Bush Taps Kerik to Head Homeland Security

By Pam Fessler

Published December 3, 2004 at 12:00 AM EST

President Bush formally announces the selection of former New York City police commissioner Bernard Kerik to succeed Tom Ridge as head of the Department of Homeland Security. Kerik would be the second person to head the two-year-old agency. NPR's Pam Fessler reports.

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