We cannot test public opinion until the President and the leaders of the country have gone to the public to explain what is required and have asked them for support for the necessary action.

The President was especially concerned about the deadlock in the nuclear test ban negotiations at Geneva.

The defense also argued that the President reserved the right to test the constitutionality of an act of Congress, in good faith.

The President does however hold reserve powers, such as referring a bill to the Supreme Court to test its constitutionality, which are used under the president's discretion.

Toward this end, they arranged to meet with President Franklin Pierce to ensure that the issue would be declared a test of party loyalty within the Democratic Party.

; Referral of bills to the Supreme Court: The President may refer a bill, in whole or part, to the Supreme Court to test its constitutionality.

" On 9 July, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas approved Suha Arafat's request to exhume Arafat's body to test for abnormal amounts of polonium.

In 1978, President Daud Khan began to take initiatives for building the massive military after witnessing the India's nuclear test, Smiling Buddha, to counter Pakistan's armed forces and Iranian military influence in Afghanistan's politics.

The New York Times called it a " blueprint for disaster ", and Wisconsin senator Gaylord Nelson wrote to President Richard Nixon voicing his opposition: " It is a test of whether or not we are really committed in this country to protecting our environment.

President Bush makes remarks in 2006 during a press conference in the White House Rose Garden | Rose Garden about Iran's nuclear ambitions and discusses North Korea's nuclear test

Poland served as the first real test of the American President Roosevelt's Soviet policy of " giving " to Stalin assuming noblesse oblige, with Roosevelt telling Mikołajczyk before the visit, " Don't worry.

Recent bilateral activities between the United States and North Korea have included an April 2011 visit by former President Jimmy Carter, a July 2011 meeting between U. S. Special Representative for North Korea Policy Stephen Bosworth and North Korean First Vice Foreign Minister Kim Gye Gwan, and a February 2012 bilateral meeting in Beijing that resulted in an agreement to halt uranium enrichment in exchange for U. S. food aid ( which has now been cancelled due to North Korea's April 2012 long-range missile test ).

* Albert Loeb, lawyer and Vice President of Sears and Roebuck who built the Castle Farm test farm complex in Charlevoix.

The Whiskey Rebellion was the first severe test of the federal authority under the newly adopted U. S. Constitution and under President George Washington.

Eleanor was established in 1934, when President Franklin D. Roosevelt and first lady Eleanor Roosevelt visited the county and developed it as a test site for families.

It was a test of the authority of the President to suspend " the privilege of the writ of habeas corpus " under the Constitution's Suspension Clause.

However fate took a turn when the then Minister for Defence, Paddy Donegan, launched a ferocious verbal attack on President Cearbhall Ó Dálaigh, calling him " a thundering disgrace " for referring anti-terrorist legislation to the courts to test its constitutionality.

Jackson's concurring opinion in 1952's Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. v. Sawyer ( forbidding President Harry Truman's seizure of steel mills during the Korean War to avert a strike ), where Jackson formulated a three-tier test for evaluating claims of presidential power, remains one of the most widely cited opinions in Supreme Court history ( it was quoted repeatedly by Supreme Court nominees John Roberts and Samuel Alito during their confirmation hearings ).

The initial impetus behind the two-stage weapon was President Truman's 1950 promise to build a 10-megaton hydrogen superbomb as the U. S. response to the 1949 test of the first Soviet fission bomb.

After President John F. Kennedy set the goal in 1961 to put a man on the Moon by the end of the decade, this group was assigned the responsibility to lead the Apollo Program, and it became clear Gilruth would need a larger organization, with new test facilities and research laboratories suitable to mount an expedition to the Moon.

Prior to the purchase, President Harold Taylor played his clarinet in several of the rooms to test the acoustics.

" Note that the test of the constitutional functioning of the government was not required for the President to dissolve the National Assembly.

The CCAFS area had been used by the United States government since 1949 when President Harry S. Truman established the Joint Long Range Proving Grounds at Cape Canaveral to test missiles.

" South Korea's response to the nuclear test, although dampened by the recent death of its former President Roh Moo-hyun, included signing the Proliferation Security Initiative to prevent the shipment of nuclear materials to North Korea.

