Some years back Richard Nixon warned the American peoplethat Russia was bad because she had not kept any treaty oragreement signed with her. You can trust the Communists, thesaying went, to be Communists.Indian people laugh themselves sick when they hear thesestatements. America has yet to keep one Indian treaty or agreementdespite the fact that the United States government signedover four hundred such treaties and agreements with Indiantribes. It would take Russia another century to make and breakas many treaties as the United States has already violated. . Vine Deloria Jr.
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In the 1920s American President, Calvin Coolidge stated that "You can trust the communists to be communists." He was referring to Soviet Russia's expansionist policies. The Indians held similar views of the Soviet Union. In 1946 Indian Prime Minister, Jawaharlal Nehru, stated that " If you can't trust the Russians, who can you trust?" In the United States the Cold War had been going on for a long time. The governments of both sides were constantly trying to outfox each other.

The United States government got involved in a lot of covert operations and was famous for spying on its citizens. In a famous quote by President John F. Kennedy, he said that "I would rather have a country without a government than have a government without a country."

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