Pres. Kennedy's of the Union speeches: on Crime


New weapons to combat organized crime

A strong America depends on its cities--America's glory, and sometimes America's shame. To substitute sunlight for congestion and progress for decay, we have stepped up existing urban renewal and housing programs, and launched new ones--redoubled the attack on water pollution--speeded aid to airports, hospitals, highways, and our declining mass transit systems--and secured new weapons to combat organized crime, racketeering, and youth delinquency, assisted by the coordinated and hard-hitting efforts of our investigative services: the FBI, the Internal Revenue, the Bureau of Narcotics, and many others. We shall need further anti-crime, mass transit, and transportation legislation--and new tools to fight air pollution. And with all this effort under way, both equity and commonsense require that our nation's urban areas--containing three-fourths of our population--sit as equals at the Cabinet table. I urge a new Department of Urban Affairs and Housing.
Source: Pres. Kennedy's 1962 State of the Union message to Congress Jan 11, 1962

  • The above quotations are from Pres. Kennedy's of the Union messages to Congress, 1961-1963.
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Dr.Ben Carson(MD)
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V.P.Joe Biden(DE)
Gov.Martin O`Malley(MD)
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Sen.Jim Webb(VA)

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Roseanne Barr(PF-HI)
Robert Steele(L-NY)
Dr.Jill Stein(G,MA)
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