american – HistoryTopic

Watergate is a scandal, even a corruption

January 15, 2022

Unlike corruption in the form of embezzlement, bribery and misappropriation of public funds, there is another type of corruption abroad – political corruption. In political corruption, those who wield political power do not necessarily steal state property or accept bribes from businessmen, but still meet the definition of corruption as “using public power for private …

Project Apollo

January 13, 2022

Background The Apollo program was proposed in the early 1960s during the Eisenhower administration as a successor to the Mercury program. The Mercury program used a spacecraft that could only go into Earth orbit and carry only one astronaut, whereas the Apollo spacecraft was envisioned to carry not only three astronauts, but perhaps the moon …