11.   Keating was president of Phoenix-based American Continental Corp., the parent company of Lincoln Savings and Loan.

12.   Keating is a Roman Catholic who opposes abortion, and he is a former FBI agent.

13.   Keating is free and bitter, and government regulators say they are wiser.

14.   Keating was born in Savannah, Ga., and attended Benedictine College in Savannah and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

15.   Keating was one of the breed who transformed the industry, using deposits to fuel federally insured rockets.

16.   Keating himself was defeated six years later by Robert Kennedy.

17.   Levine said if Keating was intent on offering free college, he could push legislation in Oklahoma to offer free state university schooling to any survivors of the explosion.

18.   Many of them felt that Keating was too conservative and not impressive enough to win over independent and swing voters.

19.   McCain later explained that he thought it was the right thing to do, because Keating was a constituent.

20.   McCain had only reluctantly attended the two meetings with regulators, in part because Keating was a large employer in his state.