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...NOMINEE] JAMES HORMEL...
...JAMES HORMEL First openly gay ambassador. It's just Luxembourg--not that there's anything wrong with that...
...Number of officials President Clinton has appointed during a recess without Senate approval, including Ambassador James Hormel...
Having made his point and rewarded his contributor, Bill Clinton is no longer in a fighting mood. The President blinked Wednesday in his staredown with Sen. James Inhofe over gay ambassador James Hormel, promising to notify the Senate of any appointments he plans to make while they?re out of town. It was a courtesy Clinton had observed until the Hormel decision, when, with Senate leaders holding the nomination hostage to the wishes of their conservative wing, it must have seemed pointless. Backing down now, however, is not so pointless -- not when Richard Holbrooke is finally headed for the Senate...
...Holbrooke, nominated to Madeleine Albright?s old post of U.N. ambassador exactly one year ago, is safely heterosexual and perhaps the sharpest knife in the U.S. diplomatic drawer. But he faces a roadblock of his own in one of (coincidentally?) Hormel?s fiercest enemies, nomination-killer Jesse Helms. In 1997, Helms snuffed out former Massachusetts governor William Weld?s Mexico ambassadorship because Weld hailed from the GOP?s moderate wing, and Helms doesn?t like his kind. In Holbrooke?s case, it?s just another swipe at Clinton, though the official reason is "ethical baggage." Never mind that Holbrooke...