Kennedy decided not to provide American military support at the last moment.
Also, if the bank does not get American support on the issue, the financial markets could lower the bank's credit standing.
But they are useful tools that could be made more effective through strong American support.
A major goal of that visit was to win black American support for his cause.
American support for Israel often got in the way of this larger goal.
Administration officials wonder, for example, whether American support will make it harder to bring about democratic change.
Why would the darlings of the left need American financial support?
There is a special bunch of people handling these things, and they've got American support at least, maybe a lot more.
The decision, with strong American support, was to continue and augment its program.
The truth is that there would not be much American support for a war in such a scenario.