Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge

September 2, 2003

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September 2, 2003

Less than two weeks after the Sept. 11 attacks, Tom Ridge left his job as governor of Pennsylvania and went to Washington to direct a governmental startup project that has become a sprawling bureaucratic empire: the Department of Homeland Security. Ridge joins NPR's Neal Conan on Talk of the Nation. Review previous NPR coverage.

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Jan. 24, 2003: Ridge is sworn in as secretary of the Department of Homeland Security Jan. 24, 2003

July 24, 2002: NPR's Madeleine Brand talks to Ridge about the status of the proposed Department of Homeland Security. July 24, 2002

Nov. 26, 2002: President Bush nominates Ridge to be the first secretary of the new Department of Homeland Security. NPR's Bob Edwards talks to Ridge. Nov. 26, 2002

Oct. 8, 2001: Ridge is sworn in as the head of the Office of Homeland Security.

April 29, 2003: Ridge speaks before the National Press Club

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Ridge was Time magazine's person of the week in November 2002.