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janssen wrote this week, that missed something that he also wasn't afraid to take a punch. to know harry reid was to spend time with him in the truck stop town of searchlight, nevada. he grew up in a town with no running water. >> the man that he worked for wouldn't pay him or give him bad checks that would bounce. >> reporter: he spoke candidly about painful memories. >> my parents both drank a lot and i was always so glad when they were broke because they couldn't afford stuff now. >> reporter: that was december 2006, right before he was first sworn in as senate majority leader. his complex personality fully on display, as square-looking lie listening to hip songs on his ipod. >> cowboy junkies? >> you know them? >> i do. >> reporter: he's a walking contradiction. much has bin written about his
town of searchlight, nevada, where he grew up in a town with no running water. >> the man that he worked for wouldn't pay him or give him bad checks that would bounce. >> reporter: he spoke candidly about painful memories. >> my parents both drank a lot, and i was always so glad when they were broke because they couldn't afford stuff then. >> reporter: that was december 2006, right before he was first sworn in as senate majority leader. his complex personality fully on display, as square-looking lie listening to hip songs on his ipod. >> cowboy junkies? >> you know them? >> i do. >> reporter: self-aware and eager to surprise people. >> he's a walking contradiction. >> reporter: much has been written about his contradiction to the demise of his political discourse. >> you called them an anarchists. >> that's what they are, anarchists. >> reporter: he was never afraid