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    President Corazon Aquino delivered a historic speech before the US Congress in September 1986, shortly after replacing the dictator Ferdinand Marcos as president of the Philippines. In her speech, Aquino appealed for US financial aid to help rebuild the Philippine economy, which was struggling with $26 billion in foreign debt accrued under Marcos' rule. The speech was very effective, receiving several standing ovations, and helped sway Congress to approve $200 million in emergency aid for the Philippines.

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    President Corazon Aquino delivered a historic speech before the US Congress in September 1986, shortly after replacing the dictator Ferdinand Marcos as president of the Philippines. In her speech, Aquino appealed for US financial aid to help rebuild the Philippine economy, which was struggling with $26 billion in foreign debt accrued under Marcos' rule. The speech was very effective, receiving several standing ovations, and helped sway Congress to approve $200 million in emergency aid for the Philippines.

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    President Corazon Aquino delivered a historic speech before the US Congress in September 1986, shortly after replacing the dictator Ferdinand Marcos as president of the Philippines. In her speech, Aquino appealed for US financial aid to help rebuild the Philippine economy, which was struggling with $26 billion in foreign debt accrued under Marcos' rule. The speech was very effective, receiving several standing ovations, and helped sway Congress to approve $200 million in emergency aid for the Philippines.

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    Revisiting Cory Aquino’s

    Historic 1986 Speech Before


    The US Congress
    Readings in Philippine History

    Group 8
    Members:
    Czarina Pauline Galicia Co
    Helen Gail Embudo
    Joe Belle
    Jan Angelo B. Bermas
    Perspective of the Author
     MARIA CORAZON COJUANGCO-AQUINO
    o 11th president (and the first female president) of the Philippines
    o Born on January 25, 1933 in Tarlac, Philippines
    o Graduated from the College of Mount St. Vincent in New York in 1953, with a
    bachelor’s degree in both French and Mathematics
    o Widow of Senator Benigno Simeon Aquino Jr.
    o Was widely accredited as the “Mother of Asian Democracy”
    o Presidential term: February 25, 1986 – June 30, 1992

    o As a victim of Marco’s cruel regime


    o As the faithful wife of Senator Benigno Aquino
    o As the People’s Champion and Mother of Asian Democracy
    Context

     When former President Corazon Aquino spoke before a joint session of the United
    States Congress in September of 1986, the dust was only beginning to settle. It was her
    first visit to America since the dictator Ferdinand Marcos had been deposed in February of
    the same year, and the Philippines was reckoning with everything his administration had
    inflicted. That included $26 billion in total foreign debt, and a communist insurgency that
    grew, throughout the Marcos era, from 500 armed guerillas to 16,000.
     ”We were just at the start of a long road to recovery.”
     So Aquino lodged an appeal for help. Addressing the House, she delivered a historic
    speech that managed to sway in our favor the vote for an emergency $200-million aid
    appropriation. 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.
    Content Analysis
     "We fought for honor, and, if only for honor, we shall pay," she said,
    agreeing to pay the debt that was stolen by Marcos. "And yet, should we
    have to wring the payments from the sweat of our men’s faces and sink all
    the wealth piled up by the bondsman’s two hundred fifty years of
    unrequited toil?"
     The speech was impassioned, deeply personal, and effective; interrupted
    11 times by applause and bookended with standing ovations. House
    Speaker Tip O'Neill called it the "finest speech I've ever heard in my 34 years
    in Congress." Senate Majority Leader Robert Dole told her, "Cory, you hit a
    home run." And House Minority Whip Trent Lott said, "Let's just say the
    emotion of the moment saved the day." It would go down in the annals of
    our history as one of the former President's finest speeches.

    Taken from an article written in 2018, from


    Esquire Magazine PH
    QUIZ
    1. How many times did
    Cory and her children lost
    Ninoy during the Marcos
    Administration?
    2. When and where did
    the delivery of speech
    (Cory Aquino) happen?
    3. Give at least one
    perspective of the author
    4. How much was the
    country’s foreign debt
    after Marcos’ Presidency?
    5. President Corazon
    Aquino is considered or
    regarded as
    ____________________.

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