Diosdado Macapagal
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Diosdado Pangan Macapagal Sr., also known colloquially as “Apung Dadong”, was the ninth president of the Philippines, serving from 1961 to 1965. He served as the 5th vice president from 1957 to 1961 u
Official portrait, 1962
Baptismal record of Diosdado Macapagal issued at the San Agustin Parish Church on October 12, 1910.
Diosdado Macapagal Birthplace House in Lubao, Pampanga, where Macapagal was born
Macapagal in his younger years
Ferdinand Marcos
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Ferdinand Emmanuel Edralin Marcos Sr. was a Filipino lawyer, dictator, and kleptocrat who served as the tenth president of the Philippines from 1965 to 1986. From 1972 to 1981, Marcos ruled the Philip
Diosdado Macapagal
…declared the independence of the First Philippine Republic from the Spanish Empire in 1898. He stood for re-election in 1965 but was defeated by Ferdinand Marcos. Under Marcos, Macapagal was elected president of the 1970 constitutional convention that would later draft what became the 1973 Constitution, though…
Marcos in 1982
Marcos (pictured here with Lady Bird Johnson, his wife Imelda, and Lyndon B. Johnson) maintained strong relations with the United States during the Cold War.
September 24, 1972, issue of the Sunday edition of the Philippine Daily Express
Marcos on a visit to the United States in 1982