Harry Reid and Bananas

Two stories about my first boss

Matt Higginson
3 min readDec 29, 2021

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My last week in the Senate

The two most well-documented idiosyncrasies of Senator Harry Reid were his shockingly dry sense of humor, and his abrupt endings to every phone call he’s ever been on. The stories from Reid World are legion. I’ll share just two.

One day in 2005, a fruit basket was delivered to his office in the US Capitol. I love fruit and the bananas in this…

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