said," I tell everyone. I think everyone can do whatever the whole spirit is.

Former Senate Harry Reed arrived on February 15, 2020 (Saturday) to hand over the Nevada state's early polling personal vote at the Las Vegas Library. (Daniel Clark/ Nevada Independent paper)

The boy

Reed appeared on December 2, 1939 in South Clark, a major city in the mining boom. The founder Harry Senior is a coal mine with eight classes, and his mother, Ines, has been a laundry woman at a prostitute or a casino, and has not graduated from high school. Lead lived in a small hut without inner water supply, and in the eighth grade, he studied at a school with two teachers. When he was young, the founder sometimes united in an underground mine and studied swimming in a pool of a prostitution.

Since there was no high school in the Tokyo metropolitan area, Lid drove 40 miles with hitchhiker and attended a basic product school in Henderson. So, the athlete who was selected as a graduation class, tried to leave the roots of his search.

When I entered the research institute, when I was a high school student, or when I was in the law, I didn't want to talk about spotlights. Lido said at his parting concert in 2016. "It was a mean space. I didn't show any photos of my house.

Lead met in high school lover, Landra Gold, at secondary school. After receiving secondary education for two years, in 1959, they married, despite her parents' wishes. The founder from the Jewish was opposed here, so she was with the person who professed the religion. Later, her guards reconciled their marriage, and they met Mormon, but the main holidays were marked until the guardian died.

By 1961, the lead family was born in the first child and four children: Lorley, Leaf, Josh, and Ki.

Landra was born from studying at Reed's elementary school, and there was no strong connection with Reed. He was a coach of his boxing, coach, leader, advisor, and the 23rd Governor of Nevada.

"I remember the first day at school. A big person came in. He had a wonderful comb. I still remember his comb," said Rido's 2019 Nevada Independent paper. In an interview. "We were very immature to understand it, but he was a little dragged. I didn't know why. In fact, like a similar jaguar notebook. What you can see, in fact, the time is leaking, and we accept it.

Ocharagan, who lost his left foot from his knees during the Korean War and was awarded Purple Heart and Bronze Star as a brave player, was called the first giant who defeated small players. The lead reminiscent that Ocharigan, for example, crashed the baby on what he had actually fallen on the floor.

"After this, Ocalahan told me that he really thought he had killed him," says lead.

Ocalahan is a lon g-time House of Representatives Walter Barling, when Reed goes to Utah's university, Ocalahan has prepared a scholarship, and when the lead was studying laws in Washington and needed money, Ocalahan was a lon g-time House of Representatives Walter Barling in Nevada. In urgent asking for the work of the supporters, Reed returned to Nevada to take the quarterback test, and when the money was gone, Ocalahan had a $ 50 bill at the airport.

"Ocalahan has witnessed a $ 50 bill at the airport. I don't remember why, but he liked me every time, and of course I loved this guy. As time passed, his longing for him has grown, "said Reed. "He is the only real teacher for me. He was honest with me."

Reed graduated from Utah State University in 1961 and studied law at George Washington Research Institute. He worked as a night police officer at the Parliamentary Hall to pay a tuition and develop a young family. When he was working at Capitol Hill, the lead became close to Jim Bill Brey. He was also a student in the Faculty of Law in Nevada and worked as a police officer in captol. As a result, if Bill Brey is elected to the Senator, he will be the successor.

"He was a wonderful student," said Billbray in 2016 to Las Vegas Saint. "I don't know who worked as hard as Harry Reed." It's the same when he was in the Faculty of Law and now he became a member of the Diet.

Service to the state

After graduating from the law school, Reid returned to Henderson, where he worked as a city lawyer, supported the city's constitutional revision, and promoted expanding to the federal domain in the Tokyo metropolitan area.

In 1968, Reed, a member of the House of Representatives at the age of 28, proposed the first air pollution law and worked on the Consumer Protection Law. So he has nurtured a lon g-standing friendship with the former member of the House of Representatives and Governor Richard Brian. The two were members of the Diet and were called the "twins of yellow sand", and took the Nevada Quarter Back test together in 1963.

