bathroom, and we were right on top of each other, and he lowered his voice. and he said, chuck, i want to take care of something very important, he said, and he pulled out a wad of cash from his pocket. he peeled out four $100. you have been working hard and doing the right things to become leader, but you need to dress the part, go buy some better shoes for goodness sakes. later on i asked him why he pulled me into the bathroom for that conversation. his answer, so he would not embarrass me in front of landra and that is harry reid to a tee. if you were lucky enough to be someone that harry cared about and called your friend and he cared with every fiber of his being, and the generosity went beyond everything sartorial, and he called up my wife, and he
mind. and is that landra? yes. and his partner is 60-plus years, and something that must be noted as well. i am so glad that you said that, because what a love story. senator reid had a love of the senate, but the first love was the family, and it all started with his wife landr, and i mentioned that they met as teenagers, and he hitchhiked to go to high school. and she was a teenaged jewish woman i am going to cut you off as they begin the inshowication, and we will listen together. he was tireless spirit that sparred this nation, thank you. that this journey from
and had broken so many bones. he said over and over again as tears streamed down his cheeks, my poor little landra, my poor little landra and a few months ago i lost my father abe, but i feel his spirit with me every single day, and just as i mow that harry is with you, landra and your family and with all of us today and for many of us forever more. to celebrate harry under the dome is a few contradictions. to anybody who knew harry could count on a few things. he never said good-bye on the phone, and it was that each freshman would call me up and say, why is harry mad at me. no, no, no i did not have to tell them, and no, he did not
tiers streamed down his cheeks, my poor little landra, my poor little landra. the couple months ago i lost my father, abe. but i still feel his spirit is with me every single day. just as i know that harry is still with you, landra, and your family, and with all of us today and for many of us forever more. to celebrate the life of harry reid under the dome of the capitol is to partake in an exercise of contradictions. on the one hand, anyone who knew harry could count on a few things. he rarely said good-bye on the phone. and it almost became a ritual in the first three months of any new session that each freshman would call me up and say why is harry mad at me? i said no, no, i didn t even have to they didn t have to explain why. he doesn t say good-bye, just hung up. he s not mad at you. and certainly harry would have
pray. amen. ladies and gentlemen, please take your seats. ladies and gentlemen, the honorable charles e. schumer, the leader of the united states senate. thank you. it is such a honor to speak about my mentor henry reid of searchlight, nevada, as he would proudly say of himself. first let me say to his family and particularly to landra, the love of harry s life of 62 years who he called his rock. the only time i ever saw harry cry is when he told me that landra had an awful car accident