Ironically no president we have had would have regretted more than President Eisenhower the possibility to which his own words, in the press conference held at the beginning of August, testified: that unable as he was himself to say his running was best for the country, unconsciously he had placed his party before his nation.

Many prominent figures testified in that trial, including members of the parliamentary committee investigating the reasons for the defeat, so some of its results were made public long before the publication of the committee report in 1928.

On May 5, 1993, Gregory M. Herek, associate research psychologist at the University of California at Davis and an authority on public attitudes toward lesbians and gay men, testified before the House Armed Services Committee on behalf of several professional associations.

On June 24, 2008, Lucas testified before the United States House of Representatives subcommittee on Telecommunications and the Internet as the head of his Foundation to advocate for a free wireless broadband educational network.

Neal Patrick testified before the U. S. House of Representatives on September 26, 1983 about the dangers of computer hacking, and six bills concerning computer crime were introduced in the House that year.

In 1964, just days before Hoover testified in the earliest stages of the Warren Commission hearings, President Lyndon B. Johnson waived the then-mandatory U. S. Government Service Retirement Age of seventy, allowing Hoover to remain the FBI Director " for life.

Thomas testified that she does not have a Kazaa account, but her testimony was complicated by the fact that she had replaced her computer's hard drive after the alleged downloading took place, and later than she originally said in a deposition before the trial.

U. S. Assistant Secretary of State for Africa Chester Crocker testified before Congress that the election was imperfect but that at least it was a step toward democracy.

In testimony before the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations a former US State Department official who had been a member of the American Commission at Paris, testified that the United Kingdom and France had simply gone ahead and arranged the world to suit themselves.

In 1987, DuPont testified before the US Congress that " we believe that there is no immediate crisis that demands unilateral regulation.

Both Clinton and Lewinsky were called before a grand jury ; Clinton testified via closed-circuit television, Lewinsky in person.

In August 1977, the Chairman of the Democratic Party of Puerto Rico, Franklin Delano López, testified before the UN Decolonization Committee denouncing the colonial nature of the Commonwealth Status.

When the council met, three cardinals appeared before it and testified to the orthodoxy and morality of the dead pope.

CMD's executive director, Lisa Graves ( a former Deputy Assistant Attorney General at the U. S. Department of Justice ), has testified several times before Congress on national security, homeland security, and civil liberties issues, joined in legal briefs on such issues, and her analysis has been published by the Texas Law Review and in numerous other articles.

Asked to appear before a Joint Committee of the U. S. House and Senate that year, he testified on his belief that spin-offs from space technology were benefiting the infirm and the elderly.

The operator of the Dreamland Motel testified that two Ryder trucks had been parked outside her Grandview Plaza motel where McVeigh stayed in Room 26 the weekend before the bombing.

In April 1933, Willkie testified against the TVA legislation before the Military Affairs Committee in the House of Representatives.

Given Rickover's single-minded focus on naval nuclear propulsion, design and operations, it came as a surprise to many when in 1982, near the end of his career, he testified before the U. S. Congress that, were it up to him, he " would sink them all.

Protagonist Terry Malloy's ( Brando's ) fight against corruption was in part modeled after whistle-blowing longshoreman Anthony DiVincenzo, who testified before a real-life Waterfront Commission on the facts of life on the Hoboken Docks and had suffered a degree of ostracism for his deed.

Bradley Belt, former executive director of the PBGC ( the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation, the federal agency that insures private-sector defined-benefit pension plans in the event of bankrupment ), testified before a congressional hearing in October 2004, “ I am particularly concerned with the temptation, and indeed, growing tendency, to use the pension insurance fund as a means to obtain an interest-free and risk-free loan to enable companies to restructure.

Atkins testified before the grand jury that she had been unable to stab Sharon Tate and that she was killed by Watson, a contradiction of statements she had made prior to her arrest.

MacArthur was called to appear before a special Congressional committee in 1901, where he testified against cadets implicated in hazing, but downplayed his own hazing even though the other cadets gave the full story to the committee.

Sophia was summoned before the commissioners, and testified that the child was hers.

Forrest testified before the Congressional investigation on Klan activities on June 27, 1871.

Also while in Washington, Doubleday testified against George Meade at the United States Congress Joint Committee on the Conduct of the War, criticizing him harshly over his conduct of the Battle of Gettysburg.

Wooden U-2 model-one of two used by Powers when he testified to the Senate Committee.

" In February 1969, Hollings testified as to what he had seen on his fact-finding tours in front of the Senate Select Committee on Hunger and Human Needs.

The hearings held by the Senate Committee, in which Dean and other former administration officials testified, were broadcast from May 17 to August 7, 1973.

In 1949, Governor Stevenson testified before the House Committee on Un-American Activities to defend Alger Hiss, a former high ranking State Department official who was later found to be a Soviet spy.

In July 1962 Glenn testified before the House Space Committee in favor of excluding women from the NASA astronaut program.

Sales, John M. Olin Fellow at Georgetown University Law Center, testified by written statement before the House Committee on the Budget on the constitutional issues in connection with the proposed legislation.

On August 3, 1948, Whittaker Chambers, a former Communist Party member, testified under subpoena before the House Committee on Un-American Activities ( HUAC ) that Hiss had secretly been a Communist while in federal service.

On July 11, 2000, McGuinn testified before in a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on downloading music from the Internet that artists do not always receive the royalties that ( non-Internet based ) record companies state in contracts, and that to date, The Byrds had not received any royalties for their greatest successes, " Mr. Tambourine Man " and " Turn, Turn, Turn " – they only received advances, which were split five ways and were just " a few thousand dollars " per band member.

After testifying on March 29 and April 4, Custer testified before the Banning Committee.

* William " Willie " Moretti ( 1894 – 1951 ), Mafia gangster who testified before the Anti-Crime Investigation Committee ( Kefauver Committee ) and was shot dead in a Cliffside Park, New Jersey restaurant.

On March 4, 1866, he testified before the US Congress and the Joint Committee on Reconstruction, saying the quality of leadership was integral to its success.

In 1951, a now-retired Major General Chennault testified and provided written statements to the Senate Joint Committee on Armed Forces and Foreign Relations, which was investigating the causes of the fall of China in 1949 to Communist forces.

The Investigative Project on Terrorism reported that on August 7, 2007, a Federal Bureau of Investigation ( FBI ) agent testified at the Holy Land Foundation trial that CAIR was " listed as a member of the Muslim Brotherhood's Palestine Committee ", that it had received money from the Foundation ( conflicting with Nihad Awad's Congressional testimony ), and that co-founders Awad and Omar Ahmad were " listed as individual members the Brotherhood Palestine Committee in America.

At a July 13, 2004, Senate Banking Committee hearing on the effects of the GLBA five years after passage, the Legislative Director of the Consumer Federation cited Roger Ferguson ’ s 2003 speech and stated the “ extravagant promises ” of universal banking had “ proven to be mostly hype .” He noted that advocates of repealing Sections 20 and 32 had said “ anks, securities firms, and insurance companies would merge into financial services supermarkets ” and, after five years, some mergers had occurred “ but mostly within the banking industry, not across sectors .” Within the banking industry, Federal Reserve Board Chairman Alan Greenspan testified to Congress in 2004 that commercial bank consolidation had “ slowed sharply in the past five years .”

Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner testified to the Joint Economic Committee that he opposed reenacting Glass-Steagall and that he did not believe “ the end of Glass-Steagall played a significant role ” in causing the financial crisis.

He was a man, those neighbors testified later, who didn't have a friend in the world.

Corbett later testified for the prosecution in the trial of the commandant of Andersonville, Captain Henry Wirz.

An Indian POW, Lance Naik Hatam Ali ( later a citizen of Pakistan ), testified that in New Guinea: " the Japanese started selecting prisoners and every day one prisoner was taken out and killed and eaten by the soldiers.

