（美国有线电视新闻网）根据他的妻子兰德拉·里德 (Landra Reid) 的一份声明，哈里·里德 (Harry Reid) 是一位斗志昂扬的前民主党参议院领袖，他在国会 30 年间领导了史诗般的立法斗争，享年 82 岁。
她在周二的一份声明中说：“我很伤心地宣布我的丈夫，前参议院多数党领袖哈里·里德 (Harry Reid) 过世了。在与胰腺癌进行了为期四年的勇敢斗争之后，他今天下午在我们家人的陪伴下平静地去世了。”
里德在内华达州探照灯镇出身卑微，成为内华达州历史上最有权势的政治家，结束了他作为参议院民主党领袖的政治生涯，其中包括八年的多数席位。
曾在参议院与里德一起任职的总统乔拜登在周二的一份声明中称他为“我们历史上最伟大的参议院多数党领袖”之一。
“他是我的领袖，我的导师，我最亲密的朋友之一，”纽约民主党参议院多数党领袖查克舒默周二晚间在一份声明中说。 “他走了，但他每天都会走在我们参议院许多人的身边。”
前总统巴拉克奥巴马发布了他在去世前写给里德的一封信，以代替一份声明。奥巴马写道：“如果没有你的鼓励和支持，我就不会成为总统，如果没有你的技能和决心，我也不会完成我所做的大部分工作。”
里德在 2018 年接受了胰腺癌手术，不到一年后他说他病情好转。当时，他告诉 CNN 的 Dana Bash，他感觉“非常好”，而且“做得很好”。但里德以他一贯的直率回应了他的癌症诊断，他在 2019 年告诉纽约时报：“一旦你发现你的胰腺上有东西，你就死了。”
Harry Reid, a longtime US senator from Nevada and former Democratic leader, dies at 82
(CNN)Harry Reid, the scrappy former Democratic Senate leader who spearheaded epic legislative battles through three decades in Congress, has died at the age of 82, according to a statement from his wife, Landra Reid.
"I am heartbroken to announce the passing of my husband, former Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid. He died peacefully this afternoon, surrounded by our family, following a courageous, four-year battle with pancreatic cancer," she said in a statement Tuesday.
Reid rose from humble beginnings in Searchlight, Nevada, to become the most powerful politician in Nevada history, capping off his political career as the Democratic leader in the Senate, including eight years in the majority.
President Joe Biden, who served with Reid in the Senate, called him one of "the all-time great Senate Majority Leaders in our history" in a statement Tuesday.
"He was my leader, my mentor, one of my dearest friends," Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, a New York Democrat, said in a statement Tuesday evening. "He's gone but he will walk by the sides of many of us in the Senate every single day."
Former President Barack Obama released a letter he had written to Reid before his death in lieu of a statement. "I wouldn't have been president had it not been for your encouragement and support, and I wouldn't have got most of what I got done without your skill and determination," Obama wrote.
Reid underwent surgery for pancreatic cancer in 2018 and said less than a year later that he was in remission. At the time, he told CNN's Dana Bash that he felt "very good" and that he was "doing fine." But Reid responded to his cancer diagnosis with his usual bluntness, telling The New York Times in 2019: "As soon as you discover you have something on your pancreas, you're dead."
