On March 27, 1986, while giving , Kerry mentioned he was in Cambodia on a swift boat around Christmas, 1968, during the Vietnam War. During that encounter, Kerry said he was shot at by Vietnamese and Khmer Rouge Cambodians, while the President had told the American people that U.S. military personnel were not in Cambodia. According to the Boston Globe biography of Kerry, he later recalled that after the Christmas Eve incident, he began to develop a deep mistrust of U.S. government pronouncements.