I don't see the connection.
How does lying about the Vietnam war tie into NASA being a fraud? Is everything that happened during those administrators a lie as well because they covered up this secret war?
These were not good people. They are not trustworthy. If they are willing to conduct a secret war then is is certainly no leap that they are willing to create some fake space achievements. The credibility is shot.
Which ones exactly were the corrupt individuals? The whole administration?
And if they're credibility was lost after the secret war cover up then is it a stretch to say that 3 administrations straight lied about everything they did?
I see where you're going with "if they lied about x then what else are they willing to cover up?" but I can't see that as an excuse to dismiss everything by default, including incidents that have nothing to do with each other (NASA and the Vietnam war).
What do you mean the Vietnam War had nothing to do with NASA? NASA was created as a direct consequence of the Cold War. After WWII there was a race to space between the US and USSR. The goal was to get weapons like ICBMs into earth orbit so that the range for total annihilation was unlimited. The US and USSR were in a race for the ability to nuke each other at the press of a button.
The Vietnam War and the Cold War were all part of the same conflict. Eisenhower believed that if one country fell into communism, more noncommunist countries would fall as well. When the Soviet Union bribed Vietnam to turn communist the US feared for the worse and decided to enter the war.
The Vietnam War was a Proxy War between the USA and USSR. The Soviets were allies with the Vietnamese, and so it was their duty to protect them. The Soviets were supplying Vietnam with ammunition, weapons, food, and support.
While the Vietnam War was the physical battle, the Cold War was the technological battle between the US and USSR behind the scenes, in which each country would try to "one up" each other with technological claims of superiority.
It should be noted that Russia went around
parading fake ICBMs for decades:
Moscow paraded dummy missiles
MANY OF the huge strategic missiles displayed in Red Square parades during the Soviet era were only dummies, but they scared the West into an expensive response, a Russian magazine reported yesterday.
One such fake, GR-1, an acronym for Global Missile, showed during a parade in 1965, prompted the United States to build an anti- missile defence system worth billions of dollars, said the weekly Vlast (Power). In fact, the Soviets had abandoned the GR-1 project long before the parade.
Another two mobile ballistic missiles shown in the same parade were also fakes, their test launches having been a failure, the magazine said. "Foreign military attaches were scared to death, triggering panic in Nato headquarters," it said. "A huge international uproar followed, and only those who prepared this demonstration knew they were dummies." One of the authors of the Vlast report worked as a missile engineer and said he had worked on a support system for one of the fake missiles to prevent it from bouncing on the stone-paved Red Square in Moscow. The magazine said the Soviet leader Nikita Krushchev first bluffed the West with the legend of powerful Russian missiles, saying the Soviet Union was making them "like sausage". "Such comparison sounded ambiguous for the Soviet people, because the sausage was in deficit, but it duly impressed foreigners," it said. At the time of Krushchev's comment, the Soviets had only four intercontinental ballistic missiles on duty, while the United States had 60. "The myth about the Soviet missile superiority was convenient for both the Soviet leadership and the American military industrial complex, which was getting huge contracts," the magazine said.
Another article on the subject:
http://www.cdi.org/russia/may1499.html#6There's also a book about their fake ICBM programs:
