intro of what makes him such a fascinating figure. one who doesn t lend himself to the social media clips of today, and you re already seeing the pro and the con. he was a very contradictory man. he was ruthless as any person i ever covered, and yet also there are so many stories of private kind gestures to people high and low of harry reid. i mean, all of the lore that you hear about harry reid, the son of a hard rock minor who grew up in abject poverty, who lost one senate race, then ran for mayor of las vegas and got crushed and should ve disappeared from the political firmament resurrected by a governor, was the gaming regulatory chief, and, by the way, there is so much about his time there that is not known, including the story that you
in abject poverty, who lost one senate race, then ran for mayor of las vegas and got crushed and should ve disappeared from the political firmament resurrected by a governor, was the gaming regulatory chief, and, by the way, there is so much about his time there that is not known, including the story that you told about jack gordon and reid wanting to strangle him after the bribe attempt. there s a lot more to that, too. he is just one of those politicians who doesn t fit into some easy description on twitter or facebook. and there are so many stories that i know and have been told since i began to research this book. he truly is one of a kind, was one of a kind. yeah, and i want to speak to you a little bit about his legacy and how he changed our national politics, for good or for bad. but i do just want to go back to
who grew up in abject poverty. then, ran for mayor of las vegas and got crushed and should have disappeared from the political fevment. was the gaming regulatory chief and by the way, there was so much about his time there that is not known, including the story that you told about jack gordon and reid wanting to strangle him after the bribe attempt. there is a lot more to that, too. he is just one of those politicians who doesn t fit into some easy description on twitter or facebook and there are so many stories that i know and have been told since i began to research this this book. he truly is one of a kind was one of a kind. yeah. and i want to speak to you a little bit about his legacy, and how he changed our national politics for good or for bad but i do want to just go back to
0 thank you all. that was great. appreciate it. all right, that is allen in on this tuesday night. condolences of course to harry reid s good evening, ayman. good evening. rachel has the night off and we start tonight with that very important breaking news. one of the things that was almost most surprising about the former senate majority leader harry reid was just how quiet he was. in fact, during interviews, it was not uncommon to be almost unable to hear him. that s how soft-spoken he actually was. but there was another side to harry reid in all of this. in fact, in the late 1970s, harry reid was the chair of the nevada gaming commission, overseeing the state s very important casinos. this is the story of a man who tried to bribe him from a new yorker profile back in 2005. in part, it reads, in july of 1978, a man named jack gordon, who was later married to latoya jackson, offered reid $12,000 to approve two new gaming devices for casino use. reid reported the attempted brib