His Views...
ON CRIME
The first thing I would do as President is to make an announcement that I'd give my Moral Support as President to the policemen of this country and to the firemen of the country. I'd say, "We stand behind you because you are the thin line between complete anarchy in the streets and the physical safety of our person."
ON VIETNAM
...I think the first thing we ought to do in this country is to impress upon Hanoi and Peking and Moscow the resolve of the American people. These few people today who are out advocating sedition and raising money and clothes and supplies
for the Viet Cong -- these college professors who are making speeches advocating
victory for the Viet Cong Communists -- I would deal with these people as they ought to
be dealt with, as traitors.
Semantically very similar to the rhetoric of today's neocons- but actually first appeared in the campaign brochure (pdf file) of civil rights opponent George Wallace during his 1968 presidential run.
I stumbled across this while looking at election returns from my home state of North Carolina over the last 60 years and was surprised to find that Wallace had won a great deal of the state. Of course, once I read the platform and became a little more informed about him my shock went away. However, it did become apparent that there were some similarities here.
Something else this George has in common with "our" George: he's a big overture with a little show:
The sad fact is that from first to last, despite the sound and the fury of Wallace's campaigning, little changed for the good in Alabama with his help. Throughout all his years in office, Alabama rated near the bottom of the states in per capita income, welfare, and spending on schools and pupils.
I put this up not to insinuate George '43 is a segregationist or any of that- merely to draw attention to the parralells between two eras of fear.