"In 2000, Reed was in a compliment to Brian, saying," In Nevada, at any level of the government, the two members of the election have not cooperated so closely. "60 people. In the legislative agency, we were the only newcomer of us.

In 1970, Reed was elected lieutenant governor of Nevada at the age of 31, making him the youngest lieutenant governor in Nevada along with O'Craghan, who was elected only by the governor.

However, Reed's political career was not all smooth sailing. For four years, Reed ran for the U. S. Senate, losing by 624 votes to former Governor Paul Laxalt. The following year, he ran for mayor of Las Vegas, losing by an even larger margin.

While still governor, O'Craghan offered Reed assistance. In 1977, O'Craghan called on Reed as chairman of the Nevada Gambling Commission to bring order to the gambling business, whose huge share was under the influence of the official criminal component.

In 1979, Reed famously clashed with official criminal accomplice Frank Levshoy Rosenthal, and disappeared from the Las Vegas news TV channels for a time. Reed also managed the Gambling Commission's vote to add mobster Tony Spiroto to the Nevada Exclusion List (commonly known as the "Black Book"). The job was a test of resistance and courage for Reed. In 1981, Landra Reed faced death when the mob tried to defame her home car.

"I still remember," he said in 2016. "Fire trucks came. Police cars came. I remember my 5-year-old son watching it from the window. It must have been a big shock to him.

Despite these risks and the investigation that revealed whether Reed was in the pocket of the mob, Reed remained at the helm of the Gambling Commission for five years. When he tried to ask O'Callaghan to resign, his mentor urged him not to.

"It wasn't easy. In fact, it was the hardest thing I've ever done in my own life. It wasn't easy. I came to O'Callaghan and said, 'Mike, I can't stand this. This is very hard on my family...'" "If you decide to throw this business away, this is the biggest mistake of your life. You will regret it for the rest of your life. I actually, for example, persevered," Reid said in an interview with The Independent in 2019.

Congressional work

In 1982, Reid arranged a second attempt to come to Congress, winning the race for the right to represent Nevada alone, which developed the actual 1st District of the Nevada Congress. He fought two deadlines and was later elected to the Senate in 1986.

One of the first legislative acts that Lid was performed at Adept is a taxpayer's rights bill that has established a provision to protect taxpayers from the NTA, and is a member of the Senator David Playal and Senator Chuck Glassley (Republican Party). It was passed with cooperation.

Reed, with its cautious behavior and sharp political intuition, assembled the government as a home to say in the Democratic faction in Congress. In 1998, when he r e-elected the third term in the Senate, his colleagues chose the lead for the assistant officers and whip seats, the Democratic Party's favorite.

In Congress, Reed has gained a reputation as a defender for Nevada's profits. For example, between the Democratic Party and the Republican Party in Japan, they often closed the two-party-the Alliance and filed an opposition with his own party. Lead, for example, cooperated with a lon g-standing Senator Din Heller (Republican Party), who made remarks against the reincarnation of Yucca Mountain and the protection of Lake Taho at the nuclear waste disposal site.

According to the lead, he did not intend to work in Congress to focus on the dilemma of environmental issues, such as water resources and public land, but as nearly 85 % as a dry state supporter belonging to the federal government. It became an important problem.

"I think Nevada is actually an affected labor," Lid said last year. "It was a while ago that climate change began to affect us, and I'm glad I actually paid attention and probably arranged everything to protect it."

Reed used the Space of the Diet Council to resolve the transaction with the territory in the state and to resolve a long dispute at the sea. He is a person who has created a law to protect millions of unbridled nature while allowed Las Vegas to grow and develop. The lead outlined personal adjustments to achieve consensus, but he was not afraid of claiming one point.

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Reed, with its cautious behavior and sharp political intuition, assembled the government as a home to say in the Democratic faction in Congress. In 1998, when he r e-elected the third term in the Senate, his colleagues chose the lead for the assistant officers and whip seats, the Democratic Party's favorite.

