Events that have impacted the Executive Branch

1789 The First Federal Departments

1829 The Power of Patronage

1883 Passage of the Pendleton Act

1913 The Department of Labor Is Born

1936 The Brownlow Commission

1956 The Federal Interstate Highway System

1964 Building a Great Society

1981 The Era of Deregulation

1993 The National Performance Review

2002 The Department of Homeland Security