Word: gorelick
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Department of Defense Jamie S. Gorelick '72, a Law School Graduate, has been nominated to replace Heymann...
With studied dramatics, Nunn posed several possible statements to Defense Department general counsel Jamie Gorelick. "I am a homosexual," he read from his paper. "Yes," answered Gorelick, that would trigger the presumption. "I am a lesbian," Nunn intoned. "Yes." "I am bisexual," said Nunn, who once fired two staff members for being gay, claiming they were security risks. "Yes." Finally, Nunn sprung one Gorelick hadn't expected. "I have a homosexual orientation," he said. Gorelick hesitated. Homosexual "orientation" was exactly what the new regulations tolerated in a military man or woman; admitting to it, however, was not. Yes, she agreed...
...added to the policy in order to claim an "honorable compromise." As irritated as Nunn might be at Clinton's admittedly tortured distinctions between gay "orientation" (to be tolerated) and gay "conduct" (grounds for dismissal), the betting was that he would merely badger Defense Secretary Les Aspin and Gorelick into effectively admitting that it and other pesky wordings were indeed fairly meaningless, and eventually give the package his blessing...