said in that clip, he wasn t slick. he wasn t always the greatest elocutionist on the floor. what made him so effective, as jon was rightly noting? and i think there were two major ones. one was this ability to cultivate respect and trust of others. he did so with kind of understanding what made them tick, getting to know them as human beings, giving them space to have leadership or roles and responsibiliies unto their own sels. he did that with staff. he did that with caucus leaders. they all trusted that harry reid was going to make a judgment and they were going to follow it because of a deep sense of selflessness, that harry reid wasn t doing it for himself, he was doing it far all of us, that he wanted us all to win. in addition to this cultivating of team reid philosophy, or just a loyalty and a trust, i think he had this deep sense of, you
talk about that. what was it about harry reid, about majority leader reid that engendered that loyalty? you know, as president obama said in that clip, he wasn t slick. he wasn t always the greatest elocutionist on the floor. what made him so effective, as jon was rightly noting? and i think there were two major ones. one was this ability to cultivate respect and trust of others. he did so with kind of understanding what made them tick, getting to know them as human beings, giving them space to have leadership or roles and responsibilities unto their own selves. he did that with staff. he did that with caucus leaders. they all trusted that harry reid was going to make a judgment and they were going to follow it because of a deep sense of selflessness, that harry reid wasn t doing it for himself, he was doing it far all of us, that