WASHINGTON (AP) — President-elect Donald Trump plans to add another wealthy business person and elite donor to his Cabinet, saying he would nominate fast-food executive Andrew Puzder as labor secretary.
Puzder heads CKE Restaurants Holdings, the parent company of Carl's Jr., Hardee's and other chains. In 2010, he published a book called "Job Creation: How it Really Works and Why Government Doesn't Understand It."
A little more than fifty years ago an ambitious twelve year old boy, Morrill Worcester, won a trip to Washington D.C by selling the most editions of his hometown paper, The Bangor Daily News. While visiting Arlington National Cemetery the paper-router was instilled with respect for National service and sacrifice.
Three decades after that inspirational trip the Down-East'r seized an opportunity in 1992 to honor Veterans when his Worcester Wreath Company of Harrington, Maine had an unexpected surplus of 5,000 fresh balsam wreaths. In the spirit of Christmas Morrill with help from local truckers, and volunteers from the VFW and American Legion coordinated an effort with Members of the Maine State Society of Washington, D.C. to ship those heavenly scented, red-bowed remembrances to Arlington National Cemetery.
