Didn’t Bill Clinton appoint one of the Hormel heirs to some minor ambassodorship?
IIRC, he was quite the po(r)ker!
Sneak Attack.(James Hormel - first openly gay diplomat)
Newsweek International, June, 1999
Bill Clinton last week made use of a rarely employed executive privilege to appoint the nation's first openly gay diplomat. Conservative Republicans in the Senate had stood in the way of James Hormel's nomination as ambassador to Luxembourg since 1997. But Clinton skirted them by naming Hormel while Congress was on vacation. ...
Yeah, some gay Hormel dude.