Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack is within two weeks of serving longer in that position than Dan Glickman under President Clinton.

“In about 15 days he will beat my record, because I was in office about 5 years and 11 months,” said Glickman during his introduction of Vilsack at a Chicago Council on Global Affairs event on Monday. “He’s doing this to spite me.”

The last secretary of agriculture to serve two entire terms under the same president was Ezra Taft Benson under Eisenhower. Orville Freedman served two terms under Presidents Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson.

The longest serving secretary was James Wilson who served under William McKinley, Theodore Roosevent and William Howard Taft from 1897-1913. “I have no idea how he lasted 16 years in this job,” joked Vilsack. Former and Current Ag Secretaries Dan Glickman and Tom Vilsack

Just recently when Eric Holder resigned from the White House cabinet, Vilsack was asked if there was any truth to the rumor that he would be the next to go. “They must be talking to my grandkids who occasionally ask when I’m coming home to Iowa,” said Vilsack. “Unless the president has different thoughts, I’m keeping the job I got because I’m not sure I can get another one.”Vilsack react to Holder resignation