Secrecy appeals to leaders of nation that value openness and accountability. The power to withhold, leak, and lie about information seems fleeting when the information is publicly revealed. "If you only know what we know" remarks are tempting for officials. The power to withhold and leak leads to the power to lie. Examples of this were found in President Eisenhower's CIA actions, President Kennedy's Bay of Pigs and Vietnam actions, President Johnson's Vietnam operations, and President Nixon's Cambodia bombing. Between 1965 and 1975, the number of US citizens who believed their government was lying had greatly increased because of the government's secrecy system. Perhaps the United States would have benefited from leaks about the CIA in the 1950s, the Bay of Pigs operation, war crimes in Vietnam, and wars in Laos and Cambodia by avoiding those disasters.