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Position: Secretary

The secretary is the civilian head of the Department of Homeland Security, and is primarily responsible for the integration of 22 different agencies all working to protect Americans and defend the U.S. within its borders. The secretary works with more than 180,000 employees from these agencies in order to strengthen U.S. borders, provide intelligence analysis and infrastructure protection, improve the use of science and technology to counter weapons of mass destruction, create a comprehensive response and recovery division. The director of homeland defense develops and coordinates a comprehensive national strategy to strengthen the U.S. against terrorist threats or attacks. The secretary is an important advisor to the president and works closely with other governmental agencies.

Type of Appointment/Position: Presidential with Senate confirmation    

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Nominee's Background:

Family background:

Morris Seligman Dees, Jr. was born in Shorter, Alabama, in 1936.

Professional background:

* Co-founder/chief trail counsel, Southern Poverty Law Center (1971-present) * Founder, Fuller and Dees Marketing Group (mid-1950s)

Education:

* B.A., University of Alabama * J.D., University of Alabama School of Law (1960)

Member of the following boards of directors:

* The Gleitsman Foundation

Partial list of awards:

* Humanitarian Award, University of Alabama (1993) * Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Award, National Education Association (1990) * Trial Lawyer of the Year, Trail Lawyers for Public Justice (1987) * Ten Outstanding Young Men of America, U.S. Jaycees (1966) * Star Farmer of Alabama, Alabama Future Farmers of America (1955)

Publications:

* A Season for Justice * Hate on Trail: The Case Against America's Most Dangerous Neo-Nazi * Gathering Storm: America's Militia Threat

Quotations:

"We're involved in a war in Afghanistan, Iraq, Kosovo and other places in the world where we're trying to impose our values of freedom and democracy on people who don't understand or accept our values. And we're involved in a war here at home, and that's a battle over whose America this is going to be."

Speech at Western Kentucky University

Nominated by: Progressive Government Institute

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