U.S. and Nevada leaders are mourning former Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, who died Tuesday at 82. Landra Reid says her husband died peacefully after a four-year battle with pancreatic cancer. Reid, a Democrat, led the Senate under under two presidents, Republican George W. Bush and Democrat Barack Obama . He retired in 2016.

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Harry Reid and I grew up on different sides of the country, but we came from the same place where certain values run deep. Loyalty. Faith. Resolve. Service. During the two decades we served together in the United States Senate, and the eight years we worked together while I served as Vice President, Harry met the marker for what Ive always believed is the most important thing by which you can measure a person their action and their word. If Harry said he would do something, he did it. If he gave you his word, you could bank on it. Thats how he got things done for the good of the country for decades. ... May God bless Harry Reid, a dear friend and a giant of our history. President Joe Biden .

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You were a great leader in the Senate, and early on you were more generous to me than I had any right to expect. ... As different as we are, I think we both saw something of ourselves in each other a couple of outsiders who had defied the odds and knew how to take a punch and cared about the little guy. ... The world is better cause of what youve done. former President Barack Obama, in a letter he said he sent Reid before his death.

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He was tough-as-nails strong, but caring and compassionate, and always went out of his way quietly to help people who needed help. He was a boxer who came from humble origins, but he never forgot where he came from and used those boxing instincts to fearlessly fight those who were hurting the poor and the middle class. ... Hes gone but he will walk by the sides of many of us in the Senate every single day. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y.

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