"But the summer after his brother Dale had graduated from high school, he invited young Harry to join him in Ash Fork, a tiny dot in Arizona along Highway 40. Dale had found work at a gas station in the railroad town near an Indian reservation. Not much was memorable about the town, the railroad, or the people Harry met, but he never forgot one lesson he learned there."
"Reid could easily outplay him but invariably lost anyway. "I never won a game," he wrote decades later, "because as we got into the games, he would keep changing the rules." He resolved never to do the same himself. He would try to understand the rules and stick to them. "That is what I think life is all about," he explained. "Don't change the rules during the game.""
Harry Reid learned a childhood lesson in Ash Fork, Arizona: a playmate repeatedly changed game rules, leading Reid to vow never to do the same. He committed to understanding rules and sticking to them as a guiding principle. That conviction persisted for more than fifty years and influenced his conduct in public life. By the end of 2012 Reid, as Senate majority leader, grew frustrated by frequent filibusters of President Obama's judicial nominees. Less than a decade earlier he had defended the filibuster while Democrats blocked Republican appellate nominees, prompting Republican consideration of the nuclear option.
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