In Congress, Reed has gained a reputation as a defender for Nevada's profits. For example, between the Democratic Party and the Republican Party in Japan, they often closed the two-party-the Alliance and filed an opposition with his own party. Lead, for example, cooperated with a lon g-standing Senator Din Heller (Republican Party), who made remarks against the reincarnation of Yucca Mountain and the protection of Lake Taho at the nuclear waste disposal site.

According to the lead, he did not intend to work in Congress to focus on the dilemma of environmental issues, such as water resources and public land, but as nearly 85 % as a dry state supporter belonging to the federal government. It became an important problem.

"I think Nevada is actually an affected labor," Lid said last year. "It was a while ago that climate change began to affect us, and I'm glad I actually paid attention and probably arranged everything to protect it."

Reed used the Space of the Diet Council to resolve the transaction with the territory in the state and to resolve a long dispute at the sea. He is a person who has created a law to protect millions of unbridled nature while allowed Las Vegas to grow and develop. The lead outlined personal adjustments to achieve consensus, but he was not afraid of claiming one point.

Lead has adhered to the problem of establishing a reconciliation on Trekchi River, which brings more water from the pills of Lake Pyramid. One of the first legislative acts that Lid was performed at Adept is a taxpayer's rights bill that has established a provision to protect taxpayers from the NTA, and is a member of the Senator David Playal and Senator Chuck Glassley (Republican Party). It was passed with cooperation.

Reed, with its cautious behavior and sharp political intuition, assembled the government as a home to say in the Democratic faction in Congress. In 1998, when he r e-elected the third term in the Senate, his colleagues chose the lead for the assistant officers and whip seats, the Democratic Party's favorite.

In Congress, Reed has gained a reputation as a defender for Nevada's profits. For example, between the Democratic Party and the Republican Party in Japan, they often closed the two-party-the Alliance and filed an opposition with his own party. Lead, for example, cooperated with a lon g-standing Senator Din Heller (Republican Party), who made remarks against the reincarnation of Yucca Mountain and the protection of Lake Taho at the nuclear waste disposal site.

According to the lead, he did not intend to work in Congress to focus on the dilemma of environmental issues, such as water resources and public land, but as nearly 85 % as a dry state supporter belonging to the federal government. It became an important problem.

"I think Nevada is actually an affected labor," Lid said last year. "It was a while ago that climate change began to affect us, and I'm glad I actually paid attention and probably arranged everything to protect it."

Reed used the Space of the Diet Council to resolve the transaction with the territory in the state and to resolve a long dispute at the sea. He is a person who has created a law to protect millions of unbridled nature while allowed Las Vegas to grow and develop. The lead outlined personal adjustments to achieve consensus, but he was not afraid of claiming one point.

Lead has adhered to the problem of establishing a reconciliation on Trekchi River, which brings more water from the pills of Lake Pyramid.

When he was young, he liked visiting information providers in the district, and a few years later, he learned that they were actually abandoned, and began to be angry and defend nature. As a member of the House of Representatives, he created and passed a bill in 1986 to establish a Great Basin State Park, the first state park in Nevada. As a result of this visit, the Lake Taho Summit was held every day, and members of each party, which were connected with a common goal of protecting Lake Taho, gathered.

That effort was far beyond the legal frame. As the first of his last job, Lid played an important role in ensuring President Barak Obama to announce a gold bat near the state monument.

The lead achieved the federal purification of the dirty copper mine "Anaconda" and wrote reports and interviews. Reed, who felt the need for urgent measures regarding climate change and the possibility of solar power in Nevada, also gave his personal opinion on how Nevada was. The lead has realized the rapid closure of the power plant Red Gardner, which was built near the Moap Payuts residence. He argued that he was an unusual proposal to build four coal power plants in the Eli district, calling on a funded company directly and giving up the plan.

