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    Biden, Obama among those to eulogize Senate titan Harry Reid at memorial service

    by Becky Sullivan Jan 08, 2022 3 minutes
    Then-Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, pictured in 2011.

    In eulogy after eulogy at his memorial service Saturday, Harry Reid was remembered as a consummate politician, a loving husband and father — and perhaps more than anything else, a man who rarely said goodbye before hanging up the phone.

    The nation's foremost Democratic politicians, among them President Biden and former president Barack Obama, gathered in Las Vegas to memorialize Reid, the former Senate Majority Leader and titan of Democratic politics who died last month at the age of 82 after a life that brought him from a tiny town

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