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The original documents are located in Box D28, folder "Fund-raising Dinner for
Representative Lawrence Hogan of Maryland, Washington, DC, March 17, 1970" of the
Ford Congressional Papers: Press Secretary and Speech File at the Gerald R. Ford
Presidential Library.
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Distribution : 20 copies Mr. Ford
House an Mail Falleries 12:15p.m. 3/17/20 office Copy
CONGRESSMAN
NEWS
GERALD R. FORD
HOUSE REPUBLICAN LEADER
RELEASE
--FOR RELEASE AT 6:30 P.M. TUESDAY--
March 17, 1970
Excerpts from a Speech by Rep. Gerald R. Ford, R-Mich., Republican Leader, U.S.
House of Representatives, at a fund-raising dinner for Rep. Lawrence Hogan,
R-Md., at the Sheraton Park Hotel, Washington, D. C.
No greater challenges face us as we move into the decade of the Seventies
than clearing the criminal from our streets and clearing the poisons and solid
waste from our environment.
There is no more deeply disturbing problem before this Nation today than
that of the ever-rising crime rate--and nowhere is that problem more pressing than
in the Nation's capital.
I am pleased to impress upon you here tonight that Congressman Larry Hogan
has been in the forefront of the fight against crime in the District of Columbia
and the Washington metropolitan area, just as he has been one of the foremost
fighters in the crusade to clean up our environment.
The House will soon have before it an Omnibus D.C. Crime Bill. Larry Hogan
helped to shape that bill. In fact he was the only Republican lawyer on the
subcommittee which drafted it and reported it out.
The bill that Larry Hogan helped draw up will restructure the D.C. courts,
create a vastly improved bail agency to supervise pretrial release of criminal
defendants, permit pretrial detention of dangerous hard-core repeat offenders,
establish a full-fledged public defender office to serve indigent adult and juvenile
offenders, and revise the D.C. Juvenile Procedures Code to update and improve the
handling of juvenile and family matters.
The Omnibus D.C. Crime Bill will give law enforcement officers and the courts
tools they sorely need to combat crime in the District of Columbia. It will
significantly improve the administration of justice in the Nation's capital.
Nearly every American city is experiencing a rising crime rate but in D.C.
the rate has soared far faster-until recently. I say "until recently" because
the Nixon Administration has given the D.C. Government a big assist on law
enforcement and that big lift has paid off in a falling crime rate over the last
few months. What the President did was to give D.C. extra funds to put an
additional 200 policemen on the streets each day by working regular officers on
their days off as overtime. Meantime the recruiting of added new policemen is
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going great, as Police Chief Jerry Wilson pushes toward higher authorized police
force strength.
This is the kind of action Larry Hogan has pressed for. He has been right
in there pitching. Larry will tell you, as I do now, that what happens in the
District of Columbia is vitally important to Prince Georges and Charles Counties
and all the Washington suburbs.
Let me tell you that street crime in D.C. is a first-hand problem for the
Congress--a problem of the greatest urgency. In addition, anti-crime techniques
being proposed for Washington have national significance. They might well serve as
models for the rest of the Nation.
I ask immediate action on lawlessness in the Nation's capital and I attach
the same sense of urgency to proposals the President has made for fighting street
crime and organized crime throughout the country.
The Democratic-controlled Congress let the first session slip by without
enacting any of the President's anti-crime proposals into law, but currently I
believe prospects are good for approval of at least some of the Nixon legislation
aimed at fighting crime in D.C. and throughout America.
Let me turn now to the problem of cleaning up our environment--making our
skies blue again, our waters clear again, and our land a better place in which to
live and grow.
This should not be a partisan issue. We are ready to move ahead in the
crusade for a clean America--and we will move ahead because we now have the leader-
ship we need to take a giant leap for all mankind.
We now have a President who is vigorously on the side of clean air, clean
water, and abundant recreational land, and that is what makes the difference as we
begin to pay for years of neglect.
For the first time in recent history we have a President who has called for
a national commitment to restore our environment and return to the day when our air
was pure, our water was clean, and our land was uncluttered.
Look now at Richard Nixon's 37-point program for cleaning up America, and
you see the difference. That difference is Presidential leadership.
This is the kind of leadership America cries out for as we move into the
leadership looking toward reform programs that will carry this Nation in
a New Direction. I believe the forward-looking programs proposed by the President
herald a new era of advancement, a decade of unparalleled progress.
A whole host of reforms still awaits Congressional action. The Congress
must get cracking on them.
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