View this link:

http://aspen.conncoll.edu/politicsandculture/page.cfm?key=708

As the USA’s first Secretary of Culture. I think I recall this happening before. See here:

Zizek was asked to consider becoming a [Slovenian] government minister in the mid-nineties, and declined. “The Prime Minister said, ‘Do you want Science? Culture?’ I told him, ‘Are you crazy? Who wants that crap? I am only interested in two posts - either Minister of the Interior or the head of the Secret Police.’” He was, however, made a kind of cultural ambassador for Slovenia, and was granted a diplomatic passport. He has since relinquished it. “I thought it would make it easier to travel, but it was the opposite,” he says. “I would try to go through with the diplomatic passport, and the immigration officials would look at me and think, What kind of diplomat is this guy? So it would take twice as long.”

Via 3QD.