"I did what I didn't do," he said in 2019. He declared, "I called the top of the hedge fund. I am not thinking about how to revenge. But I want you to remember my sentence. But I want you to remember my text. You refuse to trade in the factory construction. I forced me to observe everything I did, for example, I refused.

Lida's position was also disappointed with ecologists. His transactions with his territory contributed to an increase in settlements and actively supported proposals to transport water from Nevada's rural areas to the center of the state. In 2003, the Los Angeles Times publications were a family of how the lead gained from some of these bills-other public impacts for the special interests of the whole state. A memo that was given from.

In 2006, Red received $ 1. 1 million from Las Vegas's territory transactions, and still burned, but he argued against the law.

Lead defended the mining industry and protected the Necessary Reform Law in 1872, when the Democratic Party and Environmental Protection Organization tried to reform for decades. The law did not impose sufficient restrictions on the collection of fossils required in the federal government in local governments, or collect usage fees.

Senator Harry Reed in an interview at the State Clean Energy Summit held at the Bellagio Hotel on October 13, 2017 (Friday). (Jeff Scheid/The Nevada Independent)

Senate leadership

Eventually, the lead began to gain strength in Washington, became a Democratic Party's favorite in 2005, and played an important role in enacting historic law for over 10 years.

In particular, the lead played an important role in the establishment of the "Affordable Health Care Act".

I called the president many times and said, "President, I have no votes, this cannot be achieved." And the President basically said that this must be made, this is more important than my r e-election. As a result, I returned and tried again. But that wasn't easy, "said Lead at the Indytalks event in 2020.

The lead finally persuaded Senator Ben Nelson (Democratic Party, North Carolina), and many other passive members of the Senator persuaded the bill with exceptions from the state. The 60 votes needed to establish the Healthcare Law have been secured.

Legal is a compromise art, and sometimes people forgot it, "says lead.

For the lead who grew up with little medical care, his health management was his own job. For example, when his brother broke his legs during cycling, they did not go to the doctor. When the founder had to pull out his teeth, he arranged himself. In high school, Reed worked at a gas station for a long time to save $ 250, and when he was beaten by a ball in his childhood, he bought a denture in exchange for his mother's teeth.

The 3 2-yea r-old lead suffered from depression and eventually covered the shadow of the founder who committed suicide.

"As you know about my founder, how important medical support was for him, and how much the ability to meet him more to himself so that he can understand himself. Read said in a goodbye speech in 2016.

During the great recession, Reed, who cooperated with the Republican president as a majority leader of the Senate, worked hard to make a bill to stabilize the real estate market, supporting the housing owner facing the foreclosure. There is no doubt that it has contributed to the establishment of a economic stimulus, which invests hundreds of billions of dollars in the South American economy.

Reed gained a reputation as an immigrant and Latino advocate during his 2010 campaign, when he decided to bring the Dream Act, a bill that would allow young immigrants to claim legal status, to a vote in the Senate. His opponent, Sharon Engle, ran an ad calling him "the best friend of illegal immigrants." Latinos came out in droves to support Reed, and he won reelection with the help of the Culinary Union.

"That election showed us that Latinos can make a difference. I couldn't have won this election if Latinos hadn't voted for me. And that made people realize that we need to bring more Latinos in and make them part of the process," Reed said in 2020.

He also worked with Sens. Max Baucus (D-Tennessee) and Ron Euyden (D-Oregon) to fully fund a program known as payments in lieu of taxes (PILOT), in which local governments pay to offset property losses caused by untaxed federal lands, which is important in rural areas of the country, including Nevada.

Reid often believed that the ends justified the means. For example, Reid saved the $9 billion City Center project when MGM Mirage (now MGM Resorts International), a 50% partner in the project, was struggling financially and on the brink of bankruptcy. Reid himself called the banks directly, which some said was an abuse of power.

Jim Marlen, former MGM general manager, said in a 2009 interview that he had urged Nevada's congressional delegation, especially Reid, to call banks and lending institutions to find the last billion or two needed to prevent the project from closing.

