The Benefits of Determination. Determination refers to a person's sense and firmness of purpose. It is a state of mind that keeps people going despite the challenges and obstacles that get in the way. Determination has brought to people success.
Starting in January 1987, Keating looked for help from what would become known as the Keating Five: Democratic U.S. Senators Alan Cranston of California, Dennis DeConcini of Arizona, John Glenn of Ohio, and Donald W. Riegle of Michigan, and Republican U.S. Senator John McCain of Arizona.
The irony of the Keating case is that McCain received the mildest ethics committee rebuke of the five senators in 1991, and was kept as a defendant because he was the only Republican. The special counsel in the case had recommended that McCain and one of the Democrats be dropped as defendants.