A deputy executive director with the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs is in hot water after hanging a portrait of the Ku Klux Klan’s first grand wizard in his office, The Washington Post reported. David J. Thomas Sr., a career civil servant who serves in the department’s Office of Small and Disadvantaged Business Utilization, told the newspaper he had no idea the man in the portrait, noted Confederate Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest, was the white supremacist group’s first figurehead and only thought he was a “a Southern general in the Civil War.”