"Nobody has more weight than Harry Reid in terms of access to the biggest people who should know what happened. I asked him for help. I spent a lot of time on the phone with Senator Reid during the crisis.

"Nobody in their right mind would have done what I did," Reid said in a 2019 interview with the Independent. Nobody would have done that. I've had a long-standing crush on [the late founder of MGM Resorts] Kirk Kerkorian. So this happened because I had a lot of respect for him. But what I did was I called the president of the bank and threatened him in every way possible. I called the ruler of Dubai or whatever.

But the lead added, "I personally believe in what I am doing," added.

Lead also kept a relationship with many influential people in Las Vegas. He met Carcorian as an agent lawyer of a businessman's younger brother in the 1960s to the 1970s, and continued his close relationship with developers who were deeply involved in the construction of the largest real estate in Las Vegas Strip.

In June 2015, when Carcorian died at the age of 98, Reed testified his friends in the Senate's parliament, calling that "one of the special things in my life."

Lead and his late Sheldon Aderson were well known that Las Vegas Sands's founder, Adelson, was a republic and conservative support, but he respected each other.

In an interview in 2015 after the Aderson clan acquired the Las Vegas Review-Journal, Lead called Aderson as a "good person".

Sheldon Aderson has been a long relationship. He also knows the Democratic era. He has a good relationship with him. "

Politics and transactions

The lead Macabelism was noticeable in the Senate testimony when the Republican President Mitt Romnny had not paid taxes for 10 years.

"If you think about it now, you could be more different? That may be, but I thought what I did at the time was right, and I didn't feel guilty when I looked back." He spoke at an Indy Fest event.

He also appointed the Republican Party Brian Sandbal in 2004 to eliminate political threats. And in order to avoid the possibility that Sandabal will challenge the U. S. -House of Representatives in 2016, lead supports the candidate for Lucy Flores in the 2014 deputy governor as a political blocker, and prevents the Sandabal separation in the midterm election. did.

It is wel l-known that Republican Senator Jim Jefford has changed the party and abandoned the President to entrust the Democratic Party to entrust the Senate's right. But for that, he was polarized. < SPAN> However, the lead added that he decided to do so personal belief in what he was doing.

Lead also kept a relationship with many influential people in Las Vegas. He met Carcorian as an agent lawyer of a businessman's younger brother in the 1960s to the 1970s, and continued his close relationship with developers who were deeply involved in the construction of the largest real estate in Las Vegas Strip.

In June 2015, when Carcorian died at the age of 98, Reed testified his friends in the Senate's parliament, calling that "one of the special things in my life."

Lead and his late Sheldon Aderson were well known that Las Vegas Sands's founder, Adelson, was a republic and conservative support, but he respected each other.

In an interview in 2015 after the Aderson clan acquired the Las Vegas Review-Journal, Lead called Aderson as a "good person".

Sheldon Aderson has been a long relationship. He also knows the Democratic era. He has a good relationship with him. "

Politics and transactions

The lead Macabelism was noticeable in the Senate testimony when the Republican President Mitt Romnny had not paid taxes for 10 years.

"If you think about it now, you could be more different? That may be, but I thought what I did at the time was right, and I didn't feel guilty when I looked back." He spoke at an Indy Fest event.

He also appointed the Republican Party Brian Sandbal in 2004 to eliminate political threats. And in order to avoid the possibility that Sandabal will challenge the U. S. -House of Representatives in 2016, lead supports the candidate for Lucy Flores in the 2014 deputy governor as a political blocker, and prevents the Sandabal separation in the midterm election. did.

It is wel l-known that Republican Senator Jim Jefford has changed the party and abandoned the President to entrust the Democratic Party to entrust the Senate's right. But for that, he was polarized. But the lead added, "I personally believe in what I am doing," added.

Lead also kept a relationship with many influential people in Las Vegas. He met Carcorian as an agent lawyer of a businessman's younger brother in the 1960s to the 1970s, and continued his close relationship with developers who were deeply involved in the construction of the largest real estate in Las Vegas Strip.