Police detective Bryn Ridge testified that he later lost those blood scrapings taken from the walls and tiles of the restroom.

He was arrested and later testified in court that she threatened him and he defended himself.

She later testified that she experienced her first vision around 1424 at the age of 12 years, when she was out alone in a field and saw visions of figures she identified as Saint Michael, Saint Catherine, and Saint Margaret, who told her to drive out the English and bring the Dauphin to Reims for his coronation.

As Fuchs later testified, after Nazi Germany invaded the Soviet Union in 1941 he concluded that the Soviets had a right to know what the United Kingdom ( and later the United States ) were working on in secret.

Fuchs later testified that he passed detailed information on the project to the Soviet Union through a courier known as " Raymond " ( later identified as Harry Gold ) in 1945, and further information about the hydrogen bomb in 1946 and 1947.

Several blacks later testified that they even broke into occupied homes, ordering the inhabitants out into the street where they could be driven or forced to walk to detention centers.

Serpico survived, although partially deaf, testified to the Knapp Commission later that year and retired in 1972 on a disability pension, living abroad until his quiet return to the U. S. in 1980, when he moved upstate into an old fashioned cabin.

Between the 8th and 7th centuries BC the Spartans experienced a period of lawlessness and civil strife, later testified by both Herodotus and Thucydides.

The few prisoners who had worked in the Sonderkommandos and survived the camp later testified that victims frequently let out a final gasp of breath from their lungs when they were extracted from the gas chambers.

* Kee-too-way-how (‘ Sounding With Flying Wings ’, better known as Alexander Cayen dit Boudreau, Chief of the Parklands or Willow Cree at Muskeg Lake, born 1834 St. Boniface, Manitoba, son of Pierre Narcisse Cayen dit Boudreau and Adelaide Catherine Arcand (‘ Kaseweetin ’), though he was of Métis descent he became chief of the Willow Cree and the Métis, who were living with the Cree, brother of Petequakey (‘ Isidore Cayen dit Boudreau ’), lived along Duck Lake, signed 1876 Treaty 6 and settled in a reserve at Muskeg Lake-that was later named after his brother Petequakey-but left the reserve in 1880 and lived again in the following years close to St. Laurent de Grandin mission, played a prominent role during the Northwest Rebellion of 1885 in which he participated in every battle, served also as an emissary of the Métis leader Gabriel Dumont to ask the Assiniboine for support, on 23 May 1885 he also submitted the declaration of surrender of Pitikwahanapiwiyin (' Poundmaker ') to General Middleton, was captured on the 1st June 1885, in the subsequent trial of Kee-too-way-how at Regina, Louis Cochin testified that he and the carters in the camp of Pitikwahanapiwiyin survived only thanks to the intercession by Kee-way-too-how and its people, despite the positive testimony, he was on 14 August 1885 sentenced to imprisonment for seven years for his involvement in the Métis rebellion, died 1886 ).

McNamara later testified that he had read the message after his return to the Pentagon that afternoon.

Ike Clanton later testified at the Spicer hearing that Doc Holliday, Virgil Earp, Wyatt Earp, and Morgan Earp had all confided in him that they had actually been involved in the stage robbery.

Ike Clanton testified later he saw Virgil take his six-shooter out of his lap and stick it in his pants when the game ended.

Boyle later testified he noticed Ike was armed and covered his gun for him, recalling that Ike told him "' As soon as the Earps and Doc Holliday showed themselves on the street, the ball would open — that they would have to fight '...

Ike testified that he picked up the weapons from William Soule, the jailer, a couple of days later.

Cochise County Sheriff Johnny Behan, a friend to the Cowboys, later testified that he first learned of the trouble while he was getting a shave at the barbershop after 1: 30 pm, which is when he had risen after the late-night game.

Virgil testified later that Behan told them, " For God's sake, don't go down there or they will murder you!