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The ultimate result was the election of Mrs. Corazon Aquino as President, and Mr. Salvador Laurel as Vice President of the Philippines. When a subservient Parliament announced my opponent’s victory, the people then turned out in the streets, and proclaimed me the President of all the people.
Mar 21, 2017 · Speech before the joint session of the United States Congress - Sept. 18, 1986. Corazon Aquino. September 18, 1986— Washington, DC. Print friendly. Video. Speeches. Mr. Speaker, Senator Thurmond, Distinguished members of Congress. Three years ago I left America in grief, to bury my husband, Ninoy Aquino. I thought I had left it also, to lay ...
In the moving speech penned by her speechwriter (and our current ambassador to the United Nations) Teddy Locsin, Jr., Aquino defended her reconciliatory stand on the communist insurgency—a sensitive issue in the U.S., given that this was 1986—and asked for financial aid towards rebuilding the Philippine economy.
1) The speaker, Corazon Aquino, is the first female president of the Philippines. She discusses the death of her husband Ninoy Aquino, who was assassinated after speaking out against the dictatorship. 2) Ninoy's death sparked a revolution and widespread protests that led to the overthrow of the dictatorship.
Corazon Aquino delivers a speech to the United States Congress three years after the death of her husband Ninoy Aquino. She discusses how his assassination led to the downfall of the dictatorship in the Philippines and her rise to power as the first female president.
1) The document is a transcript of a speech given by Corazon Aquino, President of the Philippines, to the United States Congress in 1986. She discusses how her husband Ninoy Aquino was imprisoned and assassinated by the former dictator, which sparked the People Power Revolution that led to democracy in the Philippines.
Aug 2, 2009 · video of President Corazon Aquino of the Philippines addressing US Congress in 1986 (just the standing ovation and final statement)
