It is so much more than another “first,” Pete Buttigieg nominated as Transportation secretary, the first openly gay person to be named to a Cabinet post requiring Senate confirmation.
Far better to think of his nomination as a culmination of a terrible history played out over decades at the very door of the Cabinet Room itself.
LGBT Americans have been ruined and fired there. Gay Americans have entered there with their darkest secret of homosexuality.
We have met there many times as some of the most powerful staff in the world, think of LBJ’s right-hand, the troubled Walter Jenkins.