Note: Months before Herman Cain’s surprise win in the Florida Republican straw poll, The Washington Examiner’s Byron York visited the Georgia businessman at his offices near Atlanta. For many, this article was a first introduction to the man who would go on to shake up the Republican presidential race. Here is the story, from May 15, 2011:
STOCKBRIDGE, Ga. – Herman Cain’s handsome glass-walled office overlooks the first fairway of the Eagle’s Landing Country Club in this exurb of Atlanta, about 20 miles south of Hartsfield Airport. It is here that the 65-year-old Cain planned to spend what he calls his “cruise control” years — time spent not exactly in retirement, but at an easier pace than a business career that included stints as CEO of Godfather’s Pizza, president of the National Restaurant Association, and chairman of the Kansas City Federal Reserve Bank.