* 1967 – Astronauts Gus Grissom, Edward White and Roger Chaffee are killed in a fire during a test of their Apollo 1 spacecraft at the Kennedy Space Center, Florida.

* 1967 – Apollo program: NASA launches the unmanned Apollo 4 test spacecraft atop the first Saturn V rocket from Cape Kennedy, Florida.

* November 9 – Apollo program: NASA launches a Saturn V rocket carrying the unmanned Apollo 4 test spacecraft from Cape Kennedy.

Grissom was killed along with fellow astronauts Ed White and Roger Chaffee during a pre-launch test for the Apollo 1 mission at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station ( then known as Cape Kennedy ), Florida.

Before its planned February 21, 1967 launch, the Command Module interior caught fire and burned on January 27, 1967 during a pre-launch test on Launch Pad 34 at Cape Kennedy, killing all three men.

White died along with fellow astronauts Gus Grissom and Roger Chaffee during a pre-launch test for the first manned Apollo mission at Cape Kennedy.

Launch of Apollo 1 was planned for February 21, 1967, when the crew entered the spacecraft on January 27, mounted atop its Saturn IB booster on Launch Pad 34 at Cape Kennedy, for a " plugs-out " test of the spacecraft, which included a rehearsal of the launch countdown procedure.

Chaffee died along with fellow astronauts Gus Grissom and Ed White during a pre-launch test for the Apollo 1 mission at the then-Cape Kennedy Air Force Station, Florida, in 1967.

On January 27, 1967, Grissom, White and Chaffee were participating in a " plugs-out " countdown demonstration test at Cape Kennedy in preparation for the planned February 21 launch, when a fire broke out in the cabin, killing all three men.

On October 28, 2009, an Ares I-X test rocket lifted off from the newly modified Launch Complex 39B at Kennedy Space Center ( KSC ) for a two-minute powered flight ; then continued for four additional minutes traveling down range.

Later, he worked in the experimentation team, Orbiter test team, and launch support crew at the Kennedy Space Center for the STS-1 and STS-2.

In the aftermath of the January 1967 Apollo 1 disaster, NASA ’ s plan to incrementally test Saturn V and Apollo spacecraft components leading to the lunar landing had to be significantly revised in order to meet John F. Kennedy ’ s goal of reaching the Moon by the end of the decade.

By 1964, he had contracts to guard the Kennedy Space Center and the U. S. Atomic Energy Commission's nuclear test site in Nevada.

The mission was the first launch from the Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39, specifically built for the Saturn V. Since this was an all-up test, it was the S-IC first stage and S-II second stage's first launch.

Narz, who passed a lie-detector test at the time of the Dotto affair, had an extensive career as a game show host after the incident ( as did his brother Tom Kennedy ), retiring in 1982 ; he died in October 2008 after suffering two massive strokes.

It also served as a test to indirectly verify time dilation – while the negative result of the Michelson – Morley experiment can be explained by length contraction alone, the negative result of the Kennedy – Thorndike experiment requires time dilation in addition to length contraction to explain why no phase shifts will be detected while the earth moves around the sun.

Kennedy had already made several increasingly sophisticated versions of the MM experiment through the 1920s when he struck upon a way to test time dilation as well.

The methodology of Simonton's study was questioned by Thomas C. Reeves who refers to an actual IQ test by Kennedy with a score of 119.

By presenting the Commission with its own rulings in a May 29, 1961 petition, Kennedy was able to prompt it to do what it had promised in 1955, five years before the Boynton ruling was handed down, and six years before the Freedom Riders set out to test Boynton across the Deep South.

Hartsfield was the pilot on STS-4, the fourth and final orbital test flight of the Shuttle Columbia, which launched from Kennedy Space Center, Florida, on June 27, 1982.

In preparation for the first flight of Columbia ( STS-1 ) Bobko served as the lead astronaut in the test and checkout group at Kennedy Space Center.

Since then he has had various support assignments, including working at the Shuttle Avionics Integration Laboratory ( SAIL ) as a test pilot, and at the Kennedy Space Center participating in Orbiter test, checkout, launch and landing operations.