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November 25, 2002 HOMELAND SECURITY ACT OF 2002 With passage of the Homeland Security Act of 2002, Congress created the Department of Homeland Security and the new cabinet-level posion of secretary of Homeland Security. The law instuted the largest reorganiza- on of the execuve branch since the Department of Defense was created by the Naonal Security Act of 1947. The Department of Homeland Security devised this advisory scale of terrorist alerts. 2003 KANSAS REPLACES STATUE IN NATIONAL STATUARY HALL COLLECTION This statue of Dwight D. Eisenhower replaces one of G.W. Glick, a 19th-century governor of Kansas; it was the first me a statue in the collecon was replaced by another. Eisenhower (1890-1969) aendedWest Point and rose through the army ranks as a staff officer; in June 1942, he commanded U.S. forces in the European Theater ofWWII before taking command for the invasion of France. Aer the war, he spent a year as president of Columbia University and then commanded NATO's forces. His widespread popularity facilitated his elecon as president, and he remained popular aer leaving office. Dwight D. Eisenhower by JimBrothers 34 THE CAPITOL DOME DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY ARCHITECT OF THE CAPITOL