Her reputation as an accomplished political arm of Marcos during the campaign was well deserved, and the President-elect conceded that she was responsible for a million votes, the margin that made him

To the public at large, and at a safe distance, she did exude the confidence and poise of an heiress. But as with the image of Marcos, there were flaws in Imelda’s media image. Manila is a small city.

They kept faith and waited anxiously for the day when the country would have leaders brave and bold enough to break away from the onerous special relationship with America. Paradoxically, it seemed such

The next morning I sent for the chief engineer of the War Department, and I told him to put the Philippines on the map of the United States, and there they are, and there they will stay while I am President!”

Most Americans, and especially those who were in a position to alter the course of history, had allowed themselves to be deluded by their own subterfuges in holding on to the Philippines, belaboring the

In the crowd were United States Vice-President Hubert Humphrey, Prime Minister Chung Il-kwon of Korea, Foreign Minister Thanat Khoman of Thailand, and Prime Minister Kishi Nobusuke of Japan. Mr. Humphrey’s

It was said that Imelda, mindful of tradition and family ties, chose him for the occasion. He was the former rector of the Divine Word University in Leyte, where Imelda had been a student and where her

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PROLOGUE The Chink in the Image IN THE EARLY MORNING of December 30, 1965, a few hundred Filipinos milled around the suburban residence of President-elect Ferdinand E. Marcos. They came in all manner of