In photos: Biden, Obama and senior Dems remember 'deeply good' Harry Reid
The Smith Center for the Performing Arts in Las Vegas hosts the memorial service for the late Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid on Jan. 8. Photo: Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images
"For Harry, it wasn't about power, it was about about the sake of power, about the power to be able to use power to do right by people," he added. "That's why you wanted Harry in your corner."Obama said: "Few people have done more for this state, and this country, than this driven, brilliant, sometimes irascible, deeply good man from Searchlight, Nevada."
"Harry did know the Senate better than just about anyone else. More importantly, he understood why the work we were doing mattered," the former president said.Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi also spoke at the funeral.
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