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Tom Vilsack tackles new priorities at U.S. Department of Agriculture
Vilsack returns to a department and an industry in the midst of a pandemic, in the process of recovering from a series of trade skirmishes, and in the grips of lingering questions about long-standing inequalities to a select group of producers. 5:30 am, Mar. 14, 2021 ×
Tom Vilsack (Photo by Adam Schultz / Biden for President)
Ag Secretary Tom Vilsack is probably the most experienced person to ever be one week into the top job at the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
However, things have changed so much since January 2017 when he left USDA headquarters for the last time as secretary that it might as well be a different universe, much less a different administration.
Itâs easy to become jaded about commemorative watches. So many of them are just cynical marketing moves â attempts to leech the interest and storytelling surrounding a person or event or institution and convert it into sales figures. Often these timepieces âcelebrateâ something that is hardly in need of additional celebration and, less forgivably, donât support its cause or culture in any meaningful way.
When you encounter a commemorative watch that isnât guilty of those things, however â one that actually reads as authentic â it can be seriously compelling. So it is with the Oris Carl Brashear Cal 401 Limited Edition. Born to Kentucky sharecroppers in 1931, Brashear faced down racism to graduate from the US Navy Diving & Salvage School in 1954 as its first ever African-American diver. But prejudice wasnât the only challenge he had to contend with. In 1966, Brashear was involved in an effort to recover a lost American nuclear warhead that