51.   Gov. Frank Keating of Oklahoma attended the ceremony and gave Stradford an honorary executive pardon.

52.   He said he called the cardinal last month after students, faculty members and administrators began protesting plans for him to attend the ceremony.

53.   He hangs out around boxing halls and soccer matches and attends naturalization ceremonies hoping to politicize those who feel politics are irrelevant.

54.   He should be able to attend the ceremony.

55.   He was the only American who was healthy enough to attend the ceremony, his wife said.

56.   He will attend graduation ceremonies with his classmates Friday.

57.   Her adoptive mother did not attend the ceremony.

58.   His eldest son, David Bolles, recently attended ceremonies in Arlington, Va., honoring his father and other slain journalists.

59.   Hope, the first individual to have one of the airlifters named for him, attended the ceremony with his wife, Dolores.

60.   House Speaker Newt Gingrich did not attend the ceremony, but he issued a statement supporting the law and its goals.