"Former Vice President Richard M. Nixon vowed Tuesday that if elected president, he would end the war in Vietnam." He didn't spell out how. Nixon was just one of the ways that the United States started losing their trust in their government. The U.S. started to lose trust around the time that President Nixon was elected, in 1969. Nixon promised a lot of things that never happened including ending the Vietnam War. He also kept a lot of secrets from the American public. After stating he had no secret plans for the war, he revealed a secret plan to stop the war few weeks later. After that point it would be hard for the U.S. citizens to regain their trust in the president. The government has pushed the U.S. into recessions and economic crisis. Americans started to lose trust in American policies because of war and the economy. Americans lost a lot of trust during war time. More specifically, the Vietnam war. As this particular war dragged on, Americans were learning that important information was being kept secret. This lack of information was causing them to lost trust. Not only in the purpose of the war, but in the Government and in the President. Nixon had no intention of ending the war until re-election. It was becoming apparent that Nixon was orchestrating the war to fit his re-election needs. News was leaked via the New York Times, that Nixon was continuing the war efforts with no intention of pulling out anytime soon. This altered Nixon's strategy, and the attitudes of Americans. Nixon declared, that he had no secrets going into the war. In 1968, Richard Nixon ran a platform for the presidency that included a "secret plan" to end the war in Vietnam. The "secret" was that he wasn't interested in what the nation wanted, but in what best served his purposes. North and South Vietnam signed a treaty to stop fighting. While at the same time the U.S. secretly said to South Vietnam that they would continue to bomb Hanoi if they didn't