Also in the network is U.S. Sen. Jack Reed, who has known Fogarty for years and says he recognized in him early on a gravitas and zest for work. But Reed points especially to a moment in September 2001 when he came to appreciate his capacity for leadership. Days after 9/11, the lieutenant governor was in the forefront of organizing a vigil that attracted to the State House grounds a crowd police estimated at more than 20,000. Reed says the message the evening conveyed was: This has been a bad blow but we’re stronger and better and we’re going to prevail. “It was a very sober moment,” Reed says, “but it was not without a sense of hope and determination.
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