Davis claimed Francis had praised her courage and told her to "stay strong" - a statement widely considered to be a display of support.
Mr. Gore has said he had only learned of the fund-raising after the fact, a statement widely doubted by critics of the administration.
The word comes just weeks after Houston-based Continental said it was not interested in pursuing a merger, a statement widely viewed as a rebuff of United.
The statement, widely criticised by MPs and national media, said: "These recent incidents highlight the fact that current strategies to deal with the threat of terrorism are not working.
But no American president had explicitly endorsed the 1967 line before.Mr Obama had barely finished his speech before Mr Netanyahu, about to take off for Washington, issued a furious statement, widely and promptly echoed across the American spectrum.
The campaign wants to avoid a repetition of its first hasty response to the attack, when Mr. Romney accused the administration of apologizing to protesters, a statement widely criticized as irresponsible.
The president's top military adviser, General Jorge Armando Félix, gave warning in a newspaper interview that the archives contained embarrassing tales of philandering by the regime's opponents, a statement widely interpreted as attempted blackmail.
Before Rosh Hashana last year, the cardinal issued a characteristic expression of sorrow for wrongs that he and fellow Catholics had done to the Jewish people, a statement widely publicized and welcomed by Jewish leaders.
Mr. Suleiman released a statement — widely reported on state television and instantly a focal point in Washington — declaring that the meeting had produced a "consensus" about a path to reform, including the promise to form a committee to recommend constitutional changes by early March.
At one point, on the eve of Super Tuesday in March, Mr. Bush even told The San Francisco Chronicle "yes, I would consider meeting with them" -- a statement widely publicized in other news media as a change of heart, though once the primaries had safely passed it was never acted upon.
