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NICKAGRO—THEORANGECOUNTYREGISTER—SCNGVIAAP Actress Florence Henderson spoke during the Alzheimer's Association, Orange County's 9th annual Visionary Women Luncheon at Rancho Las Lomas in Silverado. ByLynnElber TheAssociatedPress LOS ANGELES Florence Henderson, who went from Broadway star to become one of America's most be- loved television moms in "The Brady Bunch," has died. She was 82. HendersondiedatCedars- Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles on Thursday night, a day after she was hospital- ized, said her publicist, Da- vid Brokaw. Henderson had suffered heart failure, her manager Kayla Pressman said in a statement. Family and friends had surrounded Henderson's hospital bedside, Press- man said. On the surface, "The Brady Bunch" with Hender- son as its ever-cheerful ma- triarch Carol Brady resem- bled just another TV sitcom about a family living in sub- urban America and getting into a different wacky situ- ation each week. But well after it ended its initial run in 1974, the show resonated with audiences, and it returned to televi- sion in various forms again and again, including "The Brady Bunch Hour" in 1977, "The Brady Brides" in 1981 and "The Bradys" in 1990. It was also seen endlessly in reruns. "It represents what peo- ple always wanted: a loving family. It's such a gentle, in- nocent, sweet show, and I guess it proved there's al- ways an audience for that," Henderson said in 1999. Premiering in 1969, it also was among the first shows to introduce to tele- vision the blended family. As its theme song reminded viewers each week, Hen- derson's Carol was a sin- gle mother raising three daughters when she met her TV husband, Robert Reed's Mike Brady, a single father who was raising three boys. The eight of them be- came "The Brady Bunch," with a quirky housekeeper, played by Ann B. Davis, thrown into the mix. Mourners flooded social media with memories of Henderson. The blond, ever-smiling Henderson was already a Broadway star when the show began, having orig- inated the title role in the musical "Fanny." But af- ter "The Brady Bunch," she would always be known to fans as Carol Brady. "We had to have secu- rity guards with us. Fans were hanging on our doors. We couldn't go out by our- selves." ActressFlorence Henderson dies at 82 OBITUARY By Steve Peoples The Associated Press PALM BEACH, FLA. Presi- dent-elect Donald Trump pressed forward Friday with two more administra- tion picks, as failed Green Party candidate Jill Stein took new steps to force recounts across key Mid- western battlegrounds that could complicate Trump's push for national unity. Stein, who earned lit- tle more than 1 percent of the national vote, for- mally requested a Wis- consin recount Friday af- ternoon, vowing to do the same in the coming days in Michigan and Penn- sylvania. There is no evi- dence of election tamper- ing in the states where Trump scored razor-thin victories, but Green Party spokesman George Mar- tin insisted "the Ameri- can public needs to have it investigated to make sure our votes count." "We're doing this to en- sure the integrity of our system," he said. Trump's team ignored questions about the loom- ing recounts. Set to assume the presidency in 55 days, he was focused instead on the daunting task of build- ing an administration from scratch. Gathered with family at his Mar-a-Lago Palm Beach estate for the holiday week- end, the incoming presi- dent made two senior-level staff appointments and scheduled meetings with several more prospective administration officials. He tapped Fox News an- alyst Kathleen Troia "KT" McFarland to serve as dep- uty national security ad- viser and campaign attor- ney Donald McGahn as White House counsel. In a statement, Trump cited McFarland's "tremendous experience and innate tal- ent" and said McGhan "has a brilliant legal mind, ex- cellent character and a deep understanding of con- stitutional law." Having faced criticism about the inexperience of his initial picks, Trump finds in McFarland some- one who previously worked under three presidents, al- though none since Ronald Reagan. McGhan, a veteran Republican election lawyer, served as Trump's attorney during the campaign. Neither position requires Senate confirmation. Trump transition spokesman Sean Spicer said the president-elect scheduled Monday meet- ings with eight more pro- spective administration hires, a group that includes several business leaders, Pennsylvania Rep. Lou Bar- letta, and David Clarke, the Wisconsin sheriff who is an aggressive opponent of the Black Lives Matter move- ment. Facing external pres- sure from Stein, there were also signs of internal dis- cord within the president- elect's small inner circle as Trump weighed his choices for secretary of state. The options for the na- tion's chief diplomat in- clude former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani, who lacks foreign policy expe- rience but was intensely loyal to Trump, and 2012 Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney, who aggressively opposed Trump's candidacy but is largely regarded as more qualified. Trump spokeswoman Kellyanne Conway took the unusual step of shin- ing light on the contro- versy over the Thanksgiv- ing holiday, tweeting that she had been "receiving a deluge of social media & private concerns re: Rom- ney Some Trump loyalists warn against Romney as sec of state." Meanwhile, Stein an- nounced on her website she has raised enough money to fund recounts in Wisconsin and Pennsylva- nia and was pursuing ad- ditional funding to do the same in Michigan. Trump's Nov. 8 victory was unexpected and his- toric, by some measures. Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton leads the national popular vote by close to 2 million votes. Trump scored narrow vic- tories in key battleground states, however, giving him the necessary 270 electoral votes to assume the presi- dency. He won in Pennsylva- nia. He won in Wiscon- sin, breaking a Demo- cratic winning streak dat- ing back 32 years. He holds a slim lead in Michigan, where a Republican pres- idential candidate hadn't won since 1988; The Asso- ciated Press still hasn't offi- cially called that race. TRANSITION With recounts looming, Trump adds new administration picks CAROLYN KASTER — THE ASSOCIATED PRESS FILE President-elect Donald Trump gives the thumbs-up as he arrives at the Trump National Golf Club Bedminster clubhouse in Bedminster, N.J. SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 2016 REDBLUFFDAILYNEWS.COM | NEWS | 3 B